SUPPORTERS OF POT ACTIVIST RAISE MONEY FOR LAWYER

Supporters of jailed marijuana activist Marc Emery hosted a 24-hour
fundraiser yesterday aimed at raising legal fees to push for his
return to Canada.

By midday, the initial target of $8,500 had been raised.

Emery was sentenced to five years in a Seattle prison last month after
being convicted of selling pot seeds by mail order and over the phone,
which amounts to drug trafficking under U.S. law.

His supporters, including his wife Jodie Emery, have been rallying
ever since to have him returned to Canada to serve his time here.

Jodie Emery told a Vancouver radio station yesterday that all the
money Emery has made from seed sales over the years has gone toward
court challenges and other pro-pot crusades.

She claimed he had just $11 in his bank account when he was locked up
in mid-September.