KEEP 'PRINCE OF POT' IN CANADA

As we all know, the famed marijuana activist, known as the 'Prince of
Pot' (Marc Emery), is facing extradition from Canada to the United
States for distributing marijuana seeds via the Internet.

But the Canadian government has been aware of Emery's
seed-distribution company and its activities since 1999 when he first
started it. Both the federal and the B.C. governments received
personal income-tax revenue from Emery totalling $578,000 from 1999 to
2005, all of which was explicitly from the sale of marijuana seeds.

It even said 'marijuana-seed vendor' on his tax returns.

Also, when former MP Svend Robinson (then acting as the NDP health
critic) asked Health Canada where medical marijuana patients could
obtain seeds from, they told him to tell the patients that they could
obtain seeds on the Internet.

Obviously, if the Canadian government was informed of Emery's actions
to the point of recommending medical marijuana patients obtain seeds,
then obviously it is not a crime to sell marijuana seeds in Canada.

My question is now, why should a Canadian citizen be allowed to be
extradited to a foreign nation to face a prison term for an action
that is evidently not even a crime in our own country?

In my opinion, if the Government of Canada allows Emery to be
extradited to the United States, then that would be an infringement on
Canada's sovereignty and a slap in the face of all Canadians!

Malcolm Klimowicz