EMERY FEARS FOR LIFE

Prince Of Pot Will Use Bail Money To Fund Extradition Defence

Cannabis crusader Marc Emery warned yesterday that if the U.S. succeeds in
its bid to extradite him on drug and money laundering charges, "you will
never see me alive in Canada again."

Emery and co-accused Michelle Rainey-Fenkarek and Greg Smith sat
emotionless in bullet-proof cubicles at the B.C. Supreme Court as Associate
Chief Justice Patrick Dohm agreed to the cash-strapped activists' request
to use $15,000 bail money to fund a defence team and set Sept. 16th as
their trial's start date.

Emery, who was arrested in Halifax by the RCMP on July 29th following an
18-month investigation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, is
accused of selling marijuana seeds to Americans through mail and the
Internet, conspiracy to manufacture marijuana and conspiracy to engage in
money laundering, charges which could net him life in prison.

Speaking later on the courthouse steps, the self-proclaimed Prince of Pot
said: "The DEA coming and spiriting me away to spend the rest of my life in
prison has to be the most outrageous assault on sovereignty in the history
of the Canadian nation.

"If a person like me can be spirited away, no one is safe."

Emery estimated he had made $4 million from his Vancouver based seed
business over the past 11 years.

But he said the bail request was necessary because he had donated money to
rallies, clinics and political organizations and his magazine and
television enterprises had been damaged by fear of the DEA crackdown.

"I never kept a cent," he said.