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Marc Emery's Extradition Proceedings Postponed

Mon, Jan 21, 2008 3:33 pm


VANCOUVER - Extradition proceedings against Marc Emery, Vancouver's self-styled Prince of Pot, set for Monday were postponed.

The B.C. Supreme Court put over until tomorrow the hearing at which time the proceedings are expected to be adjourned until Feb. 6 while negotiations and details of a plea bargain are worked out.

US federal prosecutors have charged Emery and two associates - Michelle Rainey and Greg Williams - with drug offences and money laundering for operating a global marijuana seed business.

All face a minimum 10-year sentence and the possibility of life if convicted in the U.S.

But under the proposed deal, Emery would plead guilty and apparently serve a minimum of five years behind bars, mostly in Canada.

In return, he is demanding the charges against his friends be dropped.

Assistant US Attorney Todd Greenberg in Seattle, where Emery was indicted in 2005, has so far declined to comment.

He was unavailable Monday because of the public holiday in the U.S.


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Re: Richard

Jan 28 2008, 10:45 am

Actually that idea is being promoted by MPP. NORML is against it...

Richard Schimelfenig

Jan 27 2008, 10:53 pm

It would be wonderful, in fact I believe it to be essntial, that everyone who spoke out to end prohibition should use thier real names. Until your neigbors and friends accept that you are normal, yet chose to consume cannabis, legalization will never come (unless it is through some horrible compromiser legislation that ends up leaving more people criminals than it actually helps, or creates an unbearable circumstance like requiring anyone who drives to be subjected to cannabis testing and arrest - an idea presently being promoted, Benedict Arnold style by NORML).

FATTY IS BACK!!!!!!

Jan 24 2008, 11:29 pm

The U.S THUGS (DEA) MUST STAY OUT OF OTHER COUNTRIES AFFAIRS!!!!! I am sick of the bull-shit from the dictator GB and his hang-men! It's time to stop them and take this country back!

Free the man and his weed Canada! Stop being pussies and tell the u.s to fuck-off!!

Legalize now!!!!!!

shark

Jan 24 2008, 11:43 am

I know a guy who works in customs at Ohara airport and he told me when they find seeds they just dispose of them and maybe send a letter that thay found your seeds.I know another guy who ordered mushrooms from holland and they took the shrooms and wrote him a letter that was a year ago,still he never got in trouble.Marc Emery is no kingpin he lives in a modest apartment and does not live the lavish lifesyle of a drud lord!he is being made out to be a villin for standing up for what he and millions of other know is not wrong.YOU CAN GET SEEDS ANYPLACE!what a waste of time and money!JP RASTA

jp yacavino

Jan 24 2008, 11:33 am

right on calykid,the us gov never admits they're wrong,they still have people thinking its the demon drug that makes people sex crazed,psycotic and ect.hard working americans lives get ruined from smoking this harmless weed,but beer and wiskey are legal.people dont steal for weed or go home and beat their wife after smoking weed.alchol does kill people who dont even use it.you would have to eat 5 pounds of weed to die and its impossable to consume 5pounds!

purplecalyxkid

Jan 23 2008, 6:43 pm

FREE THE BC THREE, THE US GOV WILL NEVER ADMIT THEY'RE WRONG!NOT ABOUT IRAQ OR ANYTHING ELSE,Alchol is legal and kills people who dont even use it!pot does lead to harder things like grad school!what a waste of time and money!there were killer seeds in the us when marc emery was still shiting yellow!what a joke this country is anymore!the kind is everywhere and always will be!screw people like chris moresko and all the other alcholic anti pot idiots out there!!!!!!!!!!

~joker'

Jan 23 2008, 4:26 pm

I had no shoes, and I felt sorry for myself until I met a man with no feet.
I took his shoes. Now I feel better.

potsa22

Jan 23 2008, 1:09 pm

smoking weed is fun! keep it illegal and it will stay fun!! :-)

Richard Schimelfenig

Jan 23 2008, 11:37 am

"Sensible Person" proves to be not so sensible.

First (not that I am free of guilt) you are sustituting gutter language for meanignful dialog. That indicates that you have nothing constructive to add.

Second, America regularly ignores people in other countries who break US law. For example, they know that companies profiting from NAFTA are also making profit from smuggling, but they do as little as possible to stop it, and no one in the upper levels ever gets charged.

They know that many companies are shipping tainted foods and other tainted goods into the U. S., and they know who these companies are for the most part.

Going after Marc Emery could not have less to do with the seeds he sold, but clearly has everything to do with the fact that he distributed that profit to activists and organizations to fight prohibition.

The proof is that there are dozens of companies all over the world who to this moment ship seeds into the U. S. and have been. The piggies are not doing anything to extradite them.

SP, I do not buy your rant. This is all about politics and not whether Marc shipped seeds into the U. S.

sensible person

Jan 23 2008, 10:31 am

Redolf, you are an idiot. Whether or not it was legal in his country doesnt matter, he was breaking our laws by shipping it into our country. And, again dipshit, the customs dept doesnt handle food coming into the country, nor does it test for lead coming into the country in the paint of toys.

?

Jan 23 2008, 7:59 am

Any news yet?

potsa22

Jan 22 2008, 11:15 am

canada is our friend and we need to treat them as such. because emery is already in trouble with his own government, the US should make an exception and let him be dealt with by the canadian government.

1229

Jan 22 2008, 10:41 am

1228> What's in your mind is reality, it's in all of our minds, guess not yours.

1228

Jan 22 2008, 9:29 am

j/fli-That bullshit is all in your mind...Fool

Re: Redwolf

Jan 22 2008, 6:27 am

lets keep in mind that it IS a law against it in Canada , though not regularly enforced . Just posting a fact .

Jason From Long Island

Jan 22 2008, 6:26 am

When I first found a cannabis culture magazine, I thought "no way!?" I later found out that indeed Marc Emery was a legitimate cannabis business man. Cannabis has helped me in so many ways that i can't even begin to name them. The only way cannabis has affected my life negativly is economically. Marijuana is more expensive than gold, yet illegal. I substance that IS NOT TOXIC AT ALL, A SUBSTANCE WHICH HEALS THOSE THAT CONSUME IT, A SUBSTANCE WHICH iS THE PERFECT WAY TO ENhANCE ONES LIFE without HARSH TOXIC SIDE EFFECTS. Marc Emery I love you man and will always remember all the many episodes of POT TV with my favorite cannabis user MARIJUANA MAN! I found you first before any of my friends, and without me they would have never seen POT TV. Importing marijuana seeds to the United States may be illegal, but that doesn't make it a correct law. Its a corupt/fearful law that the gov't of the united states was forced to enact upon its people because of the wide spread distribution of heroin, opium, and cocaine back in the late 1800's and early 1900's. MARIJUANA IS NOT HEROIN! MARIJUAnA IS NOT COCAINE! MARIJUANA IS NOT OPIUM! STOP THE NONSENSE AND REGULATE THE DISTRIBUTION OF MARIJUANA AND SEEDS TO WHOEVER NEEDS SUCH A WONDERFUL PLANT! I said before, MARIJUANA HASN"T RUINED MY LIFE, JUST MY WALLET BECAUSE OF INSANE CANNABIS PRICES AND UNJUST, UNFAIR AND UNDOCUMENTED PROOF THAT MARIJUANA IS HARMFUL TO THOSE THAT CONSUME IT! lISTEN TO THE DOCTORS! THE DOCTORS WILL TELL YOU THAT MARIJUANA IS SAFE! ASK ANY OF THEM!

RedWolf in Colorado

Jan 21 2008, 9:53 pm

“US federal prosecutors have charged Emery and two associates - Michelle Rainey and Greg Williams - with drug offences and money laundering for operating a global marijuana seed business.”

Let’s not to forget to add that they operated in their country where it is legal to do what they were doing and therefore did nothing wrong. Let’s also not forget how incompetent the United States Customs Department is. They will, let most anything in to the US from tainted food for both human and pet consumption, lead in toys for kids, and my seeds from Amsterdam.

I agree with the first poster. Canada’s government should have the balls to tell the US to “Fuck Off”, if only they weren’t a bunch of pussies.

To Canada

Jan 21 2008, 8:50 pm

I also agree with your comment.
I wish our Federal Government would mind it's own business. But as a U.S citizen under this type of Government (that I don't really care for) I have seen how they work. They use the "old saying" with other countries.
"DO IT OR ELSE"


~Joker'

USA

Jan 21 2008, 6:01 pm

^^^You obviously don't know how the US operates. But I agree.

canada

Jan 21 2008, 5:21 pm

fuck off usa run ur own country and dont worry about others.

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