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Marc Emery the Prince of Pot

Not only is Marc Emery spending time in a US prison for a so called crime that we in Canada couldn’t be bothered to even charge him with – selling pot seeds – but now he is in solitary confinement for breaking a prison rule that was never explained to him. It wasn’t even in the prison rule book he was given.

Marc was having a phone conversation with his wife Jodie and she recorded the call. For some reason that is against prison rules – I’m sure the prison can record any calls it wants but I guess free Canadian citizens who aren’t even in the USA can’t. Bullshit.

This is an outrage. Today Libby Davies wrote an open letter to the Minister of Foreign Affairs to request he do something about this cruel and unusual treatment of a Canadian citizen who has not committed a crime of any serious nature. A “”crime”" that has only garnered a $200.00 fine for the few Canadians who have been charged with it here in Canada. So why is Marc being kept alone, without access to his family, without any reading material, and likely very confused about why they are treating him this way for breaking a rule he was not informed of.

Write Marc at the address here and let him know that he’s on the right side of history on this issue and that he’ll pull through. Also be sure to let him know what’s new and exciting in your neck of the woods. Let him know that he is missed and that we are looking forward to his safe and fast return to freedom.

And lets not forget what this is all about. Marc was just trying to point out the obvious to those who choose to put their head in the sand and ignore the failure of the drug war. Drug prohibition has been a colossal waste of scarce tax dollars. Prohibition is taking billions of dollars away from priorities like educating our children and providing health care to every Canadian citizen. I know for a fact that taking money away from prohibition and giving it to worthwhile programs that benefit our society will be a much better use of that money. Turn cannabis into a tax revenue generating product and apply it to health care. All the money saved from enforcing cannabis laws can be sent to education. And you can save a portion of what is made on the sale of cannabis to deal with any negative effects caused by legalizing it. Such as an increase in car crashes (if any), increased health care costs from smoking (if smoked and if proven to be carcinogenic which it hasn’t been), etc.

In the end we’ll all see that what Marc has been preaching is 100% dead on accurate. And all those who allowed Marc Emery to be sent up the river without adding their voice to the outcry will be ashamed of what they did. Or should I say didn’t.

Marc Scott Emery #40252-086 Unit DB
PO Box 13900
FDC SeaTac
Seattle, Washington
98198-1090
USA

“Today was a day of frustration for me. In Montreal useless lazy cops decided today was the day to take medicine away from sick people by raiding a series of cannabis compassion clubs. This after similar raids in Toronto a few weeks ago. I expect Vancouver compassion clubs to be next, but if they do that they better be ready for a fight. We Vancouverites do not take lightly to heavy handed law enforcement abusing sick people who are harming nobody by consuming cannabis.

And then to add some irony into the days news cycle the CBC reported how organized crime is now operating the largest, most sophisticated, hardest to find grow ops ever seen in BC. And no doubt, based on what I have smoked, they are also growing the best weed they ever have. Here’s that news story…

And in case you missed it this story pointed out the blatant futility of the law enforcement effort to stop BC Bud.

For every 1000 Grow Ops
200 get reported to police
Police have the resources to investigate 100
Only 65 proceed with a criminal charge
Only 38 cases are strong enough for the crown to proceed with charges
and 8 end up leading to jail time

It’s a fucking waste of time and money over a harmless plant!

And to piss me off even more the media does a horrible job of reporting the news in this area. It’s reported as if the solution is to have tougher laws against cannabis use and production. And of course nothing could be further from the truth. Of course our unethical cops and useless politicians would like us to believe otherwise.

For fuck sakes are all of our police and politicians retarded? It’s tougher laws that have got us to where we are now. Every step in the direction of tougher laws increases the violence in the marijuana trade, pushes the growers further into the shadows and ultimately results in a less safe society. Jesus Christ, why am I the only one who see’s this pattern?

Thankfully I know I’m not the only one who thinks this way. Every person I engage in conversation about marijuana prohibition has the same opinion as me these days. And I’m not exaggerating. 10 years ago it was harder to find someone who agreed with my point of view. Nowadays people are growing very tired of having our scarce police resources used to keep responsible adults from using cannabis products. Tons of people are now aware of the epic failure of cannabis prohibition, yet our police still close down peaceful, non organized crime associated, compassion clubs. And no doubt they will be back at the tax payers money trough asking for more money to fight the “”scourge”" of marijuana.

And nothing is ever said on the news about how raiding compassion clubs just forces people to go back to paying organized crime for a product that was definitely produced in a more dangerous way than the lab tested and professionally grown cannabis compassion clubs sell to their doctor approved members. Not to mention the indignity that sick people have to go through to source medicine from gangsters.

Isn’t it time to do the right thing and let cannabis users be? We don’t deserve the abuse we are given for using a substance scientifically proven to be safer than our legal drugs – alcohol, tobacco and caffeine.

So to all you cops out there, give us a fucking break and go fight real crime. And to our politicians – stop handing money over to gangsters and let us pay you for our cannabis instead of them.”

Animals are most dangerous when threatened and cornered. They will attack you under those circumstances. Ideologically centered governments, like Canada’s current Conservative Party debacle, react the same way. Marc Emery found that out after many years of cornering the Canadian and US Governments.

He cornered them with science, fact and public support. He cornered them by pointing out their lies about marijuana that were designed to scare and mislead the public. Marc Emery stood up for what is right and what is just – an outright end to our terribly failed marijuana laws. Today Canada’s Justice Minister lashed out at Emery from his cornered position and exercised his poor judgment and signed Marc’s extradition papers.

Write your MP a letter stating how disappointed you are at what happened in Marc’s case. Write letters to the editor. And most importantly of all, once Marc is behind bars find his address and write him. Be sure to watch my blog as I will post his mailing address in prison as soon as I know it.”

Calgary Cannabis Activist Has Child Taken Away

Holy shit. I just read this and couldn’t believe my eye’s. Read the article to get all the horrific and tragic details but basically a Canadian marijuana activist has had her child taken away from her by child protective services in Oregon. They won’t give him back to her because she is “”unfit”" but they won’t explain what makes her unfit. Could it be because she has a criminal record for growing medical marijuana?

Please – if you are reading my blog contact the following people and let them know this is unconscionable and must end. The poor child is being put through tremendous stress at a young age and will no doubt be changed from this experience in negative ways. And the Mother must be going fucking insane.

Pick up a pen, grab a phone, do something about this!

Jason Kenney – (Canadian Minister of Citizenship and Immigration)
minister@cic.gc.ca

Stephen Harper (Canadian Prime Minister)
pm@pm.gc.ca

Barack Obama (As if you don’t know)
president@whitehouse.gov

Janet Napolitano – (Secretary)
Department of Homeland Security
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Washington, DC 20528

Adoption inquiries
NBC.Hague@dhs.gov

Canadian Help
USCIS.Canada@dhs.gov

The Mayor in Oregon:
Don Hampton
City Hall, 48319 E. 541-782-2258

Department of Human Services that is holding Noah:
http://www.oregon.gov/DHS/children/abuse/cps/main.shtml

Amnesty International:
http://www.amnesty.org/