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Marc Emery's Advice for Aspiring Activists

 

My wife Jodie Emery and I both receive thousands of letters and inquiries with impassioned pleas that read: "I want to do something to make a difference. I want to legalize marijuana. What can I do? Can you advise or help me start? Where do I begin?" This is a question, without rival, that we hear most often.

It comes mostly from Americans and Canadians, but I have received the same question from India, Australia, Europe, the Philippines, Japan, and all over the world. It is a universal desire shared by many people in the cannabis culture the planet over. Read more »

Marc Writes His Own Song And Joins A Reggae Band!

Marc in Yazoo Prison, May 2011Dearest Miss: I’ve been keeping busy, and am actually enjoying the extreme heat down here. Each day in the morning, or even from noon to 3pm, I go to an elevated wooden umpire booth behind the baseball diamond and take off my t-shirt, sit in the shade, and feel this gentle breeze while I read my magazines, books, and NY Times newspapers for two to three hours. I play my bass guitar every evening and most afternoons. Read more »

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Marc's first update from Yazoo City prison in Mississippi

Yazoo City Medium-Security PrisonDearest Jodie: As of May 21st, I've been at Yazoo City medium security federal prison for 31 days and I'm fairly settled in, so I'll describe my daily routine and what it’s like here. There are three buildings that house 128 men in a unit, 4 units to a building, so 512 men to a building when filled to capacity. Read more »

Letter to Jodie upon receiving the bad news

Dearest Sweet Wife: Today, April 16th, I have 1,188 days to go until my release date of July 9th, 2014. That includes my 235 days good time credit, so I have to hope I can maintain that good standing to get out by then. That's 38 months and 3 weeks away, a long time, no doubt, but it was once 60 months. And before that there was five years where you and I anticipated the inevitable extradition and incarceration with anxiety and unspoken dread. Read more »

The Jodie Emery Show - April 21, 2011

Marc is now in Yazoo City, Mississippi -- please send him letters! www.FreeMarc.ca -- and we all missed him at the annual Vancouver 4/20 event on April 20th... but we had a massive FREE MARC banner on stage to remember him. Vancouver had a tremendously successful protest festival, bigger and better than ever before, and the media got out the FREE MARC EMERY and VOTE on MAY 2nd messages. Jodie also shares her voter registration card and explains how to get out and VOTE on May 2nd!

MARC EMERY #40252-086
FCI YAZOO CITY MEDIUM E-1
FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION
P.O. BOX 5888
YAZOO CITY, MS 39194

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The Jodie Emery Show - April 14, 2011

420 is happening on Wednesday next week! Are you celebrating our culture and taking a stand for our freedom? BIG NEWS in Canada with a major court decision! And Jodie has prison photos from her last visit with Marc in Georgia, as he's in Oklahoma waiting to be moved to Mississippi. Go to http://www.WhyProhibition.ca and sign up to find out who you should vote for in the upcoming federal election on MAY 2nd, MONDAY so we can stop the Conservatives from sending us all to prison and destroying Canada!

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WhyProhibition.ca netfirms outage notice

Dear WhyProhibition.ca users,

This morning we suffered an outage while our domain name provider, Netfirms Inc was migrating its systems. During the migration, Netfirms failed to transfer our domain's update correctly and accidentally registered WhyProhibition.ca as expired.

I wanted to assure everyone that WhyProhibition.ca has not expired, and we are not going anywhere.

This is entirely a problem at Netfirms, and we contacted them within minutes of the changes being registered. Netfirms was unable to fix the problem in time, and the error has begun propagating throughout the internet. As of now, our traffic has been reduced by 2/3 and we expect the domain error to be fully propagated by tomorrow (at which point WhyProhibition.ca will be entirely inaccessible) Read more »

U.K. dumps medical adviser for views on gays in Canada and elsewhere

BY RANDY BOSWELL, Vancouver Sun
 
The British government has dumped a newly appointed member of its high-profile advisory board on national drug policies after the emergence of what government officials called an "embarrassing," six-year-old article co-written by the appointee raising concerns about homosexuality in Canada and elsewhere.
 
The article was co-authored in 2005 by Manchester general practitioner Dr. Hans-Christian Raabe — who had been appointed to U.K. Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs on Jan. 19 — and six fellow physicians.

Marc's Prison Newsletter #1 (Blog #24)

[Editor's note: Find out more about Marc Emery, including how to help bring him home to Canada, and how to send him a letter, at www.FreeMarc.ca. Marc also writes regular blogs, which are posted at CannabisCulture.com and FreeMarc.ca]
 
January 10-17th 2011: I have had many complaints about this concentration camp for foreigners. No US citizens are incarcerated here, where nothing ever seems to improve. But one aspect of my situation has gotten better.

Marc Emery update by Jodie Emery, January 27th 2011

Join Jodie at the CannaMedFair coming up on February 4th-6th in Vancouver, and the 12th Annual Hempology 1010 Cannabis Convention in Victoria at the University, February 20th. Jodie also shares possible election plans and news about Marc's transfer.
 
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