By Jodie Emery, Cannabis Culture

 

There have been two recent updates in Marc’s situation. He’s been moved to a new unit in SeaTac FDC in preparation for his transfer to an FCI (US Federal Correctional Institution) because SeaTac FDC is for pre-trial inmates and Marc has been sentenced. He will be shipped out soon, but we don’t know when. However, we do finally know where he’ll be: Taft FCI in California.

 

Marc said he expected Taft even though he wanted Lompoc (also in California), because Lompoc has “Corrlinks” email messaging, and we both depend on that so much for constant communication all day, every day. But once he’s at Taft, where they don’t have Corrlinks, Marc and I will only get one 10-minute phone call a day, and our visits twice a month. We’re still so grateful for the relative closeness, though, because Texas or Mississippi or Georgia, or any of the other options, are much further away.

 

The other positive aspects are that he’ll be in a Low Security section, which means he will be able to go outside and get sun and fresh air! He’ll also have better selection from commissary, because there are vegetables on the list that he can buy and eat. Taft FCI is a privately-run prison, so the regular daily meals are very poor, but with commissary Marc will be able to have some healthy food. He’s very excited for the prospect of sunlight, fresh air, and fresh food – what precious simple things we all take for granted.

 

Once Marc arrives at Taft, he’ll be able to submit his application to the US Department of Justice asking for transfer to Canada. The United States and Canada have an agreement called the International Transfer of Offenders Act, and it requires that prisoners be allowed to serve their time at home if approved by the governments of both countries as not being a threat to national security. Canadian citizens also have a Charter of Rights and Freedoms right to come home, under Section 6: Mobility, which allowed Canadian citizens the ability to leave, return to, and stay in Canada.

 

The US has been approving Canadian prisoner requests as usual, but since 2006 when the Conservative government was elected in Canada, the Conservative Public Safety Ministers have been delaying and rejecting transfer requests. The US recently admonished Canada for failing to hold up their end of the treaty agreement, and even more recently, the federal court in Canada said the Conservatives erred in not bringing back Canadian drug offenders in US prison. So those were both good news!

 

Marc’s application to the Public Safety Minister was submitted the same day he was sentenced, September 10th. He received confirmation that the Public Safety Minister does have the paperwork, and he can approve it at any time. Please call and write to ask him to approve! For those who are at a loss about what to say, here is a letter you can send if you’re unable to write your own. There’s no postage required in Canada!

 

The US application process is more complicated, and for that reason we need to hire a specialist lawyer who takes care of Canadian prisoner transfer requests. She’s highly recommended and gets the job done, but her bill is going to be $8,500 – so we’re doing a Free Marc Emery Fundraiser with a one-day mega-drive moneybomb to help hire this lawyer and get Marc home to Canada!

 

Saturday, October 19th is the day we’ve chosen, and it has some special significance: when Marc was imprisoned for 2 months for passing a joint in Saskatoon, back in 2004, he was released on October 19th. I was right there outside the prison, in the middle of a prairie snowstorm, to meet Marc upon his first moments of freedom. I can’t tell you how anxiously I await the day when Marc is free from this imprisonment, and I can run up and jump on him and squeeze him and kiss him until I can’t breathe anymore!

 

I sincerely hope people will contribute to this moneybomb on Saturday October 19th, because we rely on supporters for the expenses related to this unjust case. Thankfully, because Marc helped so many people with money, seeds, and even just inspiration in the decades he’s been fighting for freedom, we have received such kind messages of support and know that people out there care, and want Marc to be sent home!

 

The October 19th “Free Marc Emery Moneybomb” will be announced and explained more thoroughly soon at www.CannabisCulture.com. However, if you’d like to donate now in advance of the moneybomb, we are earmarking all donations made online to the legal fees for the US transfer specialist and will include it in the total for the fundraiser moneybomb on Saturday October 19th. You can donate at the Cannabis Culture online store in the FREE MARC section here.

 

We believe that the Canadian government has no reason to refuse Marc’s request, and so far the indications have been relatively positive. A few months ago, some supporters met Public Safety Minister Vic Toews and asked him to bring Marc home, and he first said nothing, but then said that he wouldn’t object as long as Marc promised not to break the law anymore (an obvious requirement for transfer, and something Marc has already agreed to, as required at sentencing and for transfer).

 

More recently, a friend of ours met Toews at an event in Toews’ constituency in Manitoba, and presented him with a neat and tidy information packet about Marc and cannabis facts. Dan Grice asked Toews to bring Marc home, and Toews said he didn’t have a problem with it as long as Marc doesn’t “piss off the Americans” anymore. Here’s the exchange they had, as reported by our friend:

 

 

So that’s a good sign, because Marc will not "piss off" the American government the way he did with his seed sales because he doesn’t plan to sell seeds or break the law again, so he should be able to come home. But we still need support and pressure to make sure Marc gets home! Please write to Vic Toews and the US Justice Department saying that Canadian Marc Emery should be sent home to serve his sentence because American taxpayers shouldn’t have to pay for his imprisonment and because he has a Charter and treaty right to return home to do his time close to his family.

 

Also, please watch and share this video, where I update everyone on YouTube about Marc. It’s been so long, but finally, I went over all the news and what’s coming up next.

 

By: Marc Emery, Cannabis Culture

 

Dearest Jodie: After I saw you Sunday for our perfectly lovely visit (smashing dress you had on), I was informed I was moving from unit DB to another unit. I thought, uh-oh, what did I do, but it wasn’t punishment at all, it was to unit FA, which is kind of a waiting unit for inmates who have been designated to their federal prison. So I’ve been designated!

 

I probably pack-out in about 4-6 weeks, but they don’t tell you when you go, or where you’re designated to. Wish I knew! I sure hope it’s Lompoc near Santa Barbara in California. The prisons I can be sent to have to have INS, or Immigration and Naturalization Services, because I’m a foreigner. The options include California, New Mexico, Texas, Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina, Ohio, or Pennsylvania. I’m hoping for Lompoc in California.

 

Once I get packed-out, by the way, you can follow me by putting my name and inmate number in the BOP.gov inmate tracker. That should let you know where I am once I’m on the road, as it were, because there might be up to several days where I have no ability to phone or email you.

 

I should have called you from unit DB when I was told after our visit at 10:30am Sunday that I had to move immediately, because it took 24 hours for my phone and email situation here at FA to be set-up and I know you were so worried to not hear from me. But I’m okay, miss! Just make sure people know that any mail they want to send to me should be addressed to Unit FA from now on.

 

I know my cellie JD was disappointed to see me go; we got along great, listening to old music stations like the Vancouver Island 100.3 (The Q) and guessing who the artist was and when it came out originally, making food at night, and sharing all our commissary and books and newspapers. I was disappointed for a few moments, but really, I’m glad to be moving along in the process.

 

My Canadian transfer application is in to Public Safety Minister Vic Toews. Our friend Dan Grice’s meeting with Toews sounded very positive, and I’m hoping the money bomb for October 19, for my new US lawyer (transfer application specialist), gets promoted heavily to raise as much of that $8,500 as possible. Loretta Nall in Alabama is donating the $100 she wants to give me to that effort, and I asked her to tell everyone she knows to help out, even if its $5 or $10 or $25. It all adds up and it all helps. Every day I get letters from people wondering how they can help us, and I’d have to say giving a little bit to help pay this new lawyer is what we both really need.

 

You can donate through the Cannabis Culture online store by clicking here.

 

Each step along the way brings me closer to you! As of July 29, that was the last day charges could be filed against me from any other jurisdiction (5-year statute of limitations) in the US on the seed selling. Then on September 10, the sentencing went as we’d agreed under the 11(c)1(c) plea agreement, so that was done. Then we got the transfer application in to the Canadian government the same day, and we have probably have had over 2,000 letters sent in to encourage Toews to bring me back to Canada – plus people stop him everywhere and bring it up, and he is always saying that he’ll bring me back as long as I promise not to break any laws. I’m on record as promising quite clearly not to re-offend, and for my 5 years on bail I certainly did not, so he has every good reason, politically and in the interest of “public safety”, to bring me back home.

 

Now I’m in the first stage of getting transferred out to my designated US prison, and once there, I put in my US transfer application. So I’m excited! I have my own cell for now, and that’s nice. In the near 5 months I’ve been here (I have 200 days served so far with my Canadian 66 days credit), I’ve shared a cell and never had my own, except when I was in solitary for 21 days! So last night was the first day with my own cell when I wasn’t being punished. I have sunlight coming into my cell this morning, with the same view I had in solitary of the parking lot and surrounding trees. It’s nice to see the world on a sunny day!

 

I finished the Nelson Mandela auto-biography, "Long Walk To Freedom". It’s a great and very inspiring book. Most of it was written when he was in prison. I hope you are working on my autobiographical stories that I’ve written while I am in jail here! I want those stories up at MarcEmery.ca by the third week in October, so please don’t let that project lapse! I know you are busy with the store, your writing and researching, the fundraising and money bomb, visiting me, all the interviews, etc., but I have 15 stories now, plus all my other writings, interview, documentaries, videos, and I so want to have them in one place where people can see all the work and experiences I’ve had in my life that got me to be Prince of Pot. I’m going to quote you a number of sections from Mandela’s book later on, his observations about being in prison and being a freedom fighter and political prisoner are very astute and prescient and it’s a book made for quoting.

 

Today, in the mail, I’m hoping part three of Taylor Branch’s brilliant trilogy on the life and times of Marin Luther King, Jr. arrives, “Canaan’s Edge”. It’s the perfect time for it to arrive, as I’ve completed the first two, and after Mandela’s book I’m excited to finish MLK’s great life story. If it doesn’t arrive, I’m going to read Tom Gordon #3, the next book in the great Alan Moore graphic novel.

 

I’m hoping I start to get people’s photographs of the Marc Emery Support Day on October 18th, especially from Loretta Nall, Addie Clemons, you, Chris Goodwin and others. I want to see what the bottles of “Marc Emery Bong Water” that the activists in Toronto gave out – 2,500 bottles of clean water bought and labeled by my great supporter Khalid and his partners at Pixel Dreams – look like. I would have called it Marc Emery Freedom Water if it were up to me, with subtitles like, "Slake Your Thirst For Freedom" or "Water the seeds of freedom" or "The cool, refreshing taste of liberty", etc., but they do call themselves the Toronto Hash Mob so a funky title is very much in keeping with their rep. That’s the fun of a decentralized campaign, eh?

 

My health is good, I loved our two visits on the weekend! Glad you thought my chapter for Barry Cooper’s book on the law ("Never Get Busted Questions & Answers"), "Life in a Federal Prison" was good, and fair. Since you are the editor of that book now, you’ll learn plenty about the law to enhance your credibility as Policing & Crime critic for the BC Green Party. This experience is all part of our education, Mrs. Emery!

 

I love my fabulous wife, and am excited about making progress in the scheme of things. Every day that goes by is a day I learn something new, write something about my life, and especially it’s one day closer to being with you and sharing our terrific future together! I so want to be your Executive assistant when you get elected to office! "The Speaker recognizes The Honourable Jodie Emery from Vancouver Center" – can’t wait to hear that! It’s so going to happen Miss!

 

But in the meantime, better get to work on all the things you’ve got to do! I love my Mrs. Emery so much!

 

Your Husband with tremendous admiration for you,

Marc

The wife of Marc Emery, Jodie, brings us up to date on how Marc is doing in US federal prison, and what lies ahead for him. He will be moved to a new prison at some point in the near future: Taft FCI, in California. Read Jodie’s latest blog for more information. (Correction from the video: Marc Emery Legal Fundraiser Moneybomb is Saturday October 16th, not the 19th.)

 

Marc was ordered extradited from Canada on May 10th, was formally removed from Canada and taken to SeaTac FDC in Seattle on May 20th, and was sentenced to 5 years in prison on September 10th. Information about the sentencing is found at www.FreeMarc.ca and www.CannabisCulture.com

Marc’s Canadian transfer application to return to Canada to serve his sentence is now with the Public Safety Minister of Canada, and we need help to get him to say YES! Marc will soon be sent to Taft FCI in California to serve his sentence, and will apply to the US government for transfer to Canada. We need people’s help to get them to say YES too! We also need to fundraise $8,500 to hire the US transfer specialist lawyer, so please join our fundraising moneybomb on Saturday, October 16th!

So to help FREE MARC EMERY, please go to www.FreeMarc.ca and www.CannabisCulture.com

Also subscribe to Cannabis Culture’s YouTube account at www.YouTube.com/CannabisCultureMag and Jodie Emery’s account at www.YouTube.com/JodieEmery

 

 

By Marc Emery, Cannabis Culture

 

Oh Sweet Wife O’ Mine! The Marc Emery Support Day on Saturday was thrilling to know was going on, what little I knew about behind these bars. Some staff at the FDC here however, are have taken a hostile turn against me, I think, as a consequence of all this support and media surrounding my sentencing and my work.

 

In yesterday’s mail, the Facebook pages I have been regularly receiving since May – printouts of the Marc Emery fan page, and your personal page – were seized by the mailroom staff here at FDC, and I am barred from receiving them further. Plus my 8 pages of photocopies from StopTheDrugWar.com (DRCNet) that Vanessa Nelson sends each week were looted too, along with two letters from Ken Holland in Michigan. Ken usually sends me a letter everyday which included a newspaper clipping all annotated by Ken’s pithy observations, and a few other cartoons he’s photocopied from newspapers, and some other photocopies of articles Ken thinks are pertinent. So both Ken’s two envelopes were empty with a notice that Ken’s clippings and ephemera have been seized as "contraband". Vanessa’s letter was still there, but the excellent material from DRCNet were gone because, according to Big Brother in the mailroom, they were from a publication, and any publication has to come from the publisher. Of course, I have been receiving weekly photocopies of these drug war articles since May.

 

I immediately put in a complaint to the mailroom, the woman came down to speak to me about it this morning. She said I can’t get the Facebook pages any longer because they constitute third party messaging. I asked why that is a rule, and if it’s a rule, why isn’t it in the rulebook? She didn’t really have a good explanation of how me getting Facebook pages constitutes any harm, and she said when the rule book was written, Facebook didn’t exist. My rulebook was updated in January 2010, Facebook started in 2006. So there is a rule that they invented for the occasion of busting my balls. She did confirm that the mailroom let me have them for 14 weeks leading up to yesterday.

 

On Friday I was called into a Lieutenant’s office and given a charge, or "shot" as its called, a 328, because you sent my cellie JD $75 because he’s poor and you felt sorry for him. This was 4 weeks ago you did that on your own. I was told to report to the Disciplinary office and the man there was quite hostile to me. He mocked me as the FDC’s famous inmate, spent the whole time intimidating me. It’s not against the rules for you to give an inmate money, my dear, for you are such a sweet woman, you’ve given newspaper subscriptions, books, and small amounts of money to fellow inmates of mine before, back at North Fraser Pre-Trial – and as part of Cannabis Culture Magazine, we corresponded with prisoners, printed their artwork and letters in CC, such as prisoner Jimmy Rasta in Texas who even sent you that wonderful oil painting of you that is in the Lounge. You’re the Policing & Corrections critic for the BC Green Party and you talk with prisoner wives on PrisonTalk.com, so this was hardly out of the ordinary for you.

 

The rule forbids me from giving money to other inmates, but I don’t have any money, nor is cash allowed (or possible) here. The angry man in the Lt’s office told me he reads all my emails and listens to all my calls, including, he added with a disgusted emphasis, "your personal ones", implying my intimate talks that I get to occasionally have with you or my sign offs on my emails to you. Nothing at all out of the ordinary, considering I’m your husband! But he was contemptible towards me.

 

Then he said what I write in my emails is lies, and he specifically said my chapter I wrote for Barry Cooper’s book on life here at Sea-Tac FDC was, and I quote, "bullshit". He further asked me why I felt qualified to write about life here, and I added, though we wasn’t interested in my point of view, "because I’m here." Then he went on sarcastically saying "You said we tortured you in the Special Housing Unit". I said "Solitary was a form of torture as far as I’m concerned." He sneered. In fact, most C.O.’s here have told me I was sent to solitary (SHU) for 21 grueling days in June simply because I was "high-profile" and "famous" and for no other reason at all. Certainly not the stated reason that you recorded my phone call, Miss, that was just their excuse, as there is no rule against recording my phone calls. They brought out that "3rd party" rule which I see they use just to mess with me when they feel like it.

 

Then his cohort asked how long in was in the solitary confinement, I said "21 days". "And you feel that qualifies you to write about SHU?" I thought one day in there qualifies an inmate to write about it authoritatively because every day is the same in there, but I said nothing, they weren’t listening. Then this cohort said, "well maybe you ought to spend more time in SHU and see what you think about that." I felt that was sinister intimidation trying to suppress and silence my writing here, which is protected speech. Especially the Lt boasting he reads all my emails and listens to all my phone calls, including my "personal ones", like he’s trying to cow me. Notably, he obviously didn’t have any emails or phone calls that provided any support for this charge that I somehow gave my cellie money.

 

That was a creepy enough experience. I will say, not all the C.O.’s here have this attitude, but enough of them have it, it would appear. I got my verdict after having a second meeting: two months of no commissary for me, and one month of no commissary for my cellie. That means no purchasing anything, like stamps, envelopes, soap, toothpaste, or the nuts, trail mix and other food items I bought that gave me protein and other vitamins I need. Clearly there is some institutional bias going on against me now; I can only conclude as a result of the media attention that has come to my situation in the last few weeks.

 

Even in the visiting room on Monday, I arrived at 2:45 pm. You didn’t arrive until 3:10 pm, so I asked the C.O. if my 2-hour visitation time started at 2:45 when I arrived or 3:10 when you arrived. It was the C.O. who has reprimanded me twice before and threatened to give me a shot because on two occasions I was touching your arm instead of holding your hands, and it’s the one who also complained that I’m not allowed to kiss you in our photographs like we did once on photo day, and that he’d be watching me in photo days in future. You know whom I’m talking about, Miss, the one you refer to as " the mean guy". When I asked about this time question, politely as always, he got all over-sensitive and said "you’ve been here many times Mr. Emery, you know we never short-change your visit times." I commented that my rulebook, which I’ve memorized, says on page 22,"The time period will begin when the inmate arrives in the visitation room". Since I had to wait 25 minutes in the room before you were escorted in (you had been waiting 70 minutes in the other part of the building), and according to the rulebook, that would count against our time, and I wanted that clarified. So we got our two hours together, and it was wonderful, but the rules are obviously not very clear, which makes them difficult to follow.

 

You have my chapter for Barry Cooper’s book, as you are going to be the editor of Barry’s book, Mrs. Emery; a wise move by him, I’m sure. As I’m sure you agree, the "Life in a US Federal FDC" is very fair. It doesn’t criticize any staff here nor even the institution itself, it’s just the way it is. Of course I say the food is terrible, but who can disagree with that?

 

The rulebook doesn’t prohibit these so-called 3rd party messages in a mailed letter. A 3rd party message could be "The kids want you to know they love you" or "Your mother asked me to pass on her love and her hope that you are eating well" or even "I’m supposed to remind you to call your lawyer, write your mother, etc". Why I can’t receive my Facebook pages is not rationally explained. The rulebook just says "Unauthorized mail includes musical greeting cards, Polaroid photos, nude personal photos, plant material, non-inspectable items, etc." Typically, any 8.5 x 11 photocopies or 8.5 x 11 printed pages are considered a "letter" – or were, until yesterday. Today, the mailroom seized a one-page laminated chart for editing my own stories that a retired teacher sent along. Seized because it’s laminated.

 

I hired a lawyer to help me process my US application for the treaty transfer back to Canada. The process for the US side of things is more complicated so I think a lawyer who specializes in this transfer application business is a good idea. It’s $8,500 and of course I don’t have any money so I hope you can get some donations from our supporters to help me pay for this lawyer. I know you’ll take some of your own pay and help me with this lawyer, but I already use up so much of your income being in here, where phone calls, emails, and everything else that costs money.

 

I know you received $350 in donations for me last month, so that helped. Loretta Nall is sending $100 to help too, probably just in time to pay the $100 fine I have to pay from the September 10 sentencing. The $8,500 for this new US lawyer will need to be paid soon, at least a good chunk of it, so you should ask our supporters to help out, because we just finished paying my sentencing lawyer Richard Troberman. I will say this for Richard, he is a terrific lawyer and he does great work and would definitely recommend him to anyone who needs a criminal lawyer in the Seattle area. I feel I’ve been fortunate getting excellent lawyers like Ian Donaldson in Vancouver and Richard Troberman here. But now yet another lawyer needs money and I’ll need help to pay her that $8,500. I sure hope she can help with making my application for transfer successful.

 

I hope this week you can read my 15 stories of my autobiography and begin to edit them for the marcemery.ca website, where all my writings will be going. I’d love to have those available to people by mid-October to read. These stories have never been read by any of my supporters before and it will provide insight as to how I became who I am. Plus they are so cute and full of nostalgia and I’m looking forward to the feedback. Tomorrow I’m going to write about Iboga Therapy House, and then the garbage strike in 1986, and then scenes from my travel adventures in India, Indonesia, my trip to the middle east in 1975. I’m going to try to finish a story every day starting tomorrow.

 

I’ve been reading a lot at night until about 2:30 or 3 am. I finished two graphic novels by Alan Moore, Tom Gordon #2 and Top 10. Alan Moore is a fantastic story-teller. I finished the Cartoon History of the World, Books #1, #2, #4, and #3 just arrived today. Alas, most of the world’s history is a depraved slaughter; militarism & enslavement with genocides, and it’s gotten wearying, since regardless of place (China, Rome, Egypt, India, South America, Europe) it’s the same predictable mass killing, stupid punishing religions, domination and conquest. Even me doing this 5-year sentence in this prison feels like an extension of this sordid history of domination over peaceful, largely powerless people by oppressive governments and institutions. I begin to read Nelson Mandela’s autobiography tonight, on that note.

 

After writing over 300 letters from May to early September, I’ve gotten burned out writing letters to correspondents, Miss, so I hope they’ll forgive me if I take a break. I spent 3 to 4 hours every day writing 5 or 6 letters to people but in the last two weeks I’m more wanting to spend that time writing stories that everyone will get to read at marcemery.ca about my life up to now. The Life in Federal Prison piece for Barry Cooper’s book, Robert’s Vietnam story, my autobiography stories, my Canadian voter’s guide: these are the projects I want to focus on for now. I’ve still got the letters I’ve received stacked up, and I’m going to get to my regulars – Carol in Camino, Vanessa in Sacramento, Daniel in Vancouver, Arlette in Vancouver – but I’ve got to get my stories done while the muse is in me, Miss.

 

Loretta is sending me photos of her Marc Emery Support Day activity in Montgomery, up Dexter Avenue where Martin Luther King’s church was. And I hope Jeremiah and you can send me photos of the activities you’re aware of, especially since they won’t let me receive copies of my Facebook page anymore.

 

I haven’t been designated yet, but I’m going to be soon, then I expect I’ll be moving out near the end of October or beginning of November.

 

I sure loved seeing you Monday in that pretty red dress. You had a great tan from Saturday, standing on the bridge over highway #5 with the FREE MARC EMERY signs and all the Seattle-area activists who were with you. You are the loveliest sight for my lonely eyes Miss. You know how I cry many times on the phone or when I write you, Jodie, and even when I see you, and I’m crying now. This is such a difficult challenge, and I won’t lie, it’s disheartening to think I’ve got years to go. As of today I’ve spent over 194 days in jail, and with good time credit of 232 days on my 5-year sentence, I have no more than 3 years and 10 months to go if I spend every day of it in these United States of America prisons. That’s still very discouraging to think about, Jodie, it really is. I hope people are still contacting Public Safety Minister Vic Toews and the US Department of Justice, asking for them to let me serve my time in Canada.

 

I really hope people give some money to Proposition 19, and urge everyone in California to vote for it, because it needs 50% plus one of the voters to vote YES, not just enough votes to beat the No side. Lots of voters go to vote but don’t vote on every initiative, and if you go to the polls but don’t vote on Prop. 19, it’s like a no vote. So it’s more challenging than people think to win; it’s not just a matter of getting more votes than the no side. That vote is in just 6 weeks. If it wins, it will be the most monumental thing to happen in North America this year, and it will really help end the marijuana prohibition so much sooner than if it fails. I’m so disappointed that Peter Lewis, MPP, the DPA and other well-financed groups have not contributed the big money they have access to on this great, great opportunity. If Prop. 19 fails, there will be people in our movement to blame for holding back when they should have committed.

 

I’m very pleased to hear that you have gotten Canadian city councillors, Mayors, MLA’s, numerous Members of Parliament and a Senator so far to sign a letter to the Public Safety Minister urging my repatriation to Canada. That will be impressive. We will need a letter signed by American elected officials for the same purpose to be presented to the US Justice Department regarding my transfer. I’m hoping our supporters can urge Congressman Ron Paul and former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson to sign a letter like that, along with any other elected official they know who is sympathetic to ending prohibition. These letters do not ask for my clemency, only that I be transferred in accordance with existing law in both Canada and the United States back to the Canadian Corrections system.

 

I can’t wait, as always, to see you this weekend. Your visits are so precious to me. Since we don’t know when and where I might be sent away to my designated prison, and how long it might be before you can visit me, or even know where I am, I savor these visits. I try to stay strong, sweetheart, and I’m always busy, but I feel I’m not very brave. I miss you tremendously and can get so sad thinking about my loneliness from you. I’m glad no one here razzes me when they see me crying when I write to you, it’s considerate of them, because I am such a wuss. I’m so, so in love with you. Remember when you were sixteen, you predicted to one of your classmates that you would "marry Marc Emery or work for him, or both", as she reminded you about recently? How perfect that your destiny was fulfilled! You are the best thing that ever happened to me, Miss. We must be meant to be soul mates forever.

 

Your prince,

Wanting to come home,

Marc Emery

 

 

Andrea Macpherson, NEWS1130

 

The "Prince of Pot" has applied to serve his time in Canada. Fifty-two-year-old Marc Emery was sentenced to five years in prison for selling marijuana seeds to American customers.

 

Marc Emery’s wife Jodie says the Canadian consulate confirms the request has now been sent to Ottawa. "In the next four to six or eight weeks, he will be moved at some point to a correctional institution instead of a detention centre. But we don’t know where he will go and when he will go. But once he gets there, then we can actually file that US paper work."

 

They are now hiring a specialist to deal with the US side of things. "Marc today received first of the forms that he will be filling out for the US application to the Department of Justice. That one is going to have to be reviewed by the Bureau of Prisons, the DEA, the State Department, and then get approval."

 

She says because it’s such a process she hopes to fundraise over $8,000 to pay the specialist.

 

By Cannabis Culture

 

Worldwide rallies to free imprisoned activist Marc Emery were a huge success in over 90 locations around the globe, and photos and videos of the many protests are flooding the Internet.

 

Below are links to various photos and videos from the WORLDWIDE RALLIES to FREE MARC EMERY on September 18, 2010. Click here for a map of participating cities and more info about the rallies. Stay tuned for more on the global rallies from Cannabis Culture.

 

VIEW PHOTO GALLERIES of the event on FREEMARC.ca

 

Click here to see hundreds of photos of the event on Marc Emery’s Facebook Page and Fan Page.

 

 

By: Andrew Moran, Digital Journal

 

Toronto – Rallies occurred around the world to protest the five-year prison sentence of the "Prince of Pot" Marc Emery. Protests took place in Toronto, Berlin, Antarctica, Vancouver, Oslo and other areas around the globe.

 

Last week, Canadian marijuana activist Marc Emery was sentenced by a United States District Court Judge to five years in prison on drug distribution charges. The U.S. federal judge recommended that the 52-year-old Emery be allowed to serve his time in Canada.

 

On Saturday, rallies were held worldwide to protest the imprisonment of Emery, according to Cannabis Culture. Majority of the protests were held in front of U.S. and Canadian Consulates/Embassies demanding that Emery be sent back to Canada and released immediately.

 

In Canada, the rallies also urged people to stop bill S-10, which contains mandatory minimum sentence laws, including 9 months for 6 marijuana plants and 18 months for making one marijuana cookie. This bill is expected to cost billions of dollars.

Protests have been scheduled all over the world in Europe, Australia, Asia, North America and even Antarctica.

 

In the meantime, Emery has been posting prison blogs. “The Prince of Pot’s” latest blog was published on Monday:

“We have huge support to have me transferred back to Canada! We have dozens of elected politicians signing a joint letter to Vic Toews urging my repatriation, including MPs, Mayors, Councillors, MLAs, and Senators,” wrote Emery. “Toews has received over a thousand letters so far since August 1st and I know he will get several hundred more. We must urge everyone to send in a letter to him urging my immediate approval of my transfer under the treaty that obligates the Canadian government to bring me back.”