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EMERY’S TREATMENT UNJUST

submitted by on May 18, 2010
Jodie Emery, The Calgary Sun
 
Marc Emery is a Canadian who never went to the U.S., and never grew or sold marijuana. He sold only cannabis seeds in Canada, did it openly, paid taxes on all income and used the profits to fund political activism. Vancouver police tried to have him charged in 2003, but the Crown declined, so they worked with the Drug Enforcement Administration to indict him in the U.S. The DEA press release about Marc’s July 2005 arrest bragged it was "a significant blow to the marijuana legalization movement" because hundreds of thousands of dollars of Emery’s profits are known to have been channelled to marijuana legalization groups in the U.S. and Canada. U.S. authorities offered him a plea deal to allow him to serve his time in Canada if he was charged here, but the Conservative government refused. Marc then agreed to a five-year plea deal in the U.S. to avoid a life sentence. The justice minister’s decision to extradite Marc to the U.S. is unjust. If he broke the law in Canada, he should be tried and sentenced in Canada, not sent to a foreign country to be punished under much harsher laws.
 
Jodie Emery
 
Vancouver