VANCOUVER — Supporters of jailed marijuana activist Marc Emery hosted a 24-hour fundraiser Saturday aimed at raising legal fees to push for his return to Canada.
By midday, the initial target of $8,500 had been raised.
Emery was sentenced to five years in a Seattle prison last month after being convicted of selling pot seeds by mail order and over the phone, which amounts to drug trafficking under U.S. law.
His supporters, including his wife Jodie Emery, have been rallying ever since to have him returned to Canada to serve his time here.
Jodie Emery told a Vancouver radio station Saturday that all the money her husband made from seed sales over the years has gone toward court challenges and other pro-pot crusades. She claimed he had just $11 in his bank account when he was locked up in mid-September.