Free Marc Emery

Elijah Paull, Montreal Gazette

 

Canadian pot activist Marc Emery has been ordered extradited to the United States by Justice Minister Rob Nicholson for selling marijuana seeds to consenting adults there. It appalls me that our Conservative government can so readily hand over its law-abiding citizens – on whose business activity it has happily collected taxes for years – to a foreign country and penal system. I would bet that the Hell’s Angels are not buying 10-seed packets over the Internet to run their grow-ops. Our government should be spending my tax dollars and its energy more wisely, and more importantly protecting its citizens.

 

Elijah Paull

 

Pierrefonds

Travis Erbacher, The Province

 

When I was 15, I wrote my first letter to the editor regarding Marc Emery’s arrest. He personally emailed me and told me to keep writing and that I could become a great activist someday.

 

In May 2009 I became one of the youngest candidates for political office in this country’s history, for the B.C. Green party. I couldn’t have done it without him. He has inspired thousands of other young people to get involved in politics.

 

This man is a hero, and now I can say proudly, a friend. What is happening to him is despicable.

 

Travis Erbacher,

 

Langley