- 'Prince of Pot' sows seeds of his own destruction
Mail and Guardian - Apr 30
12:50 AM
Marc Emery is not your average international drug kingpin.
- 'Prince of Pot' sows the seeds of his own destruction
Guardian Unlimited - Apr 29
5:24 PM
Marc Emery is described by the American Drug Enforcement
Agency as Canada's biggest marijuana trafficker.
- Emery case goes to Nelson Supreme Court judge today
Vancouver Province - Apr 24
6:59 AM
Slocan Valley man wants charges filed here to keep Emery out of U.S.
NELSON -- A B.C. Supreme Court judge in Nelson today is to decide if
the attorney-general of Canada should be allowed to stop the private
prosecution of marijuana's prince of pot, Marc Emery.
- Canada's pot plan goes up in smoke
Chicago Tribune - Apr 04 5:42
AM
Bill aimed to cut possession penalty Marijuana possession will remain a
crime in Canada, the country's new conservative prime minister said
Monday in announcing the demise of legislation that U.S. authorities
worried would weaken anti-drug efforts.
- Canada won't legalize small amounts of pot
Detroit News - Apr 04 1:02 AM
OTTAWA -- Marijuana possession will remain a crime in Canada, the
country's new conservative prime minister said Monday in announcing the
demise of legislation that U.S. authorities worried would weaken
efforts to curb drug exports.
- Canada drops plan to legalize some pot
Seattle Times - Apr 04 12:20 AM
Marijuana possession will remain a crime in Canada, the country's new
conservative prime minister said Monday in announcing the demise of...
- Canada's `pot' bill dies amid criticism
Sun-Sentinel - Apr 04 12:09 AM
OTTAWA · Marijuana possession will remain a crime in Canada, the
country's new conservative prime minister said Monday in announcing the
demise of legislation U.S. authorities worried would weaken anti-drug
efforts.
- Canada Won't Legalize Small Amounts of Pot
ABC News - Apr 03 1:28 PM
Prime Minister Says Canada to Scrap Plans to Legalize Small Amounts of
Marijuana
- Canada Scraps Plans to Legalize Marijuana
ABC News - Apr 03 12:43 PM
Canada's New Conservative Party PM Says Legislation to Legalize
Marijuana Won't Be Reintroduced
- Canada Scraps Plans to Legalize Marijuana
AP via Yahoo! News - Apr 03
12:13 PM
Canada's new Conservative Party Prime Minister Stephen Harper said
Monday that Ottawa does not intend to reintroduce legislation to
legalize small amounts of marijuana.
- With New Government, Toronto Police Crack Down On Pot
Officer.com - Apr 03 10:30 AM
Legalization of marijuana was being considered with the previous
government
- High crimes? Canadian sees seeds sprout trouble
Fort Wayne Journal
Gazette - Mar 28 3:03 AM
VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Sweet marijuana smoke tumbles down the
steps from “the Vapor Lounge,” a corner of Marc Emery’s bookstore where
customers toke up at will.
- High Crimes, or A Tokin' Figure?
Washington Post - Mar 18 4:22
AM
VANCOUVER Sweet marijuana smoke tumbles down the steps from "the Vapor
Lounge," a corner of Marc Emery's bookstore where customers
toke up at will.
- WP: DEA balks at Canada's 'Prince of Pot'
MSNBC - Mar 18 3:54 AM
Canadians find Marc Emery, otherwise known as the "Prince of
Pot," to be relatively harmless, but the DEA begs to differ.
- Canada's "Prince of Pot" unbowed by U.S. efforts
Seattle Times - Mar 10 1:19 AM
A canadian marijuana activist wanted by U.S. authorities to face drug
charges said Thursday he thinks being profiled on CBS's "60 Minutes"...
- Marijuana investigation
Hour.ca - Mar 08 10:25 PM
Following a 14-month investigation, RCMP officers recently uncovered a
Montreal organization selling marijuana seeds via the Internet.
- Pot crusader facing life in prison, but 'blessed'
CTV.ca - Mar 06 7:23 AM
After his appearance on 60 Minutes, B.C. pot activist Marc Emery
says he's "blessed" by his international fame -- even though he faces a
life sentence in a U.S. prison for selling marijuana seeds.
- B.C. pot activist says 60 Minutes segment will allow
his real self to be seen
Canadian Press via Yahoo!
News - Mar 02 5:06 PM
VANCOUVER (CP) - Pot crusader Marc Emery says his appearance on
the news program 60 Minutes on Sunday will be an opportunity for
Americans to see him as just an ordinary guy who regards himself as the
Luke Skywalker against their government's Darth Vader tactics.
- The Prince Of Pot
CBS News - Mar 05 4:34 PM
Facing a possible life sentence if extradited to the United States for
selling pot seeds, Canada's "Prince of Pot" tells correspondent Bob
Simon he is "blessed" by such attention because it could help legalize
marijuana.
- A fitting way to honour Chris Doty
London Free Press - Mar 07
12:29 AM
More than three decades before he started working with featherweight
talents such as Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Brendan Fraser and Matt
Dillon, Oscar-winning filmmaker and writer Paul Haggis directed moi in
a production of A. A. Milne's children's classic, The Ugly Duckling.
- B.C. pot activist says 60 Minutes segment will allow
his real self to be seen
Canada.com - Mar 02 5:37 PM
Pot crusader Marc Emery. (CPimages /Sam Leung) VANCOUVER (CP) -
Pot crusader Marc Emery says his appearance on the news program
60 Minutes on Sunday will be an opportunity for Americans to see him as
just an ordinary guy who regards himself as the Luke Skywalker against
their government's Darth Vader tactics.
- On the Tube
winnipegsun.com - Mar 05 12:03
AM
- The Daily Show's Jon Stewart promises to kick the show up a notch --
and yeah, no doubt lob a batch of gay cowboy jokes -- when he hosts the
78th Annual Academy Awards, on ABC Ch. 7 and CKY Ch. 5 at 7 p.m.
Made-in-Winnipeg movie Capote could bag a couple of kudos, but as usual
it's just a thrill to be in the race, as nominee presenters George
Clooney, Reese Witherspoon and Terrence Howard will
- RCMP breaks up Montreal cannabis seed ring
CTV.ca - Feb 28 4:17 PM
The RCMP has busted a Montreal-based drug ring that dealt marijuana
seeds over the Internet. The Mounties say this is the first time
they've targeted an Internet-based operation.
- RCMP announces dismantling of int'l drug ring
CTV.ca - Feb 28 2:23 PM
The RCMP seized 200,000 cannabis seeds and arrested seven people who
allegedly operated a cyberspace drug ring that sold, imported and
exported marijuana seeds on the Internet.
- Babylon, P.Q.
Hour.ca - Feb 15 9:43 PM
Many will remember that filmmaker Albert Nerenberg worked for Hour when
it first began publishing back in 1993, writing a popular and often
poignant city column, This Just In, while instigating and operating
Secret City, a loosely governed, frequently hilarious, quasi-anarchic
creative collective that printed its graphic, video-still-illustrated
commentaries in these pages.
- Wife of failed U.S. medical marijuana refugee pleads
to stay in Canada
Brandon Sun - Jan 09 3:16 PM
VANCOUVER (CP) - The wife of a California man who uses marijuana to
ease his cancer symptoms wept outside Federal Court on Monday after
pleading her family's case to prevent his deportation.
- Wife of failed U.S. medical marijuana refugee pleads
to stay in Canada
CNews - Jan 09 3:22 PM
VANCOUVER (CP) - The wife of a California man who uses marijuana to
ease his cancer symptoms wept outside Federal Court on Monday after
pleading her family's case to prevent his deportation.
- Canada acting as arm of U.S. drug war by staying
charges, lawyer says
Brandon Sun - Jan 05 3:35 PM
VANCOUVER (CP) - A lawyer for pot activist Marc Emery says the
federal government's decision not to proceed with drug charges against
his client clears the way for his possible extradition to the United
States and means the federal government is kowtowing to the Americans.
- Pot crusader allowed to campaign during election
CTV.ca - Dec 09 3:50 AM
A B.C. Supreme Court judge gave marijuana crusader Marc Emery
the green light Thursday to campaign during the federal election.
- B.C. pot crusader facing extradition to campaign for
NDP during election
Brandon Sun - Dec 08 6:50 PM
VANCOUVER (CP) - A B.C. Supreme Court judge gave marijuana crusader Marc
Emery the green light Thursday to campaign during the federal
election but warned the man wanted in the United States for drug
trafficking shouldn't advocate the sale of marijuana seeds in any
speeches.
- Marijuana World
Tucson Weekly - Nov 16 2:47 PM
A look at pot: its users, its trade, its cultivation, the research and
the anti-prohibition movement
- 'Prince of Pot' fights extradition on drug charges
The Sentinel - Nov 02 11:41 AM
Marc Emery differs in so many ways from most people accused
of big-time drug dealing, it's hard to know where to start. Even though
he faces the possibility of decades in a U.S. prison for selling
marijuana seeds to Americans, Emery regularly welcomes a steady stream
of journalists.
- The Mix
The Gamecock - Nov 01 12:34 AM
Surprise players have marked this NFL season - players whose
performances have elevated the level of the game almost in supernatural
terms: Pittsburgh's Ben Roethlisberger, for example, and Philly's
Terrell Owens.
- 'Prince of Pot' fights extradition on drug charges
The Daily Gamecock - Nov 01
12:33 AM
Marc Emery differs in so many ways from most people accused
of big-time drug dealing, it's hard to know where to start.
- `Prince of Pot' fights extradition on drug charges
SanLuisObispo.com - Oct 27
12:03 PM
VANCOUVER, B.C. - Marc Emery differs in so many ways from most
people accused of big-time drug dealing, it's hard to know where to
start.
- `Prince of Pot' fights extradition on drug charges
Macon Telegraph - Oct 27 3:25
AM
VANCOUVER, B.C. - Marc Emery differs in so many ways from most
people accused of big-time drug dealing, it's hard to know where to
start.
- `Prince of Pot' fights extradition on drug charges
TimesLeader.com - Oct 27 3:16
AM
VANCOUVER, B.C. - Marc Emery differs in so many ways from most
people accused of big-time drug dealing, it's hard to know where to
start.
- This bud's for all of us
Ottawa XPress - Oct 27 12:47 AM
When House of Trouble is missing from XPress, some of my friends assume
the worst. A few wonder if I have finally been canned due to
controversial writing; others fear that I have been arrested for some
nefarious marijuana activity, abducted by tactical police on a
DEA-inspired raid. No such luck.
- BC 'Prince of Pot' says drug charges are political
Fox 12 Oregon - Oct 25 12:39 PM
VANCOUVER, British Columbia The head of British Columbia's Marijuana
Party is fighting extradition to Seattle on drug charges because he
says it's a political case.
- B.C.'s "Prince of Pot" fights extradition on drug
charges
Seattle Times - Oct 25 12:16 AM
Marc Emery differs in so many ways from most people accused
of big-time drug dealing, it's hard to know where to start. Even though
he faces...
- Marijuana advocate joins govenor's race
Montgomery Advertiser - Oct 16
2:21 AM
Loretta Nall, a 31-year-old mother of two, is running for governor of
Alabama when she's not busy with her other duties: writing for Can
nabis Culture magazine and serving as president of the U.S. Marijuana
Party.
- Marijuana advocate running for governor of Alabama
WPMI 15 - Oct 15 4:19 PM
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Loretta Nall, a 31-year-old mother of two, is
running for governor of Alabama when she's not busy with her other
duties: writing for Cannabis Culture magazine and serving as president
of the U.S. Marijuana Party.
- Marijuana advocate running for governor of Alabama
Tuscaloosa News - Oct 15 10:39
AM
Loretta Nall, a 31-year-old mother of two, is running for governor of
Alabama when she's not busy with her other duties: writing for Cannabis
Culture magazine and serving as president of the U.S. Marijuana Party.
- Canadian Law Profs Counter CRIA Propaganda
Slashdot - Sep 30 2:15 PM
An anonymous reader writes "The Globe and Mail reports that Canadian
law professors have countered the Canadian recording industry's
misinformation campaign in a new 600-page book that is being made
freely available under a creative commons license. Led by Professor
Michael Geist, the book provides full coverage of the possibility of
Canada adopting DMCA-like copyright laws." From the article:
- Canadian Marijuana Surpasses Wheat as Biggest Crop
(Update2)
Bloomberg.com - Sep 30 11:23 AM
Sept. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Canada's marijuana dealers are converting
suburban homes and abandoned warehouses into pot farms, creating a C$10
billion ($8.5 billion) market that's three times the size of the
nation's biggest legal crop, wheat.
- Canadian Marijuana Surpasses Wheat as Biggest Crop
(Correct)
Bloomberg.com - Sep 30 9:07 AM
(Corrects reference to the chemical in marijuana in 10th paragraph.)
- Private B.C. citizen to file drug charges against pot
activist Marc Emery
Canadian Press via Yahoo!
News - Sep 29 5:27 PM
VANCOUVER (CP) - A private citizen says he's filing charges Friday
against pot activist Marc Emery and two of his associates,
partly because that will throw a wrench into the United States' plans
to extradite the trio to face drug charges in that country.
- Going where the sun does shine
Boston Globe - Sep 28 11:56 PM
I came here for two reasons, both slightly off-center. First, I
suspected that the Newfoundland tourist board doctored its lyrical,
sun-drenched promotional photos of the fogbound Rock, as the province
is called. I wanted to see if the sun ever shone.
- Pot harvest outgrows legal crops in Canada
Salt Lake Tribune - Sep 30
11:20 PM
Canada's marijuana dealers are converting suburban homes and abandoned
warehouses into pot farms, creating an $8.5 billion market that's three
times the size of the nation's biggest legal crop, wheat. Cities such
as Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto may each have as many as 20,000 pot
factories, said Rich Baylin, former national coordinator for the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police. Cultivation is
- Canadian Law Profs Counter CRIA Propaganda
Slashdot - Sep 30 2:05 PM
An anonymous reader writes "The Globe and Mail reports that Canadian
law professors have countered the Canadian recording industry's
misinformation campaign in a new 600-page book that is being made
freely available under a creative commons license. Led by Professor
Michael Geist, the book provides full coverage of the possibility of
Canada adopting DMCA-like copyright laws." From the article:
- Canadian Marijuana Surpasses Wheat as Biggest Crop
(Update2)
Bloomberg.com - Sep 30 11:27 AM
Sept. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Canada's marijuana dealers are converting
suburban homes and abandoned warehouses into pot farms, creating a C$10
billion ($8.5 billion) market that's three times the size of the
nation's biggest legal crop, wheat.
- Canadian Marijuana Surpasses Wheat as Biggest Crop
(Correct)
Bloomberg.com - Sep 30 9:12 AM
(Corrects reference to the chemical in marijuana in 10th paragraph.)
- Private B.C. citizen to file drug charges against pot
activist Marc Emery
Canadian Press via Yahoo!
News - Sep 29 5:27 PM
VANCOUVER (CP) - A private citizen says he's filing charges Friday
against pot activist Marc Emery and two of his associates,
partly because that will throw a wrench into the United States' plans
to extradite the trio to face drug charges in that country.
- Private B.C. citizen to file drug charges against pot
activist Marc Emery
Brandon Sun - Sep 29 1:41 PM
VANCOUVER (CP) - A private citizen says he's filing charges Friday
against pot activist Marc Emery and two of his associates,
partly because that will throw a wrench into the United States' plans
to extradite the trio to face drug charges in that country.
- Private B.C. citizen to file drug charges against pot
activist Marc Emery
Brandon Sun - Sep 29 12:56 PM
VANCOUVER - A private citizen says he's filing charges Friday against
pot activist Marc Emery and two of his associates, partly
because that will throw a wrench into the United States' plans to
extradite the trio to face drug charges in that country.
- Going where the sun does shine
Boston Globe - Sep 28 11:59 PM
I came here for two reasons, both slightly off-center. First, I
suspected that the Newfoundland tourist board doctored its lyrical,
sun-drenched promotional photos of the fogbound Rock, as the province
is called. I wanted to see if the sun ever shone.
- Phillip S. Smith, Editor, psmith at drcnet.org David
Borden, Director Ejecutivo, borden at drcnet.org
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- Police pouring over massive stack of documents seized
from pot crusader
Canada.com - Sep 16 5:43 PM
VANCOUVER (CP) - Police are analyzing piles of documents stretching 20
feet higher than the Empire State building from pot crusader Marc
Emery's computer, court heard on Friday.
- US chases Canadian pot prince
Sydney Morning Herald - Sep 16
8:14 AM
One of the world's leading cannabis legalisation campaigners, a
magazine publisher known as the "Prince of Pot", faced an extradition
hearing yesterday in Vancouver, Canada, as American drug agencies
sought to put him on trial in the US.
- Pot, gay marriage just good business
Canada.com - Sep 16 7:23 AM
MONTREAL -- Freedom isn't just good for civil liberties, filmmaker
Albert Nerenberg suggests in his new documentary Escape to Canada. It's
good for tourism and the economy.
- US takes the war on drugs to Canada's Prince of Pot
Mail and Guardian - Sep 16
4:44 AM
One of the world's leading cannabis legalisation campaigners, a
magazine publisher known as the "Prince of Pot", faces an extradition
hearing on Friday in Vancouver as United States drugs agencies seek to
put him on trial in the US. His supporters claim the move is a first
step by US authorities to prosecute foreigners who challenge the US
laws on cannabis.
- US takes the war on drugs to Canada's Prince of Pot
Guardian Unlimited - Sep 15
7:10 PM
One of the world's leading cannabis legalisation campaigners faces
extradition hearing in Vancouver.
- Phillip S. Smith, Editor, psmith at drcnet.org David
Borden, Director Ejecutivo, borden at drcnet.org
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- Pot bill shelved until after next election
CTV.ca - Sep 11 7:40 PM
The Liberal government's controversial bill to decriminalize marijuana
will be shelved until after the next election, CTV News has learned.
- Pot activist rallies support ahead of extradition
CTV.ca - Sep 11 7:41 AM
Marc Emery took a hit from a joint as his fans smoked and
screamed for his freedom in front of the U.S. consulate.
- Mom puts a B.I.G. hurt on Diddy & Kim
New York Daily News - Sep 09
1:14 AM
The mother of murdered hip-hop star Notorious B.I.G. - gunned down in
1997, presumably by rival rappers - savages Sean (Diddy) Combs and Lil'
Kim in a soon-to-be-published memoir.
- Commentary: Not an outlaw in Canada
Athens News - Sep 01 7:39 AM
U .S. tanks didn't need to roll into Vansterdam to snatch our beloved
Prince of Pot, Marc Emery, on Friday, July 29. All the Yanks
had to do was whisper to the B.C. Supreme Court, and the RCMP, the
Vancouver Police Department and Minister of Justice Irwin Cotler fell
in line.
- Where the weed is at in court
hour - Aug 31 10:37 PM
Canadian judges are once again being asked to go where politicians
obviously can't - to the bottom of the marijuana issue. In the process,
a triumvirate of the hardest of Canada's hardcore marijuana militants
is taking - and being taken - to the courts.
- Twisted pot laws
Northwest Herald - Aug 30
12:10 AM
Marc Emery, publisher of Cannabis Culture magazine, is not
breaking U.S. drug laws, because he is not a U.S. citizen and does not
have to abide by our twisted laws. Emery has been selling marijuana
seeds on the Internet for 10 years, as do many other companies.
- 'Prince of Pot' Emery under fire for web comments
Canoe - Aug 27 10:37 PM
OTTAWA -- Marijuana crusader Marc Emery was under fire this
week as web-loggers scrutinize the content of his websites, including a
posting from his "jail blog" last summer
- Friday, August 26, 2005
Prince Albert Daily
Herald - Aug 26 11:40 AM
As high-profile lawyers line up to represent Marc Emery at his
upcoming extradition hearing, and as marijuana activists pressure
Justice Minister Irwin Cotler to step into the fray, we can’t help but
note that this entire affair need never have happened had the
government and police done their jobs.
- Extradition hearing for Canadian pot activist to begin
Sept. 16
San Diego Union-Tribune - Aug
26 9:32 AM
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, 6:50 a.m. Aug. 26 (AP): An extradition
hearing for a Canadian marijuana activist known as "the prince of pot,"
indicted in Seattle on charges that could send him to prison for life,
is set to begin Sept. 16.
- Emery faces hearing next month
Canoe - Aug 25 11:24 PM
VANCOUVER -- Pot crusader Marc Emery says all Canadians will be
complicit if the United States succeeds in extraditing him to face drug
charges south of the border.
- Extradition hearing for unrepentant B.C. pot activist
to begin Sept. 16
Canada.com - Aug 25 5:20 PM
VANCOUVER (CP) - Pot crusader Marc Emery said Thursday that all
Canadians will be complicit if the United States succeeds in
extraditing him to face drug charges in that country.
- Extradition hearing for unrepentant B.C. pot activist
to begin Sept. 16
Canadian Press via Yahoo!
News - Aug 25 4:52 PM
VANCOUVER (CP) - Pot crusader Marc Emery said Thursday that all
Canadians will be complicit if the United States succeeds in
extraditing him to face drug charges in that country. Emery, 47, made
the comment after a B.C. Supreme Court judge set Sept. 16 as the start
of his extradition hearing that could net him life in prison if he is
convicted on marijuana charges in the U.S.
- Of drugs and thugs
The Globe and Mail - Aug 24
1:09 AM
Vancouver — The timing of Chris Haddock's latest film project is
uncanny. So uncanny, suspicious minds might wonder what kind of
intelligence he's using.
- Penalties for growing marijuana are far too harsh
August 23rd, 2005
Collegiate Times - Aug 22 6:56
PM
How does one address a prince? According to Webster s Dictionary, a
prince is a "nobleman of varying rank and status," and a nobleman is
known to be "possessing, characterized by or arising from superiority
of mind or character or of ideals or morals." Superior rank, mind and
morals?
- The Long Arm of Uncle Sam
Canada.com - Aug 20 4:06 AM
The U.S. Attorney prosecuting three Canadians in the cross-border drug
tunnel case will ask a Seattle judge next week to seize the B.C.
property on which the tunnel was constructed.
- House of Trouble
Ottawa XPress - Aug 17 11:08 PM
In light of the arrest and requested extradition to the United States
of Canadian marijuana activist Marc Emery, I thought I'd talk
to an expert about Canada's drug laws and policy to find out if the
government is stoned or if I am.
- House of Trouble
Ottawa XPress - Aug 17 11:07 PM
In light of the arrest and requested extradition to the United States
of Canadian marijuana activist Marc Emery, I thought I'd talk
to an expert about Canada's drug laws and policy to find out if the
government is stoned or if I am.
- Phillip S. Smith, Editor, psmith at drcnet.org David
Borden, Director Ejecutivo, borden at drcnet.org
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- 'Prince Of Pot's' Extradition To U.S. Angers Canadians
Free Internet Press - Aug 16
2:27 PM
For years, Canadian authorities ignored the lucrative mail-order
marijuana business run by Marc Emery, Canada's most prominent
proponent for legalizing weed. The self-styled "Prince of Pot" sold
cannabis seeds via the internet to customers all over the world,
including the United States.