Marc Emery Extradited to USA and Sentenced

[apanihi]

Yeah, it was on the local news here yesterday. I think they only reason he got 5 years is because he pissed off the DEA so much. Washington is usually pretty easy on growers.

All because he took the funds and gave it to pro marijuana legalization institutions. So he essentially challenged part of why the DEA exists. They felt threatened and went and got him. I just can't believe Canada handed him over so easy. I also can't believe he got 5 years that's a long freaking time.

 

[chongsbuddy]

its not that bad,he got 5 years,4 of which he is on probation,so a year sentance which he will probably serve 4 months in prison,not bad.

 

[feral]

its not that bad,he got 5 years,4 of which he is on probation,so a year sentance which he will probably serve 4 months in prison,not bad.

4 months is too long, esp. when you consider they'll fill the prisons with those of us that have any kind of dealings with the 'Devil Weed', yet they sure as hell won't put that much effort into going after hardcore criminals that are causing harm and/or child molestor's, rapist's, etc.

 

[Greenstar420]

Damn that sucks but I'm glad he wont be doing much time in the scope of things. I'm pretty sure he might have to do that full year if he is serving fed time. Pretty sure they dont have good time in the fed system, though I heard talk of that possibly changing...

 

[apanihi]

its not that bad,he got 5 years,4 of which he is on probation,so a year sentance which he will probably serve 4 months in prison,not bad.

Well according to this "The man once known as Canada's "prince of pot" is now a federal inmate in the U.S. system after a judge in Washington sentenced him Friday to five years in prison."

5 years in federal prison with good time off you do 85% of the time given to you.

I guess I don't understand what 4 years probation means here, included as part of the 5 years or included on top of the 5 years.

"By imposing the five-year sentence, which includes four years of supervised probation, U.S. District Judge Ricardo S. Martinez honored a plea deal that Emery, 52, entered into with U.S. authorities to avoid a lengthier sentence."

 

[chongsbuddy]

1 year in prison,5 years probation afterwards.so really,4 months in prison and 60 months probation.he is the prince of pot,i dont think he would have too many problems in federal prison,he is a hero to a lot of criminals.

 

[headband 707]

This is what we should really worry about.

This is what we should really worry about.

Canada’s prince of pot, Marc Emery, spent Labour Day in a U.S. prison reading a newspaper column by his former prosecutor saying anti-cannabis laws are “dangerous and wrong.”
In an insult to injury that should cause Ottawa to blush, the man who hounded Emery to face American drug and money-laundering charges declares the pot prohibition should be ended.
John McKay, now a Seattle University law professor, argued in the weekend article that the war against marijuana has failed, actually threatens public safety and rests on false medical assumptions.
“I DON’T smoke pot,” Seattle’s former U.S. attorney insisted. “And I pretty much think people who do are idiots.”
But McKay added: “As Emery’s prosecutor and a former federal law-enforcement official, however, I’m not afraid to say out loud what most of my former colleagues know is true: Our marijuana policy is dangerous and wrong and should be changed through the legislative process to better protect the public safety.”
The DEA insisted in 2005 Emery was one of the world’s “most wanted international drug trafficking organizational targets.” Today McKay admits “our 1930s-era marijuana prohibition was overkill from the beginning.”
What a travesty of justice!
“The hypocrisy of him being my prosecutor and still supporting my sentencing (he doesn’t condemn it) while admitting that the law is wrong and counterproductive is unsaid – but it needs to be,” Emery complained in an e-mail from jail where he is awaiting sentencing.
“I am victimized by the law for hurting no one.”
From the moment of Emery’s 2005 arrest, I have said his extradition was wrong.
He openly sold seeds in Vancouver for more than a decade and no one was willing to enforce our law — the underhand tactic by Vancouver cops to outsource justice to the Americans was offensive.
In response to the outcry following Emery’s arrest, police did lay a couple of other charges.
A 36-year-old Courtenay man was given a month in jail for the identical offence. In March 2008, the Court of Appeal said that was an appropriate punishment for selling seeds.
In Montreal, Richard Baghdadlian of Overgrow.com and Heaven’s Stairway, was also busted shortly after Emery and given a conditional sentence of two years less a day — that is, no jail time.
Hundreds of Canadian seed companies still sell into the U.S. market.
Emery, of course, was targeted by the DEA because he was out to end the cannabis prohibition.
The Americans said Emery earned $5 million from his illicit catalogue business and channelled hundreds of thousands to pro-marijuana groups.
“Drug legalization lobbyists now have one less pot of money to rely on,” the DEA punned in its press release. How funny.
“If changing U.S. marijuana policy was ever Emery’s goal, the best that can be said is that he took the wrong path,” was McKay’s attempt to put him down.
Wrong: It looks to me like Emery lost the battle and won the war.
In November, California will vote on a new legal tax-and-regulate proposition. Similar initiatives are planned for Oregon and Washington in 2011, and Colorado in 2012. More than a dozen states with medical marijuana programs are following California’s path.
Too bad Emery’s paying a far too hefty price for his prescience — having promoted a more sensible public policy and a more truthful debate around cannabis — while the intellectually dishonest gloat that, well, okay, they are wrong and the law’s an ass, but Emery still should be punished.
I remain ashamed that Canada handed him over to the U.S. rather than react to their concerns by prosecuting him.
On Friday Emery is to be sentenced to five years in a U.S. penitentiary under a plea bargain. Five years! In Canada you can kill someone and not do that kind of time.
“My incarceration costs taxpayers money they don’t have to perpetuate a policy that doesn’t work in a state where the majority say they want marijuana legal,” Emery said. “So who are the idiots?”
Regrets?
“I do have regrets,” he confided. “I regret that my methods of selling seeds to Americans put me in jail and took me away from my wife. I miss her dearly and think of her every day. I cry over it frequently in my cell or when I speak to Jodie on the phone. But then I have to consider what became of the $4 million I gave away to American and Canadian activists and lobby groups.”
Emery can hold his head up; it’s a shame those who prosecuted him can’t do the same.
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[JJScorpio]

1 year in prison,5 years probation afterwards.so really,4 months in prison and 60 months probation.he is the prince of pot,i dont think he would have too many problems in federal prison,he is a hero to a lot of criminals.

He's sentenced to 5 years in prison and 4 years of post prison probation.

The good news is he can apply to the Canadian Government to do his time there. It was part of his deal. If Canada agrees, then he can apply to the US Corrections for transfer. If accepted I believe he would do less than 2 years.....

I guess we're about to find out what part the Canadian Govt played in his arrest.....

Jodi pretty much set the pace today for both Govt's to refuse his application. Why in hells name, on the day he's sentenced would she say, "This fight is not over"? It's the cocky aggogant attitude that got him where he is.

 

[headband 707]

He's sentenced to 5 years in prison and 4 years of post prison probation.

The good news is he can apply to the Canadian Government to do his time there. It was part of his deal. If Canada agrees, then he can apply to the US Corrections for transfer. If accepted I believe he would do less than 2 years.....

I guess we're about to find out what part the Canadian Govt played in his arrest.....

Jodi pretty much set the pace today for both Govt's to refuse his application. Why in hells name, on the day he's sentenced would she say, "This fight is not over"? It's the cocky aggogant attitude that got him where he is.[/quote

I suppose we could look at it like that it's your cocky aroggant big mouth that has put you in this mess you are in today. I'm sure if we look real close we will see that our system is really this shallow that it can actually put a man in jail for 5 years for standing up for what we all know is the truth.Truth btw that has helped countless sick and dying ppl. Then I would have to say if your going to go after him then what about all the other vendors out there ? WTF? Seems a bit weird don't you think?All this for cash right lol. I guess we could say hey yeah they are right Marc should have shut up and not fucked with the DEA or the USA and the Canadian's BULLSHIT laws involving cannabis which leaves everyone where exactly?I must admit I'm surprised at this reaction coming from this board. peace out Headband707

 

[Snowberry]

Pot prohibition is dead wrong and we all here know it only too well. The prosecutor "Outing" himself and stating the prohibition laws in America are not just, didn't seem to have any problem inflicting an unjust law penalty of 5 years on Marc.

We here in Canada had a former Prime Minister affectionately known as "Lyin Brian" admit accepting $300k in bribes while in office, yet no charges or fines from the taxman for tax evasion....it is a matter of public record gleaned from testimony of himself and Karl Heinz Schriber before a Senate committee in Ottawa.

How's that for Justice?

By the way or sitting Prime Minister and Brian were longtime pals, but now Lyin Brian has come clean, doesn't seem to remember him.

Our Justice Minister Vic Towes will only dance as far as Harper's puppet strings allow him to.

Here's to hope....hope that brings freedom and justice soon to the world cannabis family.

 

[CosmicGiggle]

marc gets no sympathy from me.

He wanted to play the role of Cannabis Martyr/Saviour.

He threatened to rat out his ripped-off customers to USA LEO.

Now he's the one in prison and no one but jodie is crying.

How's that for Justice?

 

[JJScorpio]

Did you watch his interview on 60 minutes? It was the most arrogant, chidish thing I ever saw. He was bragging, taunting and daring. Lets get on national TV, and brag about crimes and taunt the most powerful Country in the world. He knew what he was doing. No one made him do it.

He's not in prison for selling seeds. That's just the excuse. If you don't know that you shouldn't be in this argument. He taunted his own Country to swell his ego, and when that got boring he decided to really impress people with that 60 min segment.

And again I hear about "all he did by giving money", but when he was asked to prove who he gave money to, he couldn't.

His forums were loaded with perverted comments regarding sex with minors and I honestly thing he has a thing for teens. I'm not sure about where you live, but where I live a 40ish man goes to prison for having sex with a 14 year old. He's not idolized.

I can keep going on, but I'm not going to. But don't God him on these forums. Instead, show me where all the "millions" in donations went. Show me something he didn't do for Marc Emery.....

With that said, I don't feel anyone should be in prison for selling seeds or growing. And in my opinion he's not. And the truths going to hit everyone in the face when he applies to Canada to serve his sentence there........

He's sentenced to 5 years in prison and 4 years of post prison probation.

The good news is he can apply to the Canadian Government to do his time there. It was part of his deal. If Canada agrees, then he can apply to the US Corrections for transfer. If accepted I believe he would do less than 2 years.....

I guess we're about to find out what part the Canadian Govt played in his arrest.....

Jodi pretty much set the pace today for both Govt's to refuse his application. Why in hells name, on the day he's sentenced would she say, "This fight is not over"? It's the cocky aggogant attitude that got him where he is.[/quote

I suppose we could look at it like that it's your cocky aroggant big mouth that has put you in this mess you are in today. I'm sure if we look real close we will see that our system is really this shallow that it can actually put a man in jail for 5 years for standing up for what we all know is the truth.Truth btw that has helped countless sick and dying ppl. Then I would have to say if your going to go after him then what about all the other vendors out there ? WTF? Seems a bit weird don't you think?All this for cash right lol. I guess we could say hey yeah they are right Marc should have shut up and not fucked with the DEA or the USA and the Canadian's BULLSHIT laws involving cannabis which leaves everyone where exactly?I must admit I'm surprised at this reaction coming from this board. peace out Headband707

 

[supermanlives]

play the game ,pay the price. he got what he wanted recognition worldwide

 

[EdddieVHalen]

Very interesting. I just seen Jodie the other day and she looked pretty bad.

 

[headband 707]

So now that their #1 supplier and threat to the USA the most powerful nation in the world which we are constantly reminded of till we puke. I guess you won't have to worry about anymore cannabis in your country???? I mean he really is the great evil threat lets face it LOL.. ffs. How dare anyone say no to the DEA or the USA how dare anyone say fuck you guy get the fuck out and leave us alone!!!!!! Go fuck up your own country and leave us alone .. Your so powerful then by all mean go push somone else around as were sick and tired of your bullying ways all over the fucking world! Atleast not till they have everything in place and they want to make it legal and make money off of it then they will let everyone else know what they can do until then we kiss ass I guess? I did just watch the 60 min show,,, AND? not sure what you seen that set you off? I think it's the USA's DEA that needs to get it straight and not the other way around. We obviouly see things differently I see no man as a God but I see no Gov. and bow down to no Gov either acting like what Marc did was some how criminal and the US can come to Canada and take him with your laws .. Fuck that shit and fuck the Canadain lawyers and Gov for letting it happen. peace out Headband707

I just put up a "Chimp raping a frog" that was binned by you guys" saying it wasn't appropriate for IC Mag but to each his own ".well that is how we feel when the USA comes to town we are the FROG and the USA is the CHIMP!

wasn't like I threw up 2 ladies an a cup

 

[Japanfreakier]

marc gets no sympathy from me.

He wanted to play the role of Cannabis Martyr/Saviour.

He threatened to rat out his ripped-off customers to USA LEO.

Now he's the one in prison and no one but jodie is crying.

A lot of people are crying and a lot of people have a lot of sympathy for him.

Someday you'll get busted and even though I think you're an ass for the comment, I'll still feel sorry for you.

 

[Madrus Rose]

All because he took the funds and gave it to pro marijuana legalization institutions. So he essentially challenged part of why the DEA exists. They felt threatened and went and got him. I just can't believe Canada handed him over so easy. I also can't believe he got 5 years that's a long freaking time.

They never busted Joe Kennedy for Whisky smuggling or the whisky soaked smuggling family "The Bronfmans " , headquartered originally in Canada, and smuggling booze through Minnesota, became the Kennedy clan's successor and alter ego ...who's flagship later was the Bank of Montreal & International Booze empire "Seagrams".

alas , history doesn't always punish the real criminals , but they finally caught up to a few on Wall St . Can anyone say "Bernie Madoff" & $65Bil rip off & 20yr ponzi scheme ?

 

[!PeAcE!]

He is going to love his first joint when he gets out! I bet the stuff 5 years from now will knock his pants off!! Im sure his buddies will have plenty waiting for him! Marc is just another guy with a dream and I know I can only speak for myself, But I will always respect a man with a dream (within reason of course), Marc's dream was searching for a perfect world but having to climb through the tangled jungle of leo, Im sure in most if not all cases he did what he had to do. I will always FIND a reason to respect before I LOOK for the one to hate.

 

[salbahe]

The case of Marc is simply the U.S. being the U. ASS. of A (the higher ups not the common man)

 

[harpocrates]

His forums were loaded with perverted comments regarding sex with minors and I honestly thing he has a thing for teens. I'm not sure about where you live, but where I live a 40ish man goes to prison for having sex with a 14 year old. He's not idolized.

Show me the proof of this, I want quotes. You ask for proof, I'm asking the same.

People that complain about his prices and call him a crook are a bit silly considering the owner of this forum. I know that myself and my friends received their orders from ME, yet a few of us are out a couple of hundred bucks for stuff that never came from Gypsy... does that make Gypsy a crook?

The only thing (that I've seen), ME guilty of is being a bit of a twat.