Marc Emery Battles the DEA and Extradition: 2005 News Coverage

May 2010 Update: Marc Emery was extradited to the USA and is awaiting sentencing on September 10th, 2010. Please go to http://www.FreeMarc.ca for more information and ways to help FREE MARC EMERY!

News clips from the day of the DEA raid on Marc Emery Direct Seeds (July 29th, 2005) and media from the day Marc was released from jail one week later. Great early coverage and information about the whole situation.

The first clip is about an unrelated marijuana grow busted in Ontario, but moves right into the Marc Emery & DEA story.

The sound and video quality improve after the first segment, so please watch the entire video!

Go to www.cannabisculture.com to find out more information about Marc Emery, the DEA, and the extradition request.


A note about Emery Seeds and the DEA:

There are many other seed banks in Europe and Canada that sell to the United States, and there were even 3 other seed stores on the very same block as Marc Emery Seeds. Marc was not the first or biggest bank to sell seeds to the United States by mail. The difference between those seed sellers and Marc Emery is that Marc boldly announced he was using all the seed proceeds to end the drug war by financing anti-prohibition activities.


Marc Emery speaks out against the US Drug War in the media, election campaigns (he leads an official provincial political party, one that ran a full slate of candidates in 2001), and his 13-year-old magazine Cannabis Culture. He criticized the US Drug Czar John Walters to his face when Walters had the gall to come to Vancouver in 2001 and tell our mayor to adopt his US War on Drugs.

The media loved the confrontation, and the mayor (and mayor-elect) both criticized Walters' heavy-handed and illogical approach. But Walters, and the White House he works for, were pissed off at Marc... and that's when the investigation began in the US, even though a Canadian court had earlier thrown out a Vancouver Police-led investigation and case because it had no merit.

Read the DEA press release from the day of the raid - it clearly explains why Marc Emery was targeted.

http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/4685.html

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[deadmenshitting]

That guy is a goddamn hero.

[ruftarza]

to all motherfuckerz who hate cannabis:

think in 15-20 years all you old politics in the parlament you will bee old as fuck! and there will come younger politics that will legalized!!! fuck off,we win!!! you old twats!!!! ha,ha,ha,i'm going on a joint right now fuckerz!!!!

[HodgeYMusic]

Free Emery <3

[shikira]

Id rather people be smoking pot then crack or meth or whatever. The US needs to pull their head in and worry about their own country and people and leave the rest of the world alone.

[chavez2d]

wow the us gov. wants to give this guy life in prision for selling mary jane seeds. shit they should be putting those who bought the seeds in the u.s. not this guy. WOW they got nothing else to do with our tax dollars but to bring a canadian down for seeds. Shit for life he might as well kill the fools that wants to extraditie him back to the US.

[canadiancosnnoisseur]

@daddytangee if your smoking in public they might tell you to go smoke somewhere else or put it out thats about it...def not gunna be running from police lol

[canadiancosnnoisseur]

@daddytangee i donno in b.c. its pretty slack everywhere,same with other provinces i guess..its usualy no more then a traffic ticket if you are caught with under 3 ozs,still a dui if your high while driving...they will take your license if your car is hotboxed and you got roaches lolol,def wont go to jail unless your moving pounds and stuff and even then you wont go for long at all.i smoke infront of mcdonalds on the outside table while i eat burgers...tons of people there..

[daddytangee]

@canadiancosnnoisseur hahaha never! and ya idk why people think that america is great.... i guess we do have a lot o rednecks lol, but i honestly might move to Canada sumday (maybe even road trip this summer ) but not mexico i like my life.... btw is it like that around all of Canada where u can smoke weed? like wheres the good places to go

[canadiancosnnoisseur]

@daddytangee yea its wierd so man y people who live in your country think its almost flawless perfect and free....far from it compaired to canada.....cops see me all the time smoking joints on the sidewalk....they never stop...iv had cops even come in my house n ask if i wus blazing and i sed yea i just smoked a joint and he just said ok lol...came out ask my friend if he was blazing to ...he sed no...the cop said WELL YOU SHOULDNT BE HANGIN OUT WITH THIS GUY lolol try that in america ahaha

[daddytangee]

@canadiancosnnoisseur lol ik ik, but one last thing to say bout america

we are considered land of the free....but we lock up more people in the entire world ......weird lol

jus somethin to let ya think bout haha peace

[WashMyBeamer]

oh and dont trust no one.

[WashMyBeamer]

you cant beat the government, they got guns and shit. just smoke up and enjoy your life.