Marijuana news and drug law reform; world politics and history; Government corruption and lies; reading and writing; cannabis smoking; exposing the US Drug War for the atrocity it is; working on our magazine and the freedom revolution; playing with my cat Max; fashion and interior design.
Music
Everything... or most stuff. Favorite right now: "Ron Paul 4 Freedom" - Knights of Liberty
Movies
Lots of movies and documentaries are great. Currently I recommend: The Power of Nightmares; 9/11 Martial Law; Freedom to Fascism; The War on Democracy; Waiting to Inhale - Medical Marijuana and the Law; Zeitgeist; Apocalypse Now; Mr. Smith Goes to Washington; All the President's Men; American Beauty; V for Vendetta; Pulp Fiction; many more...
Television
The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, any Ron Paul media coverage, Big Love, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Larry Sanders Show, The War At Home, Reno 911, Rescue Me, Weeds, Trailer Park Boys, CNN, MSNBC, CBC, BBC - any news station really...
Books
Reading right now: "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" by John Perkins; "It's the Crude, Dude" by Linda Mcquaig; and I just finished "Mrs. Kennedy: The Missing Kennedy Years" by Barbara Leaming
Heroes
Marc Emery, Ron Paul, Jacqueline Kennedy (Jackie O)
Marc Emery faces life imprisonment in the USA for activities is Canada. Is it about marijuana seeds, political dissidence, or national sovereignty? Should he be extradited to the USA, and can Canadians do anything about it? Watch "Prince of Pot: The US vs. Marc Emery" and decide for yourself!
Canadian Marc Emery, Canada's most prominent marijuana legalization activist, is at the top of the U.S, Drug Enforcement Agency's 'Most Wanted List' and now faces extradition to the U.S. and possible life imprisonment. His crime - selling marijuana seeds over the Internet. An occupation he has never denied. In fact for more than a decade he has dutifully filed his income tax returns in Canada stating his occupation as "marijuana seed seller". He paid his taxes and was left alone by the Canadian authorities. However Canada's RCMP suddenly and willingly co-operated when the DEA got him in their sights.
Widely known as "The Prince of Pot," Emery is the joint smoking publisher of Cannabis Culture Magazine, founder of the BC Marijuana Party and a lifelong rabble-rouser. And now, according to the DEA, one of the most wanted men in the drug world, up there with the heads of Columbian cocaine cartels, and the top drug trafficker in North America. His story is the prism through which director, Nick Wilson, examines the touchy issue of sovereignty, the long reach of U.S. drug laws, and Canadian pot culture, while spending the summer embedded at the Emery defense headquarters.
Emery believes marijuana is a wonderful, healing drug and that current laws are unconstitutional, inhumane, and detrimental to society, far outweighing the damage done to people by the drug itself. No Canadian has ever gone to jail for selling seeds, and in 35 years only two people have been charged - the last got a $200 fine. Yet Emery faces 30 years to life in prison under U.S. drug laws if he is extradited to face trail there.
THE PRINCE OF POT follows Emery through the summer and fall as he plots his defense, attends court hearings and tries to clear the names of his two friends who now face the same fate as him.
The Prince of Pot: The U.S. vs. Marc Emery is directed by Nick Wilson and produced by Anne Pick, Real to Reel Productions (Toronto).
www.cbc.ca/thelens www.NoExtradition.net
www.YouTube.com/PrinceOfPot has the "Prince of Pot: The US vs. Marc Emery" TV broadcast uploaded for viewing! See it by watching the following five videos!
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Part Five, End
Watch this Pot-TV video interview with Jodie Emery, Marc Emery, and "Prince of Pot" Director Nick Wilson!
Who I'd like to meet: Marc and I at the Vancouver Art Gallery downtown on Canada "Cannabis" Day, July 1st 2006, collecting petition signatures and signing copies of our publication, Cannabis Culture Magazine:
Keep Canadians in Canada! Call the Justice Minister, demand he refuse extradition!
(613) 957-4222
Please, help save Canadian cannabis activists from extradition to the US and life in US prison for peaceful, non-violent activities in CANADA!
Call the Justice Minister of Canada and leave a message saying he should not committ Marc Emery, Michelle Rainey, or Greg Williams to extradition to the USA, a country none of them have been to or committed crimes in!
Five Things You Can Do to Help Save the BC3 from Extradition to the USA
Marc Emery, Michelle Rainey, and Greg Williams (the BC3) are Canadian citizens who were heavily involved in anti-prohibition activism in Canada for more than ten years. The United States is attempting to extradite these Canadian cannabis activists to face 10 years to life in US federal prison. Here are five things that anyone can do to help prevent the BC3 from being extradited. Please don't just read this list and then do nothing. This is a crucial battle about national sovereignty, individual freedom, and ending the drug war – a battle we must win.
1) Contact the Canadian Justice Minister – Constantly!
Canada's Justice Minister is currently Robert Nicholson of the Conservative Party. It is largely his decision whether Canada will extradite the BC3. No matter where you are in the world, please contact the Justice Minister every week – we definitely need active vocal and written support from Canadians, Americans and the international community. The goal is to keep the phone line constantly tied up with calls and voice mails about the BC3, so that the Justice Department phones are ringing steadily about the case every day. Always be very polite when you call, and say that you are calling because it would "shock your conscience" for the BC3 to be extradited to the US for alleged crimes committed on Canadian soil. Say that you believe that if the BC3 have broken the law in Canada, they should be tried in Canada, under Canadian laws. If you have access to a fax machine then please also send a daily or weekly fax as well. Weekly phone calls, faxes, and especially handwritten letters that are polite and concisely composed are effective political pressure. When writing mail, ask for a response in writing from the Justice Minister himself.
The Honourable Robert Douglas Nicholson
Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada
284 Wellington Street, Ottawa, Ontario
Canada K1A 0H8
tel: (613) 957-4222
fax: (613) 990-7255
2) Contact The Media
Please contact all of the following newspapers with a new letter every week. Don't write something long and full of details. Instead, send a short letter (under 200 words) that offers quick facts about the American efforts to extradite the BC3, why you oppose it, and why others should too. (Key point: Sovereignty!) Don't just send one mass email to all of these media at once, but email them individually. Write different letters about the same topic, and send them to the media every week. A more thorough list of Canadian media outlets is online: http://mapinc.org/cmap/press.htm
3) Contact your Member of Parliament and Member of Legislative Assembly
If you are in Canada, then contact both your MP and your MLA. Try to make an appointment for a personal visit. Also have every one of your friends and family members each make their own phone call as well. The more calls they receive the better. Just say that you are calling because you want your elected representative to oppose the extradition of any Canadian to a foreign country when their actions are not considered a serious crime in Canada. Remind them that Emery is the leader of a legitimate political party, that the Canadian government has knowingly collected taxes from his US seed sales for a decade, and that Emery has operated openly without interference from Canadian police since 1998. Tell your MP and MLA that Canada should not be sending political activists to jail in foreign countries, especially when their actions are not even considered to be an "arrestable offence" in Canada. You can find your MP online at www.parl.gc.ca and you can find your MLA at these websites:
Marc, Michelle and Greg are accumulating huge legal bills in order to fight the extradition, but were robbed of their livelihoods with the raid and closure of Emery Seeds. But they are still determined to help the movement by spreading awareness about the drug war through the political party, magazine and store! Please consider donating to or buying from the BC Marijuana Party (www.bcmarijuanaparty.com), Cannabis Culture Magazine (www.cannabisculture.com/newstore), or Marc Emery's Cannabis Culture Headquarters store (307 West Hastings Street, Vancouver BC, 604-682-1172).
5) Rally in your community
If you are in Canada, then try to put on a rally in your community to protest this incursion of the US Drug War into Canada. The focus of your rally should not be on the marijuana laws, but rather that Canadians within Canada are not subject to US law. The Canadian courts and people have decided that selling marijuana seeds is a trivial, non-arrestable offence. The Canadian government has steadily collected sizable taxes from Marc Emery's US seed sales for 10 years. If Emery has broken the law in Canada then he should be charged and tried here. If he has broken no laws in Canada then he should not be extradited to the US for a life sentence. If there is a US consulate office in your city that is a good place to rally at, otherwise use a park or other government building. Please contact us at the BC Marijuana Party and Cannabis Culture Magazine to let us know what you are up to.
Send any mail to “No Extradition” 307 West Hastings Street, Vancouver BC, V6B 1H6, Canada
I'm editor of Cannabis Culture magazine and an avid anti-prohibition activist with my husband Marc Emery. Our mission is to end marijuana prohibition and stop the US government's Drug War campaign. I hope to be part of a world-wide Peace Revolution.
No human being should ever be punished in any way for having a relationship with the God-given plants on this earth. People have an inate right to all herbs, fruits, trees, grasses, and every other natural part of our world.
I have three goals in life that remain close to my heart:
I was happily Married on July 23rd, 2006 to my hero, best friend, and lover, Marc Scott Emery. I will never leave his side, never give up his mission, and never stop fighting for freedom, peace, and personal liberation. I hope for a future together, forever, in our beautiful home county of Canada!
The Korean Supreme Court upheld an eight-month prison sentence for actress Kim Bu-sun, whose arrest for smoking marijuana in July 2004 led to national debate about the country's pot laws. Kim was quickly found guilty, but later filed a petition arguing that the ban on marijuana was unconstitutional. That petition was rejected by the high court, and now the court has upheld her prison sentence.
Hey Jodie, It's Jeniffer Z here. Thanks for adding Small Acts. This is what I've been working on for the last few years, and am excited as it grows to help more and more people. We are sponsoring three children to go to school and helping in the AIDS/HIV orphanage, the young mother's orphanage, and the orphanage for abandoned children in Kingston, Jamaica. This weekend we were accepted by Lawyers Without Borders after waiting for almost a year, and so we should have our 501-C3 status soon enough. Visit our website at www. smallacts. info to keep up with new developments. Bless! One Love! Jen
