Pubdate: Fri, 26 Aug 2005
Source: Vancouver 24hours (CN BC)
Copyright: 2005, Canoe Inc
Contact:  http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/3837
Author: Irwin Loy
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/pot.htm (Cannabis)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?196 (Emery, Marc)

CANADIANS PLAYED ROLE IN POT: EMERY

Pot activist Marc Emery says every Canadian will be to blame if he gets 
shipped off to the U.S. to face drug charges.

The B.C. Marijuana Party leader says he's contributed thousands to various 
political parties and paid hundreds of thousands in taxes to the federal 
and provincial governments. Yet he claims he didn't receive a single 
complaint about his online seed selling business before the U.S. Drug 
Enforcement Administration busted him.

"Everybody in Canada knows what I've been doing," Emery said outside B.C. 
Supreme Court yesterday. ". . . So if I get taken away for the rest of my 
life to a U.S. prison, then every Canadian has let it happen because they 
tacitly and explicitly condoned my behaviour."
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