Pubdate: Mon, 24 Jul 2006
Source: Metro (CN BC)
Copyright: Metro 2006
Contact:  http://www.metronews.ca/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/3775
Author: Jeff Hodson, Metro Vancouver
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?196 (Emery, Marc)

HIGH ON EMOTION

So-Called Prince Of Pot Emery, Bride Share Wedding-Day Bliss, Spliff

Marc Emery and his bride Jodie Giesz-Ramsay share smiles during their
wedding ceremony at Queen Elizabeth Park yesterday. Emery faces
extradition to the United States for allegedly selling marijuana seeds
over the Internet to buyers in the States.

Despite facing possible future incarceration in a U.S. prison,
Vancouver's so-called Prince of Pot tied the knot to his smokin'
fiancee yesterday evening.

Marc Emery, 48, exchanged vows with Jodie Giesz-Ramsay, 21, assistant
editor of Emery's pro-marijuana magazine Cannabis Culture.

The pair married beneath a white tent, amid the roses of Queen
Elizabeth Park, surrounded by approximately 50 family, friends and
supporters.

"She's my intellectual heir," Emery said of his bride, prior to the
ceremony. "She can continue to run (Cannabis Culture). She'll have the
authority of my name to run the magazine and PotTV, and credibility
when she speaks on my behalf."

Emery, who faces extradition to the U.S. for allegedly selling
marijuana seeds over the Internet to buyers in the U.S., proposed to
Giesz-Ramsay in January. Their engagement was announced at the
beginning of the month. He returns to court at the end of August to
set a date for his extradition hearing.

Looking stunning as she stepped out of a limousine in her white gown,
Giesz-Ramsay was escorted across the rose garden lawn by her father as
well as five bridesmaids wearing wine-coloured dresses.

Guests blew soap bubbles during the short ceremony, which was
conducted by a marriage commissioner.

Following the wedding, a reception was held at Heritage Hall, followed
by a late-night party at the Vapour Lounge of the Marijuana Party
headquarters. "She was a fan of mine," said Emery, when asked how he
met his future wife. "When she was 16 she wrote me and we corresponded
for years."

At 19, Giesz-Ramsay moved to Vancouver and began assisting Emery --
who was in a Saskatoon jail at the time -- transcribing his comments
and posting them on the Internet for people to read.

For the past 18 months, the two have worked side-by-side, publishing
seven editions of Cannabis Culture.

The deadline for their next edition is Wednesday, Emery said, putting
the honeymoon on hold for three days.

After the ceremony the bride, wearing a long, white strapless wedding
dress, lit up what she called a "wedding doobie."

The Emerys then shared, in front of a crowd of media, their first
joint as husband and wife, inhaling the smoke and then kissing each
other.

"I will support him no matter what happens in any situation,"
Giesz-Ramsay said shortly after the wedding. "I'm just so happy right
now to be married to him."
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