Pubdate: Tue, 08 Jul 2014
Source: Windsor Star (CN ON)
Copyright: 2014 The Windsor Star
Contact:  http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/501
Author: Dalson Chen
Page: A2
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'PRINCE OF POT' TO BE RELEASED FROM JAIL

Might Be Returned to Windsor

Notorious marijuana activist Marc Emery will soon finish a five-year 
sentence in U.S. federal prison - and he expects he'll be repatriated 
to Canada via Windsor.

The self-described "Prince of Pot" is due for release on Wednesday. 
According to the last entry in his personal blog, he will then be 
taken to a detention centre in Louisiana for processing, and 
eventually flown to Detroit for escort over the border.

"I get the ... long, drawn-out, delayed route to an unceremonious 
drop-off - in Windsor, Ont. at that, not even to my home in 
Vancouver," Emery griped. He estimates he'll arrive in Windsor - 
under the care of two U.S. Marshals - sometime between Aug. 10 and 25.

It's his understanding he'll be taken through the tunnel for delivery 
to Canadian citizenship and immigration officials.

Now 56, Emery has been incarcerated since September 2009 for selling 
cannabis seeds to U.S. customers through a mail-order business he 
started in 1995.

An outspoken proponent of marijuana cultivation and use, Emery is the 
founder of Cannabis Culture magazine and has made several attempts at 
political office on a pro-legalization platform.

His many run-ins with the law came to a head in 2005, when Vancouver 
police - acting on a request by the U.S. Drug Enforcement 
Administration - raided Emery's bookstore and seed business.

Emery was arrested and charged with conspiracy to distribute marijuana.

In a statement at the time, the DEA described Emery as a 
"propagandist" who generated $5 million a year in illicit profits 
from the marijuana trade.

Emery fought the extradition in court until mid-2009, when he finally 
pleaded guilty and agreed to a five-year sentence.

Since then, he's been held in federal prisons in Georgia and Mississippi.

His release is 235 days early due to good conduct.

Emery wrote that he hopes to have his wife and fellow marijuana 
advocate Jodie Emery waiting in Windsor upon his return.

"We will have an impromptu gathering somewhere (in) Windsor after my 
arrival, and within 12 hours I will take the train or some transport 
to Toronto, where we will have another party at Vapor Central," Emery 
wrote on his blog.
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