Vancouver's own "Prince of Pot," Marc Emery, turned himself in to authorities at the B.C. Supreme Court Monday. He currently sits in a Port Coquitlam penitentiary awaiting extradition to the U.S. to begin a five-year sentence for selling marijuana seeds to Americans.

Nothing will be done until Justice Minister Rob Nicholson signs Emery's extradition order, which could take anywhere from two weeks to two months.

Emery, 51, has been fighting extradition since 2005, when he and two others were indicted on conspiracy to distribute marijuana and conspiracy to engage in money laundering. Both of those charges were dropped in exchange for his guilty plea on the charge of conspiracy to manufacture marijuana in connection with his $3 million-a-year catalogue business between 1998 and 2005. U.S. officials agreed to allow him to serve his time in Canada, but Ottawa rejected that proposal. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration even admitted that Emery's extradition was politically motivated in a press release issued on July 29, 2005.

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