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| canadian sovereignty at risk again | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jul 29 2005, 06:19 PM (214 Views) | |
| open secret | Jul 29 2005, 06:19 PM Post #1 |
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - Police raided the headquarters of the British Columbia Marijuana Party on Friday at the request of U.S. investigators targeting one of Canada's best-known advocates of legalizing marijuana. U.S. officials have charged Marc Emery, founder of the Marijuana Party, and two other people with conspiracy to manufacture marijuana, distribute marijuana seeds and money laundering. The charges are in connection with a business that Emery has operated for years over the Internet from offices in Vancouver, on Canada's Pacific Coast. Emery, who has been nicknamed the "Prince of Pot," was arrested in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he was on a visit. He is expected to have a hearing in a court in Vancouver next week for extradition proceedings, according to police officials. Marijuana is a touchy issue in U.S.-Canada relations, with White House officials warning recently that a plan by Ottawa to decriminalize possession of small amounts of pot could lead to tighter security on the border. U.S. officials allege that Emery has sold as much as C$3 million ($2.5 million) in seeds, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Demonstrators protested outside the party's offices as police searched using a warrant that called for seizing materials and information, including the names of people who may have applied for work at Emery's business. "We're disappointed and shocked that Canada would lay down its sovereignty to the United States and allow the United States government's draconian anti-marijuana war to creep into what otherwise was a much more rational system here in Canada," said Kirk Tousaw, the party's campaign manager. Canadian police said no charges have been filed against Emery under Canadian law, but that they were investigating. A spokesman for the Vancouver Police Department, Howard Chow, defended raiding the offices at the request of U.S. officials since Emery's seed business and other pro-marijuana activities have been well known for years. "We received information for the United States and acted accordingly," Chow told reporters. Emery, a Canadian citizen, founded the B.C. Marijuana Party several years ago. The party has fielded candidates in British Columbia's past two legislative elections but none have won. The marijuana trade in British Columbia is worth more than C$6 billion annually, with most of the potent "B.C. Bud" grown in the province destined for the United States. |
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| open secret | Aug 6 2005, 01:27 PM Post #2 |
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AMONG OTHER ISSUES!!!!!!!!!! ![]() http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article.php/20050806111624263 |
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| open secret | Jan 28 2006, 06:14 PM Post #3 |
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Canada acting as arm of U.S. drug war by staying charges, lawyer says Thursday, January 5th, 2006 VANCOUVER (CP) - A lawyer for pot activist Marc Emery says the federal government's decision not to proceed with drug charges against his client clears the way for his possible extradition to the United States and means the federal government is kowtowing to the Americans. Kirk Tousaw was commenting on the recent stay of three conspiracy charges filed against Emery by a private citizen to thwart the United States' efforts to extradite him to that country for distributing marijuana seeds to Americans by mail. David McCann filed the charges last September, saying it would be hypocritical of Canada to participate in U.S. officials' efforts to prosecute Emery for activities condoned here for years. Tousaw said the extradition wouldn't have gone ahead if Emery, along with his co-accused, Michelle Rainey-Fenkarek and Greg Keith Williams, were prosecuted in Canada. "I'm concerned when our government acts as an arm of the U.S. drug war and has an opportunity to reassert Canadian sovereignty but refused to do so," Tousaw said. "I think all Canadians should be concerned about that." McCann said he doesn't understand why the federal government would participate in an extradition request by the United States when it largely ignored Emery's activities and Health Canada even referred patients needing medicinal marijuana to him. Emery and his associates were arrested last July after police raided Emery's pot paraphernalia store following an 18-month investigation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Emery, dubbed the Prince of Pot by American media, is set to return to B.C. Supreme Court next month to set a date for his extradition hearing. A judge can only recommend whether someone should be extradited. The final decision rests with the federal justice minister. Emery, originally from London, Ont., said he only met McCann recently and thanked the man for his efforts to allow Canadian jurors to hear the evidence against him. "I thought that what happened would happen," he said of the charges being stayed. "But I'm still a little crestfallen." A Crown prosecutor was not available to say why the government stayed the drug charges. Tousaw said Justice Minister Irwin Cotler had the opportunity to block the extradition by allowing the private prosecution to go forward. "Doing so would have made extradition impossible," he said. "I suppose it would be reasonable to assume that there was pressure brought to bear on the justice minister not to do anything other than stay the prosecution." Tousaw said the case has highlighted some problems with the extradition system. "You've got the same official making decisions to both begin the process, not take over a prosecution here in Canada and ultimately to surrender the targets for extradition. "I wouldn't go so far as to call it a conflict of interest but it certainty makes me feel uncomfortable with the process." Meanwhile, another private citizen who also filed conspiracy charges against Emery last August for the same reasons as McCann is waiting to find out what will happen with his case. The charges by Paddy Roberts of South Slocan, B.C., include conspiracy to manufacture marijuana, distribute the drug and money laundering. While criminal conspiracy charges are typically handled by the provincial Crown, the federal government has tried to intervene. That prompted Roberts to file a writ of prohibition to stop federal prosecutors from intervening and possibly staying the charges to allow the extradition hearing against Emery to proceed. Roberts, who spent several months in a Dutch jail several years ago pending extradition to the U.S. on his own drug charges, said a lawyer took on the case at no cost. "The implications, if we don't win, are very, very serious," said Roberts, chairman of the separatist Bloc B.C. party. "It means that the (justice minister) of Canada is acting on dubious legal grounds, very dubious legal grounds, to try and interfere in a Canadian court process that will ultimately allow Americans to extend their criminal jurisdiction into this country." http://www.brandonsun.com/pfstory.php?story_id=14898 |
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| funky cm | Jan 29 2006, 12:11 AM Post #4 |
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No I'm not
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when Health Canada first considerd medical marijuana, their attempts at producing it themselves yeilded poor quality product |
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