Individual freedom, political organizing, internet media, print media, marijuana, women, sex, Video technology, The US primaries right now for the 2008 election!, networking. RON PAUL FOR PRESIDENT. I love that guy! go to www.ronpaul2008.com
Music
Goin' to Cali - Notorious BIG
Same Song - Digital Underground
Work It Out - Jurrasic 5
Weed With Willie - Toby Keith (great song!)
No Diggity by Blackstreet
Ayo for Yayo
Sugar Sugar by Baby Bash
What About Us - BrandyFull Moon - Brandy
Lover Boy - Billy Ocean
Toxic - Britney
Fighter - Christina
Slip Away - Clarence Carter
Let's Get High - Dre & Snoop Dogg (2001)
These Drugs Really Got a Hold Of Me - Eminem
Missing You - Everything But The Girl
Party Train - Gap Band
You Dropped A Bomb on Me - GAP Band
Moonlight Desires - Gowan
Night Nurse - Gregory Isaacs
Can't Get You Out of My Head - Kylie Minogue
When the Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin
Family Affair - Mary Blige
Maybe I'm Amazed - Paul McCartney (from 1970 'McCartney' album)
Son of a Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield
Rubberband Man - Spinners
Control - Puddle of Mudd
Mad World - Donnie Darko Soundtrack version
DRE, Eminem, Leonard Cohen, Kraftwerk, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Talking Heads, John Lennon.
Movies
Saw Broken Flowers by Jarmusch, Good Night & Good Luck by Clooney, A History of Violence by Cronenburg and found them all unsatisfying. The brief nudity by the hot Lolita in one scene in Broken Flowers was wonderful. With Bill Murray, sometimes 'deadpan' is just bored. Lost in Translation is a much better film.
Really enjoying the old clips from the 60's to 80's that are on youtube.com and yahoo video.
V for Vendetta was satisfying. Crash was a fine movie. Batman Begins was excellent.
My favorite film of the last year was A Very Long Engagement. That was a fantastic and extraordinary film.
Television
Must watch shows:
Sopranos, Reno 911, Six Feet Under, Extras, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Larry Sanders Show (DVD).
Books
The God Delusion (Richard Dawkins), God is Not Great - Christopher Hitchens. Lies, Damned Lies, and Drug War Statistics.
Heroes
Ayn Rand, Spiderman, Denis Peron, Jack Herer, Thomas Jefferson, lew rockwell, Ron Paul, John Lennon, and my Dad, the late great Alfred Emery.
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Marc Emery is pleased to announce JUPITER at 102-626 Broadway AveSaskatoon is sponsor of Marc & Jodie's Farewell Tour visit to SASKATOON July 8. view more
"PRINCE OF POT: The US vs. Marc Emery" movie on DVD!
This is the extended film festival version of the CBC release "Prince of Pot: The US vs. Marc Emery". The DVD comes with bonus features, including extra scenes and extended interviews! Buy it at the CC Online Store for only $14.99. You can even get your DVD personally signed and autographed by Marc Emery!
This movie was available online at www.YouTube.com/PrinceOfPot until it got removed by the European distributor of the film (Journeyman Pictures). But this full-length version DVD, made by the film's producer, comes with bonus features not available anywhere else! Get it now from Marc Emery himself!
Also, be sure to visit www.NoExtradition.net for more information and ways to help Marc Emery and friends fight extradition. There's more information about the history and facts in the case of the US versus Marc Emery!
Canadian Marc Emery, Canada's most prominent marijuana legalization activist, is at the top of the U.S, Drug Enforcement Agency's 'Most Wanted List' and now faces extradition to the U.S. and possible life imprisonment. His crime - selling marijuana seeds over the Internet. An occupation he has never denied. In fact for more than a decade he has dutifully filed his income tax returns in Canada stating his occupation as "marijuana seed seller". He paid his taxes and was left alone by the Canadian authorities. However Canada's RCMP suddenly and willingly co-operated when the DEA got him in their sights.
Widely known as "The Prince of Pot," Emery is the joint smoking publisher of Cannabis Culture Magazine, founder of the BC Marijuana Party and a lifelong rabble-rouser. And now, according to the DEA, one of the most wanted men in the drug world, up there with the heads of Columbian cocaine cartels, and the top drug trafficker in North America. His story is the prism through which director, Nick Wilson, examines the touchy issue of sovereignty, the long reach of U.S. drug laws, and Canadian pot culture, while spending the summer embedded at the Emery defense headquarters.
Emery believes marijuana is a wonderful, healing drug and that current laws are unconstitutional, inhumane, and detrimental to society, far outweighing the damage done to people by the drug itself. Emery faces years in prison if he's extradited to face trial in the U.S. His extradition hearing is scheduled to being in February, 2009 in Vancouver. No Canadian has ever gone to jail for selling seeds, and in 35 years only two people have been charged - the last got a $200 fine. Yet, Emery could be sentenced to a life term if found guilty in a U.S. courtroom. He is currently is trying to negotiate a complicated deal to end his legal battle with U.S. and Canadian authorities.
THE PRINCE OF POT follows Emery through the summer and fall as he plots his defense, attends court hearings and tries to clear the names of his two friends who now face the same fate as him.
The Prince of Pot: The U.S. vs. Marc Emery is directed by Nick Wilson and produced by Anne Pick, Real to Reel Productions (Toronto).
Support Jodie & Marc Emery's Election Campaign!
Marc Emery and his wife Jodie Emery will be candidates for the BC Marijuana Party in the BC provincial by-election. The two ridings of Vancouver Burrard and Vancouver Fairview will have voting on Wednesday, October 29th. Marc is downtown in Vancouver-Burrard, and Jodie is south of downtown in Vancouver-Fairview (Click to see maps).
Marc and Jodie need support! If you live in either riding, tell everyone you know to vote EMERY on October 29th! You can come to "Marc Emery's Cannabis Culture Headquarters" at 307 West Hastings Street to meet Marc and Jodie, and get buttons and pamphlets to hand out!
Donations are also welcome, and will help pay for buttons, signs, and voter cards to promote the platform of personal freedom and an immediate repeal of marijuana prohibition. You can donate by making a cheque or money order out to "Marc Emery Official Agent" and sending it to:
Emery Election Campaign
307 West Hastings Street
Vancouver, BC
V6B 1H6
* Only Canadians can donate -- sorry!
You can also donate via PayPal to the Emery Election campaign by sending funds to JodieEmery@gmail.com or visiting the ChipIn page at emeryelection.chipin.com.
Remember: Thanks to provincial tax credits, BC residents can afford a generous contribution to the BCMP and Marc Emery's BCMP campaign. You pay only a small portion of your total donation!
- $50 costs you just $12.50, because you get $37.50 back in tax credits
- $100 costs you just $25
- $250 costs you $100
- $500 costs you $225, etc.
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Thank you for the support!
Vote for Jodie and Marc Emery in BC on October 29th!
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Watch the NEW Documentary seen nationwide across Canada on television on CBC Newsworld. Originally aired Tuesday, October 23. PRINCE OF POT: US vs. Marc Emery
A Documentary by Nick Wilson. Produced by Anne Pick.
Originally shown at the Montreal and Vancouver Film Festivals. World television premiere Tuesday, October 23 on THE LENS, CBC Newsworld.
A Real to Reel Production.
all 5 parts of the CBC Newsworld Presentation from Tuesday, October 23: are here
Why Is This Canadian Pot Dealer Campaigning for Ron Paul?
He's looking for a pardon.
By Rick Anderson
Marc Emery longs for the day when a U.S. president is willing to be photographed bong in hand.
Marc Emery agrees his campaign-organizing effort for some 2008 U.S. presidential candidates is a bit unorthodox. He's Canadian, his political base of operations is the B.C. Marijuana Party in Vancouver, and he can be arrested if he sets foot into America.
Still, "We have a saying up here: 'American politics is far too important to leave to the Americans,'" says Emery, 49, who is trying to raise cross-border support for dark-horse White House candidates. He likes liberal Democrat Dennis Kucinich well enough, but prefers Republican Ron Paul, a longtime libertarian who, like Emery, opposes the U.S. war on drugs.
Most important, "If Ron Paul were to win," says a hopeful Emery, "he'd pardon all the pot people." That just might include Emery, whose campaign motives aren't purely political: Putting the right person in the White House, he says, might help him avoid spending life in prison.
Known by a legion of dope growers and law-enforcement officials as the Prince of Pot, Emery has launched a truly grassroots campaign in Canada while under indictment in Seattle.
The Drug Enforcement Agency labels Emery a "major marijuana dealer," although he never grew or possessed any of the illegal plants he is, by implication, accused of distributing. However, says the DEA, he sold marijuana plant seeds over the Internet, through the mail, and in person to individuals in the United States and around the globe for 11 years, leading to the eventual sprouting of millions of pounds of prized and potent B.C. bud in basements and greenhouses far away from beatific British Columbia. He was indicted in 2005 by then–U.S. Attorney John McKay on charges of conspiring to manufacture the drug.
During a 60 Minutes profile of the Prince last year, McKay called Emery "the biggest purveyor of marijuana from Canada into the United States." The DEA claimed his dope seeding resulted in 100,000 pounds of marijuana grown annually in the U.S. Over 11 years, that comes to 1.1 million pounds of dope, resulting in perhaps $2.5 billion worth of plants. "If it's true," says Emery, "I'm proud to have brought such wealth to our [drug] community." (That's the kind of smart remark, the defiant seedman adds, that "will guarantee that I get the highest sentence possible in a U.S. federal court.")
The indictment appears to be politically correct to the Bush administration, which is rumored to sometimes enforce the law ideologically. Bush Attorney General Alberto Gonzales last December fired McKay, along with eight other U.S. attorneys, for apparently failing to follow in neocon lockstep on some issues. But the indictment of the lefty seed grower seems to have gotten the Bush seal of approval, even if, as some argue, selling dope seeds isn't much different from selling guns—the merchandise can be used criminally but also legally (guns for protection, seeds to grow medical marijuana).
Emery allows that he may have invited U.S. scrutiny in 2002 when he and other Marijuana Party members heckled White House drug czar John Walters during a Vancouver speech. He's cheering the new effort to remove Gonzales (an impeachment resolution was filed in the House last week by Rep. Jay Inslee and others). But the election of a Democrat or, especially, a libertarian to the White House in '08 fits both Emery's political agenda and his legal strategy.
"It's my belief," says Emery, who has been a follower of Paul, a 10-term Texas congressman, for decades, "that if Ron were elected, he'd rescind the indictment against me immediately. Or at least he'd appoint an attorney general who would pardon any nonviolent drug offender, clear out the jails, and end the drug war."
Paul's communications director, Jesse Benton, says the fledgling campaign welcomes all support. But Emery shouldn't necessarily expect amnesty from a Paul administration. "You would see a cooling of the federal war on drugs [under Paul]," Benton says. "But Ron believes in the rule of law, and I don't think this guy should look to Ron for him getting off scot-free."
Yet, if George Bush can commute the sentence of a perjurer like Scooter Libby, certainly Ron Paul could pardon a prince like Marc Emery, the seedman thinks. Facing an extradition hearing in November along with two others accused of the seed conspiracy, Emery is already planning appeals and other maneuvers to delay his likely Seattle trial until 2009, when a more friendly administration might take office.
Just eight Canadian enthusiasts dropped by Emery's initial Ron Paul Meet-Up last month at the Bump & Grind coffee shop in Vancouver. But Emery thinks he can garner more Paul support from U.S. students and other Americans living in Canada who are eligible to vote in the States. "We're trying to browbeat any American who comes into our store," says Emery, referring to the onetime Vancouver marketplace of his seed-mailing operation, which still peddles bongs and other "narcotics paraphernalia," as the cops call it. (As part of his bail agreement on the U.S. charges, a Canadian court has forbidden him from distributing dope seeds since 2005.)
He's trolling for supporters on his Web sites as well—Pot.tv and CannabisCulture.com, along with a popular MySpace page (myspace.com/prince_of_pot_marc_emery)—although the sites were recently disabled by a Chicago hacker. "We have his name and address," says Emery, but for some reason, he can't get U.S. authorities interested in helping him.
When Emery was arrested by the Mounties two years ago, Seattle DEA Special Agent in Charge Rod Benson said Emery needed to be locked up because he "was motivated by greed." Emery admits to getting rich quick after opening his mail-order biz, Marc Emery Direct, in 1994. "I sold millions of seeds," he said last week, "and sometimes made $2 million a year." But he blew much of it helping friends and causes, and is comparably broke today, he says.
Still, he's not in prison—yet. "You've got to listen to the Ron Paul song," Emery says, referring to the Three Shoes Posse single called "Ron Paul Is Here," in which Paul himself talks up his campaign to a reggae beat.
There's one line Emery particularly likes. "I would guarantee," says Paul, "that I would never abuse habeas corpus!" That's the process that allows prisoners to petition for their release. "If a Texan can advocate those freedoms, there's still hope," Emery says.
randerson@seattleweekly.com
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Cannabis Culture Magazine is sponsoring a Ron Paul "Hope for America" bicycle awareness tour in South Carolina. From September 15th to the 23rd, marathon cyclist Ken Locke will ride through South Carolina armed with one thousand "Ron Paul: Hope For America" buttons, two thousand 3x5-inch information cards, a bicycle sign reading "Ron Paul: Hope For America, President 2008", and a trailing flag that says "Ask Me About Ron Paul for President!"
While Kent hands out buttons and cards, he will deliver Ron Paul's message to the folks of South Carolina, recognizing the importance of the Palmetto State's early primary on February 2, 2008. We encourage anyone in South Carolina to support Kent and Cannabis Culture, but more importantly to support and vote for Ron Paul in the Republican primaries!
This Thursday in Vancouver, British Columbia, our Ron Paul meet up group is setting up a Ron Paul pavilion in downtown's main square at the Art Gallery, from 4:00 to 7:00pm. Three giant Ron Paul banners will hopefully draw US visitors to our booth, where information can be shared and taken away.
Starting next week, we will need volunteers to hold our 8-foot long by 3-foot wide Ron Paul Banners at the Vancouver cruise ship terminal, where most of the passengers are exiting and entering the cruise ships Thursday to Sunday. Most of these well-heeled people are American and Republican! So this is fertile and potentially valuable prospecting for Dr. Paul's campaign of constitutionally bound government and individual liberty.
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My June 1st, 2007 POT.TV show:
Updated June 2, 2007 EXTRADITION HEARING DATE NOVEMBER 5 - 8, 2007
In what is scheduled to be a 4 day hearing in BC Supreme Court, Marc Emery, Michelle Rainey and Greg Williams will begin the USA EXTRADITION hearing that seeks to take them into the US federal prison system. Emery is looking at sentencing that includes life without parole or worse, as the DEA on CNN's LOU DOBBS claimed Emery was the largest marijuana producer perhaps of all time because of his seed distribution activities. "We believe he is responsible for over 100,000 pounds of marijuana for every year he was in business." Eleven years in the seed business times 100,000 pounds is 1.1 million pounds, worth conservatively $2.5 BILLION US. If its true, I'm proud of bringing such wealth to our community, and using the money that was sent for those seeds to thwart the US government in elections, conferences, activities around the globe. And remarks like the previous sentence will guarantee that I get the highest sentence possible in a US federal court, since I am proud of my activities, wish I did even more, am in no way repentent.
My lawyer, who is a very good extradition lawyer though very overbooked and overworked, has received very little money, and If I were to ask people any one thing it would be to send my lawyer a check or money order for $25 or $50 to Ian Donaldson, In Trust, Donalson- Jette, 490 - 1090 Homer St., Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6B 2W9. You can make any donation out to " Ian Donaldson In Trust(Marc Emery)".
Nonetheless, great as he is, he says I'm 98% doomed. Even though I'm a nice guy who hasn't hurt anyone and there are no victims here, the law is not in my favor. So my time is now going through the hourglass....
The process works like this, the hearing lasts for a week. The judge comes back with a "Committal" or "Refusal". If it comes back to Commit, then I and everyone who supports me has to lobby the Canadian Justice Minister to NOT DO IT. He has that power. There are many great reasons why he should agree with you, but he will need to be overwhelmed with letters and calls urging him to refuse extradition. A verdict from the Extradition Hearing would come back in 2008. Then the political phase of influencing Canada's Justice Minister to refuse the extradition begins. But he could decide immediately, as I'm sure he will and can order me surrendered. Then I can appeal that decision to the BC Court of Appeal. If I lose there, it is pretty well over. That process would take us to early 2009, when a new US administration takes over from Bush/Gonzales. A Canadian election will happen by then also. Alberto Gonzales, the BUSH appointed Attorney-General has made me a special target, following up on my notorious confrontation with John Walters in November 2002, when our unrelenting heckling interrupted the White House Drug Czar's speech to the Vancouver Board of Trade. A change in US President or Attorney-General could be very influential to my outcome. A change in the Canadian government is possible in late 2007 or Spring 2008, and the more Members of Parliament from the New Democratic Party would be the most helpful .
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Updated September 15, 2006 CBS News has decided to re-run "Marc Emery: the Prince of Pot" on 60 Minutes on Sunday, September 17th on the West coast of North America. Correspondent Bob Simon talked to Marc Emery, who had a mail-order pot seed business that Canada ignored but the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency wants to prosecute him for.
The "Prince of Pot", Canadian Marc Emery, could wind up in a U.S. jail for life for selling marijuana seeds, but says he would be "blessed" because such a plight could help legalize the drug. The last place he wants to be is in jail, but Emery says if the Canadian courts allow the U.S. government to extradite him and a U.S. jury puts him away, he still sees a silver lining.
"I am blessed by what the DEA has done," he tells Simon. "I would rather see marijuana legalized than me being saved from a U.S. jail. I hope that if I am incarcerated, I can influence tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of young people to take up my cause."
The 48-year-old Vancouver, B.C., resident is a fervent activist for the legalization of marijuana and a hero to the movement. He has made several million dollars and claims to have sold more seeds than anyone in the world on his Web site and through a magazine he publishes, "Cannabis Culture."
Selling the seeds is an illegal activity in Canada, but enforcement is rare and punishment light. The drug is legal for medicinal purposes and, overall, Canada has a very laidback attitude toward marijuana. But Emery estimates that the majority of customers he's sold to over the past decade are Americans.
Furthermore, British Columbia is a region that produces very pungent pot known as "BC bud" that is smuggled into the United States, where it's well known. Emery takes pride in the image. "(British Columbia growers) have had a wonderful marketing man in charge of that campaign - yours truly," boasts Emery.
U.S. officials in Washington also have taken notice, however. "We have a huge regional, national and international issue here in the growing of marijuana in lower British Columbia," says John McKay, the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington. "(Emery's) activities are kind of a leading edge of that marijuana problem."
McKay says the fact that Canadian officials don't regard him as a threat has no bearing in the United States, where marijuana seeds are just as illegal as the plant.
"He's dealing drugs into the United States and violating laws of the United States and we expect to extradite and try him in the United States," vows McKay.
Asked what he thinks of U.S. officials' stance that Emery is a major drug dealer, Canadian Senator Larry Campbell, a former drug officer, says: "If they consider that, then they have bigger problems than I can even imagine. There's simply no way he's a major anything."
There would also be a backlash from Canadians if the U.S. can extradite someone like Emery. "I think there would be outrage," Campbell says.
For McKay, the law is the law. "We have full respect for the laws of Canada - and they respect our laws and he's violated our laws. You know he calls himself the prince of pot but he may become the prince of federal prison," says McKay.
If he goes to prison, Emery wants to be known more as leader rather than a martyr.
"The language I like to use is one of a person, a leader, who’s confident and prepared to accept the punishment that noble purpose will bring about," Emery tells Simon.
You can watch the 60 minutes piece from the original airing on March 5th, 2006, here at www.Pot.tv.
Who Am I?
I am publisher of Cannabis Culture Magazine (on the net cannabisculture.com), director of www.POT.Tv, Party Leader of the BC Marijuana Party, and leader to those who are loyal first to the sacred herb.
I am a cannabis lover, a printophile (I love print & media), a womanizer, and I love to meet the cannabis people.
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Al Roker (MSNBC's Marijuana, Inc) and John Stossel (Government Bailouts & Bullshit) are to be commended for drawing attention to the injustice happening in California this week to Charles C. Lynch, compassionate provider.
All the latest changes for the Prince of Pot! No more printed Cannabis Culture Mag! Jail for the Prince of Pot!
Who I'd like to meet: All Stoners, Bong Hitters, Closet Tokers, Viper Girls, Pot Priests, Buddah Brothers, Cannabis Connoiseurs, Drug Law Reform Advocates, libertarians, Ron Paul Revolutionaries, Ayn Rand acolytes.
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Eddy Lepp is in prison for 10 years for growing Marijuana! He turned himself in at 2:45 PM on 7/6/09. It is a crime that Eddy has to go to prison for 10 years for helping the sick by providing them with a location to grow their own Marijuana. What kind of backward ass policies are we practicing in America? What is the purpose of Independence Day if you can't grow Marijuana Independently as an Adult? Every Marijuana Smoker in California should march on the State Capital!
Marc and Jodie need support! If you live in either riding, tell everyone you know to vote EMERY on October 29th! You can come to "Marc Emery's Cannabis Culture Headquarters" at 307 West Hastings Street to meet Marc and Jodie, and get buttons and pamphlets to hand out!
Donations are also welcome, and will help pay for buttons, signs, and voter cards to promote the platform of personal freedom and an immediate repeal of marijuana prohibition. You can donate by making a cheque or money order out to "Marc Emery Official Agent" and sending it to:
Emery Election Campaign
307 West Hastings Street
Vancouver, BC
V6B 1H6
* Only Canadians can donate -- sorry!
You can also donate via PayPal to the Emery Election campaign by sending funds to JodieEmery@gmail.com or visiting the ChipIn page at 
Thank you for the support!
Vote for Jodie and Marc Emery in BC on October 29th!
Watch the NEW Documentary seen nationwide across Canada on television on CBC Newsworld. Originally aired Tuesday, October 23.
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