DEA strikes a blow against "marajuana legalization movement"

[CatWoman]

August 20, 2005
DEA strikes a blow against "marajuana legalization movement"

This is outrageous: The Canadian Police have arrested marajuana legalization activist Marc Emery (a Canadian citizen, and founder/head of the British Columbia Marajuana Party) and two employees of his marajuana seed distribution company. This was done at the request of the U.S. Federal Drug Enforcement Agency (which obviously has nothing better to do, like taking out meth labs and breaking up crack distribution networks). They are attempting to have him extradited to the US, where if convicted, he faces prison time (up to ten years), and is even theoretically subject to life in prison or the death penalty, as a "drug kingpin" (ala Pablo Escobar). Why? Well, the quote below tells you: a transparent attempt to suppress a political point of view. Facism, pure and simple.

a column by Joel Connelly in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer this morning quotes a statement by DEA chief Karen Tandy suggesting political motivations: " Today's arrest of Mark (sic) Scott Emery, publisher of Cannabis Culture magazine and the founder of a marijuana legalization group, is a significant blow not only to the marijuana trafficking trade in the US and Canada, but also to the marijuana legalization movement... Hundreds of thousands of dollars of Emery's illicit profits are known to have been channeled to marijuana legalization groups active in the United States and Canada. Drug legalization lobbyists now have one less pot of money to rely on."

http://www.seeingtheforest.com/archives/2005/08/dea_strikes_a_b.htm

[Greyhound]

1. This is why I'm not heading north to escape the coming take-over

The Canadians try to be independent, but when push comes shove... :shrug:

[shadowlight]

2. he's out on bail now

i doubt he'll be extradited
Canadians will be screaming if they try

[Lenore]

3. Quite sure I read a report yesterday that said...

Canada was refusing to extradite the guy... eom

[mcscajun]

11. The report was not on Canada's refusal (which hasn't been determined)

but on a survey that said 58% of Canadians reject his extradition.

And so we wait...

[Lenore]

19. Sorry LOL

I must have been stoned or something B-)

[mcscajun]

22. Hey! Stop bogarting that joint!

:smoke:

[Tyranny_R_US]

4. Karen Tandy I hope you get breast cancer...

Then we'll see what you have to say about marijuana when you have to go through chemo, etc.

[AX10]

10. kick

[babylonsister]

12. Well that's a horrible

sentiment, regardless of how you feel about someone's viewpoints. :eyes:

[genieroze]

21. No, she will go the Limpball route and pop oxycotins.

[Gabi Hayes]

5. thanks for this thread! Canada is getting SO fucked over....read this

http://www.reneeboje.com/



FREE RENEE! I/m certain that she won't mind this being placed here

Renee Boje is fighting a fast track extradition order from Canada to the US . The US federal authorities want to imprison her for a 10 year mandatory minimum to life sentence in a federal prison for medical marijuana charges stemming from a bust in California , where medical marijuana is legal.




The Canadian Minister of Justice, Irwin Cotler, ordered Renee Boje surrendered to the US authorities on June 17, 2005. Renee surrendered herself into custody on that date and was released on bail pending an appeal that she and her lawyer entered to the Canadian Court of Appeals. They are still waiting to hear whether or not the appeal will be accepted.





In order to ensure Renee Boje's freedom in Canada, she and her lawyer will have to convince the Canadian Court of Appeals that to surrender her to the US authorities to serve a lengthy prison sentence in a violent and inhumane US prison would shock the conscience of Canadian citizens.





Amnesty International, the UN and Human Rights Watch have all condemned womens prisons in the US due to the extreme violence & inhumane conditions that women are enduring in American prisons today. More information can be found in the links section of this site under prison issues.





Renee Boje and her lawyer only have 2 years to fight for Renee's freedom since the US has requested her extradition case be fast tracked through the Canadian Courts.



There are a few ways that the public can help:

1. Please write to the Minister of Justice, Irwin Cotler, to ask him to reverse his decision to surrender Renee Boje to the US authorities.


Please send your letter to Renee Boje so that she can copy it and submit it to the Court of Appeals & then forward your letter to the Minister for you:


Renee Boje

307 W Hastings St

Vancouver , BC , V6B 1H6

Email the Minister of Justice at [e-mail] and cc your email to Renee at [e-mail]




also, when it's up, listen to her story, on yesterday's this is hell

this is her on this is hell, back in 2002. PLEASE listen

http://server.wnur.org/thisishell/archive/20020727_3.ram

it's about an hour and thirty two minutes in; just outrageous

she was WATERING plants at this house, legal under California prop 15, but she was busted by the feds. one of the defendants has since DIED because he couldn't stop vomiting whenever he ate, and the feds not only kept marijuana from him, but they wouldn't let him have marinol, either. He DIED, choking on his own vomit.

Freaking NAZIS...that's all they are

you won't believe this.....PLEASE LISTEN!!

nominated, btw, as everybody should be doing

this is imPORtant

[Gabi Hayes]

6. sinking fast....does Pot float?

na ga leh ih happun

[MelissaB]

9. I don't know.

I've never tried it, but just in case it's good...:kick:

[ConcernedCanuk]

7. At least they could spell Marydjawanna right??

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anyhoo - sum interesting stuff I found a-googlin'


"At the North Shore Outlook, columnist Denny Boyd recalls the days when Tommy Chong lived on Marine Drive, and reminds us that the one-time member of the stoner comedy duo Cheech and Chong was recently busted in a U.S. crackdown on pot paraphernalia.

Chong's crime? Selling custom bongs from a website. His punishment? Nine months in jail, a $20,000 fine and forfeiture of $120,000 worth of assets. Boyd hopes the pot tunnel across the border at Aldergrove is well bricked up, to keep the Yanks from using it as a beachhead for invasion.

Even the staid Victoria News suggests in an editorial that the Canadian courts should refuse to extradite Emery to stand trial. This is highly unlikely, given the clear coordination between U.S. authorities and ours in the raid on Emery's Vancouver seed emporium, and his arrest in Halifax. Extradition treaties are not to be tossed away like tissues by any country that aspires to be a serious international player. "

/snip/

Emery was jailed in Saskatchewan for passing a joint. In Saskatoon they call that "trafficking." On the steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery, they call it "Saturday.

:bounce: - that's more like it!!

http://www.mapinc.org/newscmp/v05/n1355/a07.html?176


and ole Hugo - he's got the DEA's number alright - -

"Hugo Chavez, president of Venezuela, recently kicked the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency out of Venezuela, saying "the DEA's war on drugs has nothing to do with actually shutting down the business, but is rather part of a strategy of political intervention in Latin American affairs."

It is clear that the DEA vendetta regarding Marc Emery is also a political intervention. "

http://www.mapinc.org/newscmp/v05/n1357/a03.html?176

PNACers are more scared of weed than any other drug methinks -

wouldn't get too many "warriors" out of a pot-smoking crowd

Dem Nintendo pilots need Ecstasy and the like, no?

:shrug:

[Gabi Hayes]

8. Chong took the fall cause they threatened to go after his wife and

kid(s) if he didn't plead guilty....said they'd go away for a LONG time.

he took the fall

I heard him discussing this

they do this to keep everybody in FEAR.....make a high-visibility bust, and people will think twice about speaking out, at the very least

I wonder how much longer Willie Nelson and Bill Maher will go untouched for their very public consumption

[CatWoman]

13. again, they have nothing better to do

I wonder how they are doing against the war on crack, and other dangerous drugs.

[Gabi Hayes]

20. that's not it at all.....they're doing it on PURpose...very political

even repub congressmen are in DESPAIR at the money being spent on pot enforcement, to the VERY very high detriment of an infinitely worse problem: meth labs

there was even a story or two about it for a day or two. money has been tentatively cut or remains the same for meth prosecution, and lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are REALLY pissed about this

there's still a Reefer Madness mentality WRT weed, and the more this goes on, the more I think the only rational explanation is economic, both from a pharmaceutical standpoint, AND a resource standpoint

weed has more uses than any other plant ever surveyed, if that's the right word

check it out....I'm not exaggerating

lots of people say that's why it was made illegal in the thirties: just as much at the behest of Standard Oil, Dow, DuPont, as Anslinger and all the other prohibition maniacs

[CrownPrinceBandar]

14. Emery is a scapegoat..........

According to he and many of his supporters, Emery gave away the majority of the money he earned from seed sales towards efforts to legalize grass. Many political figures such as the mayor of Vancouver and Mark Leyton of the NDP wholeheartedly supported and took money from Emery to gain both visibility for their causes and money for their campaigns. Even the Justice Minister, Irwin Cottler, said that his kids watched POT TV (an internet network Emery helped found)than popular network TV. Not only were political figures accepting funds and notoriety from Emery, the Canadian government accepted income taxes from Emery from funds garnered from his seed business. Emery founded his movement on transparency, and this dominionist move by the US should send fear to governments worldwide.


Emery video:
http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/pottvshowse-3919.html

[progressoid]

15. I heard that MaryJane (as you kids call it) can make you kill...

a whole can of Pringles.

[Tsiyu]

16. What happened to government working FOR THE PEOPLE

In every poll taken in at least the last ten years, the majority of average Americans DO NOT WANT marijuana to be illegal. The majority of Americans DO WANT drugs like meth and crack to be the focus of law enforcement.

WHY is the US government acting AGAINST the wishes of its own people?

One answer: Greed.

I'm with the poster above who wishes vile diseases on those who make mucho $$$$ off the criminalization of marijuana. Let them ALL suffer so they can experience firsthand what their policies "feel like."

Pain and suffering is really too good a punishment for anti-American Fascists. May every one be rocked with overwhelming agony.

[walldude]

17. Welcome to Bushville

where not only are you not allowed to smoke pot but you aren't allowed to even attempt to get it legalized. What happened to his little speech about "it's a free country and people are free to say what they want"?

[wli]

18. would be nice if there were any means of recourse

e.g. suing the FBI for libel, or the ability to start referenda against these kinds of Gestapo tactics.

[EC]

23. I read today that Canada refused to extradite him.. n/t

[U4ikLefty]

24. I stand for Emery in principle ONLY!!!

Emery is not the best person in the world, but I as a MJ user must stand along side those I despise to help the greater good. It sucks being a freedom-loving person sometimes.

[Swamp Rat]

25. 10 people will replace him.

The DEA will NEVER win the so-called "drug war."

Fuck 'em! Just plant Marijuana seeds all over the USA. :)

[Wizard777]

26. Catch 22

The US Government and it's subordinate the DEA have no legal authority. The DEA Schedules have outlawed the very substance of our Constitution. The Constitution of our forefathers is now illegal to posses in the USA. The DEA Schedule states that it is dangerous and has no uses in America. Even the Constitutional power vested in SCOTUS by our forefathers to agree or disagree with this assertion. Is Null and Void in accordance to the DEA Schedule. To extradite Mr. Emery is a mute point. We no longer have a judicial system by which we may place him on trial. We only have a silly little DEA schedule that millions of Americans freely ignore. Much like a bus driver ignores a bus schedule. There are a lot of things along the way that the schedule does not allow for. Like the freedom and liberty of others to get the way of your silly little schedule. The bus will get there when it gets there. Not one second before and not one second after. If it can get there at all.
With the Constitution as the driving force of America. We cannot allow the DEA Schedule to tell it to sit in the back of the bus. We cannot allow the DEA Schedule to get in it's way. We most definately cannot allow it to take that bus off of Liberty Road to prevent it from reaching Freedom.