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By Charlie Smith, Georgia Straight

 

The Prince of Pot's U.S. Federal Prison blog # 8 cites a "disturbing series of occurrences" with his mail.

 

In the blog, Marc Emery wrote that a number of items he has sent and that he should have received have gone missing.

 

He mentioned that he decorated an envelope in colour with hand-done calligraphy for a letter to his wife Jodie. Emery wrote that he sent it on July 14 so it would arrive in time for their fourth wedding anniversary on July 23.

 

"But alas, the letter never arrived, and I don't know if you or I will ever know where it went," Emery noted.

 

He also stated that two photographs of him, which he paid for in jail, were sent three weeks ago, but did not make it to their destination.

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This week on Tuesday, June 23, as part of the Free Marc Campaign, I took part in the occupation of Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's office.

 

To the credit of the office, while at first we were only allowed in a small entry, we were buzzed in to the locked office and were given the opportunity to explain our action to the staff. A staff member asked questions and listened to our concerns for over 15 minutes. As a matter of protocol, police were called down, but the call was treated as a non-urgent matter (we waited for an hour for police to arrive, and only one officer was sent down.) The officer was calm and polite and had both his badge number and name clearly displayed. He in no way threatened us with arrest for our protest, and merely asked our names and confirmed that we would only remain during open office hours. Having confirmed this information, he left.

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By. Angela Blackburn/Oakville Beaver

 

The Free Marc Emery (also known as the Prince of Pot) Campaign came to Oakville Tuesday and one arrest followed.

 

Emery is a Canadian, who was recently extradited — with the co-operation of the Canadian federal government — to await sentencing in the United States for selling marijuana seeds online. Emery is due for sentencing in September and faces five years in prison stateside.

 

The campaign has seen protesters take over numerous offices of members of the Conservative government of Canada, including Prime Minister Stephen Harper, to demand the return to Canada of the imprisoned marijuana activist.

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By Jeremiah Vandermeer, Cannabis Culture

 

CANNABIS CULTURE - Another 'Free Marc Emery' campaign activist was arrested during a Conservative MP office occupation in an apparent attempt by Canadian officials to subvert the rights of peaceful protestors. The arrest is the third in days for members of the campaign, who say authorities are using brute force and shady tactics to keep them quiet.

 

Nicole Seguin, a Vancouver drug policy reform activist and member of the 'Free Marc Emery' campaign, was arrested on Tuesday, June 15 for protesting at the Oakville, Ontario constituency office of Conservative MP Terence Young.

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Nicole Seguin, National Director End Prohibition

 

On Tuesday, June 15, I accompanied the Free Marc Campaign to another stop along our tour in Oakville, Ontario, this time at Conservative MP Terrence Young's office. While I had some idea of the possibility of police show of force based on the police reaction to our stop at Rob Nicholson's office, I was still surprised at the size of the police response to our protest.

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The Daily News (Kamloops)

 

A small group of demonstrators took their protest over the recent deportation of marijuana activist Marc Emery to the riding office of MP Cathy McLeod Monday.

 

The four protesters, aligned with the web-based protest FreeMarc.ca, were also objecting to Bill S10, legislation currently before the Senate that proposes mandatory minimum sentences for dealing marijuana.

 

With the House in session, McLeod was in Ottawa, but her staff told the protesters they could not put up posters at the riding office or prevent constituents from entering.

 

RCMP were summoned and convinced the group to take their protest outside.

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NiagaraThisWeek

 

What was supposed to be a peaceful demonstration outside MP Rob Nicholson’s office on Thursday afternoon resulted in the arrest of two men.

 

Jacob Hunter of Vancouver and Eric Compton from Toronto were both arrested by officers from the Niagara Regional Police Services outside Nicholson’s Niagara Falls office. The protest, organized by the Free Marc Emery Campaign, was targeted at Nicholson, Niagara Falls MP, because in his role as Canadian Minister of Justice, Nicholson was the person who signed the extradition order for Emery. Marc Emery is a Canadian cannabis activist and former cannabis seeds seller who was sentenced to five years in a United States prison on drug charges stemming from his cannabis seed selling business. Read more »

By Tamara Baluja, The Province

 

B.C.’s self-styled Prince of Pot, Marc Emery, has been put in solitary confinement for “unknowingly” breaking a rule, his wife says.

 

Jodie Emery told The Province on Wednesday that her husband has been put in Security Housing Unit (SHU) at the SeaTac Federal Detention Centre on June 3 after she recorded a phone conversation with him meant for public broadcast.

 

“He was immediately remorseful,” said Emery, adding that her husband did not realize he had done anything wrong until he was served an offical citation.

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Today (June 9), MP Libby Davies (Vancouver East) sent the following letter to Minister of Foreign Affairs Lawrence Cannon on the issue of the solitary confinement of Marc Emery.

 

June 8, 2010

 

The Honourable Lawrence Cannon

Minister of Foreign Affairs

418 N Centre Block

House of Commons

Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6

 

Dear Minister Cannon,

 

I write to ask for your immediate intervention into the seemingly harsh treatment of a Canadian citizen currently serving a sentence at the SeaTac Federal Detention Centre in Seattle, Washington.

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By Travis Lupick, Georgia Straight

 

Marijuana activists Jodie and Marc Emery have always kept interesting company. But people might be surprised to learn that Marc, who was recently extradited to the U.S., has spent quite a bit of time with officials from the Canada Revenue Agency.

 

“They would have meetings with him,” Jodie Emery told the Georgia Straight in a phone interview. “Officials from Revenue Canada would sit down and say, ‘Hey Mr. Emery, how is it going? Good, good. How are sales? Oh, slow time of year? That’s too bad. Well, hopefully you can sell some more.’ ”

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