Pubdate: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 Source: Province, The (CN BC) Copyright: 2005 The Province Contact: http://www.canada.com/vancouver/theprovince/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/476 Author: Keith Fraser Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?196 (Emery, Marc) Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/pot.htm (Cannabis) POT ACTIVIST STAYS IN JAIL, AWAITING THREE GUARANTORS Supporters of Marc Emery were scrambling yesterday to put together the necessary sureties to have him released on bail. The leader of the B.C. Marijuana Party was arrested in Halifax on Friday after U.S. authorities indicted him on drug charges. They are now seeking his extradition from Canada. He was transferred to Vancouver, where a B.C. Supreme Court judge ordered that he be released as long as he came up with $50,000 bail. But Emery was not able to comply with one of the requirements -- that he come up with three $10,000 sureties from B.C. landowners. He remained in jail overnight. Kirk Tousaw, the party's campaign manager, said Emery had lined up the needed sureties but was unable to secure the final approvals before the court registry closed for the day. Meanwhile, Health Canada denied a suggestion by Emery's lawyer, John Conroy, that the federal government has been tacitly approving Emery's business selling marijuana seeds. Conroy said Ottawa was telling people with government exemptions for medicinal marijuana that they could purchase the seeds off the Internet, with Emery having one such website. But Chris Williams, a spokesman for Health Canada, said any exempted people are able to purchase their seeds from the department and are not being told to go online. Chris Girouard of the federal Justice Department, which is handling the extradition, said that under the Extradition Act the government has the power to seek extradition on behalf of another government. Emery, 47, is being sought in the U.S. for allegedly selling marijuana seeds that have been used in grow-ops south of the border. He is also charged with money laundering - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom