Pubdate: Sun, 07 Aug 2005
Source: Ottawa X Press (CN ON)
Copyright: 2005 Ottawa X Press
Contact:  http://www.ottawaxpress.ca/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/330
Author: John Akpata
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mjcn.htm (Cannabis - Canada)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/people/Marc+Emery (Emery, Marc)

HOUSE OF TROUBLE

DEA GO AWAY

Marc Emery is the president of the B.C. Marijuana Party. He also sells
cannabis seeds via the Internet. It can cost you up to $500 for 10
seeds. He was scheduled to speak at the Atlantic Hempfest, a three-day
festival and fundraiser for Maritimers Unite for Medical Marijuana.

But On July 29, while in an eatery in Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia, Emery
was arrested by the RCMP-the culmination of a joint investigation by
the Halifax regional police, the RCMP and their integrated drug unit.

The request for Emery's arrest came from the Vancouver police
department, who on July 22 also raided Toker's Bowl, Emery's store,
which sells books, smoking paraphernalia and seeds, and also serves as
the headquarters of the B.C. Marijuana Party. Vancouver police
arrested Gregory Williams and Michelle Rainey-Fenkarek during the
raid. Authorization for the raid came from associate chief justice of
the B.C. supreme court, Patrick Dohm, under the Mutual Legal
Assistance in Criminal Matters Act. The search warrant said Emery,
Williams and Rainey-Fenkarek are wanted in the U.S. on charges of
conspiracy to manufacture marijuana, conspiracy to distribute
marijuana seeds, and conspiracy to engage in money laundering.

The U.S. is seeking the extradition of all three on conspiracy charges
after they were indicted by an American federal grand jury in May. The
indictment followed an 18-month investigation by American police into
the sale of marijuana seeds on the Internet and by mail. If convicted,
each could spend over a  decade in prison in the United States of
America-for selling seeds. This is ridiculous.

The American "War on Drugs" and "War on Terror" have become a war on
freedom, and a war on Canadian sovereignty. If the Canadian government
capitulates, America will have succeeded in becoming absolutely
tyrannical. Who is next? Muslims? Minorities? Same-sex couples? Brew
your own beer depots? Watch out.

Cannabis seeds and oil pressed from the seeds could be a valuable food
source for humans. Cannabis seeds contain all eight amino acids that
humans require for life functions, as well as the omega oils: omega 3,
omega 6 and omega 9. Cannabis seeds also contain the fatty
gamma-linolenic acid (contained in Omega 6), a building block not
easily found in nature. Cannabis seeds and oil pressings contain no
THC, nor any of the cannabinoid groups that make you high. Yankee go
home. Free Emery, Williams and Rainey-Fenkarek. 
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