Prince of Pot Marc Emery's ex-business partner and medical marijuana advocate, Michelle Rainey, has died from cancer. Rainey, who graduated from Lord Kelvin Elementary and New Westminster Secondary School, had lived with Crohn's disease since she was a teenager and in the last years of her life struggled against melanoma and lymphatic cancer. Her husband, Jef Tek, and mother, Emilie, were at her side, each holding a hand, when she died Wednesday night at her home in Maple Ridge in spite of last-ditch, high-dosage experimental cannabis treatment. [continues 556 words]
Medical marijuana advocate Michelle Rainey died Wednesday night from cancer, which she had been battling for more than a year. The 39-year-old passed away at her home in Maple Ridge with her husband, Jeff Tek, and her mother Emilie at her side. "The drug and peace movement has lost a warrior," said her friend and fellow activist David Malmo-Levine. Rainey was receiving high doses of an experimental tumour-fighting cannabis treatment to fight melanoma and lymphatic cancer when she died. [continues 375 words]
One of Canada's most recognizable marijuana crusaders, Michelle Rainey, has died of cancer. Rainey, 39, was one of Canada's most active and established marijuana advocates. She helped establish the B.C. Marijuana Party, and ran as a candidate -- touring the province in U.S. President Ronald Reagan's old campaign tour bus, which she nicknamed the "Cannabus." She was also the organizational force behind Prince of Pot Marc Emery's marijuana-based business empire, although their relationship deteriorated and they split after being hit with a 2005 U.S. drug-and-money-laundering indictment. [continues 351 words]
Michelle Rainey, a Former Business Partner of Marc Emery, Said She Hoped Her Legacy Would Be Change Michelle Rainey, Prince of Pot Marc Emery's ex-business partner and blond bombshell medical marijuana advocate, has died of cancer. She had lived with Crohn's disease since she was a teenager and in the last years of her life struggled against melanoma and lymphatic cancer. Her husband, Jef Tek, and mother, Emilie, were at her side, each holding a hand, when she succumbed Wednesday night at her home in Maple Ridge in spite of last-ditch, high-dosage experimental cannabis treatment. [continues 564 words]
Prince of Pot Marc Emery's ex-business partner and blonde bombshell medical marijuana advocate, Michelle Rainey has died from cancer. She had lived with Crohn's Disease since a teenager and in the last years of her life struggled against melanoma and lymphatic cancer. Her husband Jef Tek and mother Emilie were at her side, each holding a hand, when she succumbed Wednesday night in spite of last-ditch, high-dosage experimental cannabis treatment. The 39-year-old Rainey was the organizational force behind Emery's pot-based business empire although their relationship deteriorated and they split after being hit with a 2005 U.S. drug-and-money-laundering indictment. [continues 541 words]
Herb Museum included drug-related memorabilia, artifacts No one can accuse local pot activist David Malmo-Levine of being a quitter. Just months after being released from prison for possession of marijuana and magic mushrooms for the purpose of trafficking, Malmo-Levine is organizing a fundraising art auction to resurrect his Herb Museum, formerly housed at 123 East Hastings St. Malmo-Levine said the museum was targeted in a February 2008 raid by the VPD--their target was his Vancouver School of Drug War History and Organic Cultivation, a.k.a. Herb School, which housed the museum. [continues 444 words]
Vancouver's "Prince of Pot," Marc Emery, was sentenced in a Seattle courtroom yesterday to five years in prison by a U.S. Federal Court. It was the sentence Emery and his wife Jodie had been looking for since his guilty plea in late May to conspiracy to manufacture marijuana. "We feel that we'll probably get the sentence we were expecting," Jodie Emery told a rally of about 30 supporters outside the courthouse. The crowd waved signs reading "Free Marc" and chanted their support as passing cars honked their horns. [continues 384 words]
Vancouver's "Prince of Pot," Marc Emery, was sentenced in a Seattle courtroom Friday afternoon to five years in prison by a U.S. Federal Court. It was the sentence Emery and his wife Jodie had been looking for since his guilty plea in late May to conspiracy to manufacture marijuana. "We feel that we'll probably get the sentence we were expecting," Jodie Emery told a rally of about 30 supporters outside the courthouse. The crowd waved signs reading "Free Marc" and chanted their support as passing cars honked their horns. [continues 384 words]
Vancouver's "Prince of Pot," Marc Emery, was sentenced to five years in prison by a U.S. federal court on Friday. It was the sentence Emery and his wife Jodie had been looking for since his guilty plea in late May to conspiracy to manufacture marijuana. "We feel that we'll probably get the sentence we were expecting," Jodie Emery had told a rally of about 30 supporters outside the Seattle courthouse. The crowd waved signs reading "Free Marc" and chanted their support as passing cars honked their horns. [continues 306 words]
Sentenced to five years behind bars, Canada's Prince of Pot, Marc Emery, was led off to an American penitentiary Friday repenting his seed-selling sins and professing love for his wife. "I love you, Jodie!" he mouthed silently to her as he was led away. There may be a place for and time for a debate over the legalization of marijuana, the judge told him, but this is not the time or the place -- marijuana is illegal. In a beige prisoner's jumpsuit, Emery sat throughout the 15-minute hearing with his hands folded under his chin. [continues 812 words]
Compassion Clubs Facing Charges After June Raids About 25 people, including 10 arrested in police raids in June at four Montreal compassion clubs that bill themselves as medical marijuana distribution centres, milled about the Montreal courthouse corridors yesterday discussing the risks in providing pot to manage pain. Those arrested, including another group in Quebec City, face charges of possession with intent to traffic, trafficking, and conspiracy. They learned that court hearings are to resume Oct. 4 for those connected to the outlet on Papineau St. and another in Plateau Mont Royal. The Crown is expected to disclose its evidence to defence lawyers then. [continues 303 words]
2nd Time in 4 Months A downtown Toronto clinic that provided medical marijuana remained closed Thursday after the second police raid in four months. Neev Tapiero, owner of the CALM Compassion Club at 106 Queen St. E., was arrested later at his home Wednesday, Const. Tony Vella said. Complaint Officers from 51 Division investigated a "community complaint," and seized an allegedly larger than-permitted stock of pot, plus hashish and hash oil, Vella said. Several people in the storefront near Jarvis St. were briefly detained, he said. [continues 82 words]
Gabriola RCMP want the public to help them crack down on drug activity on the Island, but one officer says that some people in the tight-knit community might be reluctant to turn in their neighbours. RCMP have busted a number of marijuana-growing operations on Gabriola this year. Most recently, police dismantled two grow-ops at two separate homes on July 8. About 200 plants were seized from a home on Gallagher Way and five firearms and a crossbow were also found inside, police say. They arrested a man and a woman. [continues 335 words]
Two people who grow medical marijuana in a house in Pitt Meadows are vowing to fight the city as it amends a bylaw to shut their operation down. In a cul-de-sac at the end of a quiet residential street, the pair have just harvested a third crop of 98 plants for a woman who suffers from leukemia. She uses marijuana to control pain by turning it into a tea and blending it with spaghetti sauce. "We are willing to fight," said Shannon Rowe, who has a Designated-Person Production Licence from Health Canada - a permit that allows her to grow legal pot. [continues 695 words]
Canada's 'prince of pot' tried to plant the seeds of marijuana freedom in the U.S., but ended up behind bars instead. For years, his seed catalogues were scrutinized by discerning cannabis cultivators across the U.S. and Canada, much like the ladies of Cumbria might fuss over Chiltern's inventories of sweet peas and heirloom tomatoes. There was Blue Heaven pot, capable of producing a "euphoric, anti-anxiety high," or Crown Royal, whose "flower tops come to a flat golden crown, sparkling with gems of THC," or Hawaiian Sativa, with its "menthol flavour that tingles the taste buds and tickles the brain." [continues 1507 words]
MONTREAL - Police have done the Mob and street gangs a favour by cracking down on cannabis clubs, say pot decriminalization advocates. They warn that people will now be buying their stuff from criminal networks instead of tax-paying businesses. Thirty-five people were arrested in raids on Quebec's so-called "compassion clubs-" storefront outlets operating in plain view - while 90 kilograms of cannabis were also seized Thursday. Those clubs in Montreal and Quebec City offered a wide selection of marijuana for about $10 a gram to customers who claimed a medical condition and provided a doctor's note. [continues 677 words]
Pot 'Compassion Centres'; $10,000 In Cash And 35 Suspects A Lachine medical-marijuana-distribution shop - which raised eyebrows by openly operating for months within eyesight of that borough's police station - has been put authoritatively out of business. A sweeping police crackdown Thursday shut all four such "compassion centres" operating on Montreal Island. More than 80 officers equipped with search warrants were deployed to a total of nine locations, five of them private homes of suspects involved in the retail outlets. [continues 658 words]
Police seized 1,744 pot plants from a house in Maple Ridge Thursday which was licensed to grow marijuana. The bust in the 12000-block of Skillen Street follows a four-month long investigation that found the a resident of the home was allegedly growing more marijuana than allowed. "To my knowledge, this is the first case that involves a place where someone has a license to grow marijuana legally, where police have seized marijuana from," said RCMP Insp. Derren Lench. [continues 232 words]
Pot smokers of the world -- or rather Sudbury -- unite. Two Sudbury women -- Kayla Guse, 19, and Kayla Perron, 21 -- are organizing a Free Marc Emery and an End the Prohibition of Marijuana Protest on Saturday in Memorial Park from 2 to 4:30 p.m. There will be signs, speeches, some guitar picking and, of course, likely some smoking. "It's going on in multiple cities, 53 cities across the world," said Guse. "Because Marc Emery came here a few times, I wanted to give him my respect and hold one in Sudbury." [continues 453 words]
A Port Alberni man rolled marijuana joints inside Nanaimo-Alberni MP James Lunney's constituency office on Argyle Street Tuesday morning to protest the federal extradition of a popular pot enthusiast. Mik Mann, who also heads up the local chapter of the marijuana political party, sat inside the doorway of Lunney's office taking pot out of a silver tin and rolling marijuana joints. "It's Burmese homegrown," Mann said as he sprinkled pungent small green leaves onto a rolling paper. "I grow it myself at home." [continues 351 words]
