Unless it is all a rather nasty April Fools joke, as of April 1, 2014 life is going to be much tougher for medically challenged Canadians who have found using marijuana helps them with their illness. In a March 14, 2014 Health Canada news release, which reads like Harper wrote it himself, the threat of police action and prosecution has now been driven home to those already suffering from sickness. Essentially it says, "Do what we say or the police are coming to your house and you are going to one of the new jail cells Conservatives have built for you with your tax dollars." [continues 595 words]
Today, February 13, 2014, is Marc Emery's 56th birthday. He is spending this birthday as a Canadian citizen in a small cement box decorated with iron bars in an American prison in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Marc is a political prisoner who was put there through a collusion between the Harper government and the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) of the United States of America. As an outspoken proponent for the legalization of marijuana, to the tune of contributing over $4 million to the cause worldwide, they wanted him silenced. So they threw him into an American prison for five years. [continues 510 words]
Libby Davies of the NDP, former Solicitor General Wayne Easter of the Liberals and Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party of Canada, stood beside Jodie Emery during a press conference on Parliament Hill last week. All passionately addressed their remarks to Stephen Harper's new Minister of Public Safety, Mr. Steven Blaney. They were collectively pleading for Blaney's signature on documents, already signed by the Justice Department in the United States of America, which would allow Jodie's husband, Marc Emery, to be released from Mississippi's Yazoo Prison so he can serve the remainder of his 5-year prison sentence closer to his wife and family here in Canada. [continues 425 words]
