MacLeans is reporting that Pot activist Marc Emery granted bail in U.S. extradition case
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The U.S. is seeking the extradition of Emery, the leader of the B.C. Marijuana Party.
He was indicted by a grand jury in the U.S. and faces a minimum of 10 years in jail for the drug charges.
Associate Chief Justice Patrick Dohm allowed Emery to go free on $50,000 bail.
He said Emery can continue his political work for the B.C. Marijuana Party, which is fighting for legalization of pot.
Emery will also be allowed to continue running his bookstore, where he allegedly sold pot seeds, and can resume operations at his Cannabis Culture magazine.
His lawyer John Conroy said the case against Emery is unfair because Canadian police have never charged him while he openly sold seeds for nine years.
“Even Health Canada was directing people to online websites like Mr. Emery’s to buy seeds. And now they’re helping the Americans,” he said at a news conference outside the court.
Emery and two others are accused by the U.S. of conspiracy to manufacture marijuana, conspiracy to distribute marijuana seeds and conspiracy to engage in money laundering.
More inforamtion can be found at the Cannabis Culture web site. There is also plenty to see over at Drug WarRant, including this post today.
….to import seeds into Finland ( as far as I recall)
Birdseed always contains a certain amount of cannabis seeds – though of what quality I do not know.
A Finnish cop friend once said to me “We never have any trouble with potheads, I don’t know why we bother”.
Well, we bother because you shouldn’t have kids around or drive cars or operate machinery, but otherwise, the Libertarian in me says decriminalize anything done in private between consenting adults which creates happiness for all involved in the full life cycle of such behaviour.
If marijuana is so bad for operating machinery, how do you explain rock and roll music?
The definition of machinery must be different from a tool. A tool is an extension of the human, whereas a machine is separate from a human, but interfaced in some way that a human may possibly control certain aspects of the machine’s function – like switching it on or off, or loading or deleting parameters for operation.
It is indeed a fine distinction. A car can be a tool (an extension of the human) where a tank becomes a machine. A vacuum cleaner is a tool, but I would contend that a washing machine isn’t.
Everything about the playing of rock and roll is about tools, but the business of rock and roll is machine-like, even though ‘operated’ by humans.
Is not a definition, but an analogy, equating music with
with the repetitive work of manual labour in relation to the machinery of mass production and war.