The Long, Authoritarian Arm of American Drug Law

[Paregoric Kid]

The Long, Authoritarian Arm of American Drug Law

Matt Welch (http://www.reason.com/staff/hitandrun/134.html) | September 29, 2009, 5:06pm
Some lousy news (http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Marc+Emery+sentence+reeks+injustice+mocks+sovereig nty/2041190/story.html) from up north:
After two decades as Canada's Prince of Pot, Marc Emery will surrender himself today in B.C. Supreme Court and become the country's first Marijuana Martyr.

Emery will begin serving what could be as long as five years behind bars as Uncle Sam's prisoner for a crime that in Canada would have earned him at most a month in the local hoosegow. [...]

Emery hasn't even visited America but he was arrested in July 2005 at the request of a Republican administration that abhorred his politics.
More outrage here (http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Marc+Emery+sentence+reeks+injustice+mocks+sovereig nty/2041190/story.html); link via Kent Cowan. Reason has been covering Emery's case for years (http://www.reason.com/search/results/?cx=000107342346889757597%3Ascm_knrboh8&cof=FORID%3A11&q=%22Marc+Emery%22&sa=Search#915).

[lotus]

i've not kept up on this......suffice to say our fuktard priminister went for this, and sending american soldiers back to be persecuted etc. etc. it's been a long standing joke he wants to be an american.

emery did a cross canada see ya in 5 tour, stop'd at (or just outside) nearly every city you could think of.....and now, i guess that's that.

fuckin sad.

[Opiofiend]

This is why Americans are so hated around the world. We fuck around in every countrys business meanwhile our own country is falling Apart at the seams through our ancient and puritanical laws.

[nick]

To be honest,it's hard to have ANY sympathy with that total sleeze ball Emery.

[GOLD N DIEMONDS]

To be honest,it's hard to have ANY sympathy with that total sleeze ball Emery.

+1 :D / weak fucks