Canada: Emery extradition hearing to start in May

[c-ray]

from http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20060926.BCBRIEFS26-1/TPStory/TPNational/BritishColumbia/

POSTED ON 26/09/06
British Columbia in Brief
SHANNON KARI

Vancouver -- The extradition hearing for Marc Emery and his co-defendants will begin in May of 2007, nearly two years after their arrest on charges of money-laundering and selling marijuana seeds over the Internet.

Mr. Emery, Greg Williams and Michelle Rainey were in B.C. Supreme Court yesterday to hear that what is expected to be a week-long hearing will start on May 28, 2007. The three defendants were arrested in July, 2005 at the request of the U.S. , following an investigation by its Drug Enforcement Administration.

[Tug]

Maybe Marc will get an awakening?
I doubt it, I think Canada will not extradite him as it will further open the flood gates to america, and america needs the awakening more than Emery.

peace - Tug

[Bram]

As much of a slimeball as marc is no one deserves to be extradited by a country that honestly has no right to arrest him for it. Besides didnt the Canadian Supreme court just pass a ruling that cannabis seeds and sales are legal in Canada. so why is are the 3 still facing possible extradition?

[Tug]

Cause he was selling them to america, which is illegal, and because he was selling so many, and publicly (and loudly) confessing to it, they want to make an example out of him.
BTW, no, the Supreme Court of Canada did not pass MJ seeds sales into legality.

peace - Tug

[Green Supreme]

https://www.cannabis-world.org/cw/showthread.php?t=1640 Think Bram was talkin about this.Peace GS

[Tug]

Yeah, it's still a crime, but in Canada the seed must be grown out to prove it was a viable MJ seed, and not a hemp-seed, which is completely legal in Canada.

This is the gray area in which seed companies can operate in Canada, because they know full well that Canada does not have in it's police budget enough funds to investigate, intercept, grow, and bud (to show a drug content over a certain %), then charge and prosecute the individuals responsible, all the while seed companies are shipping stealth method, which makes it all that much harder to come across in the first place.
Unlesss of course you are selling hundreds of thousands of dollars worth per year, and jumping up and down on a pedestal saying 'Fuck the US, screw 'em, sell 'em seeds, flood the market'.
Then they definately will look into big pressure from the US, which is the only reason the bust happened, Marc pays tax to the Canadian government for those seed sales, he's legally unburdened in Canada unless the Supreme Court here wants to take on a 'complicity' case......

Hell, the US wants Marc less than they want their foot in this door, to use in the future as a stepping-stone when they try further atrocities on Canadian soil.
This is all positioning on the US's part, for future rights/angles at our natural resources.
Anyone remember the US ambassador who signed the Free Trade agreement here (Morris I believe his name was, in 86 I think), he said publicly 'Canada has no idea what they have just signed into'.

peace - Tug

[mjcannaboid]

actually, under american laws the canadian government an accessory by taking those drug profits in taxes. the us government now has the legal right to confiscate all assets the canadian government have that used those funds.

it is just a u.s. plan to overthrow the canadian government. canada should attack now, before it's too late.

I'd hate to see marc get extradited, a canadian travesty of justice as an appetizer to the american travesty of justice.

[Lungus]

actually, under american laws the canadian government an accessory by taking those drug profits in taxes. the us government now has the legal right to confiscate all assets the canadian government have that used those funds.

it is just a u.s. plan to overthrow the canadian government. canada should attack now, before it's too late.

I'd hate to see marc get extradited, a canadian travesty of justice as an appetizer to the american travesty of justice.
I'm ready with the flamethrower.

[Bram]

hahahaha