Five years for selling plant seeds. This is fucking pathetic. How can any sane person possibly justify this? And why in the hell is the Canadian gov't.  allowing this to happen? Stephen Harper needs to tell King George to mind his own damn business - and to stuff his fascist policies right up his royal bum. Without the benefit of lubricants.


Marc Emery agrees to five years in Canadian prison

Ian Mulgrew, Vancouver Sun

Published: Monday, January 14, 2008

VANCOUVER - Marc Emery, Vancouver's self-styled Prince of Pot, has tentatively agreed to a five-year prison term in a plea bargain over U.S. money laundering and marijuana seed-selling charges.

Facing an extradition hearing Jan. 21 and the all-but-certain prospect of delivery to American authorities, Emery has cut a deal with U.S. prosecutors to serve his sentence in Canada. He also hopes it will save his two co-accused - Michelle Rainey and Greg Williams, who were his lieutenants for so much of the past decade.

The three were arrested in August 2005 at the request of the United States and charged even though none had ventured south of the border. Since then, they have been awaiting the extradition hearing. With the proceedings about to begin, Emery says his lawyer brokered the best deal possible.