Canada's prince of pot sentenced to five years in jail in US.

[Swede]

And so the war on some drugs continues.


It was a sad emotional end to a 30-year public career by the staunch libertarian most Canadians considered a benign and charismatic political prankster.


The U.S. prosecutors said he was the "largest distributor in North America and at least the largest into the United States . . . .no doubt he sold millions of marijuana seeds that produced millions of marijuana plants in the U.S."





http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Canada+prince+sentenced+five+years+jail/3508028/story.html#ixzz0zErpETUR

[another saigon]

1. so sad

-snip-

Seeds traced to grow houses in every region of the U.S. were linked to Emery according to the prosecution, and the original DEA press release called Emery one of the "most wanted international drug trafficking organizational targets -- one of only 46 in the world and the only one from Canada."

Judge Ricardo Martinez, of the western Washington district court, told the 52-year-old Vancouver businessman that he had grown up along the Canadian border and was saddened by what illegal drugs have done to both countries.

"I regret the example we set," Emery told him, "and I won't be doing that again.

"I'd like to point out though that it made it sound like I'm a bad guy . . . but I had very good intentions and wanted to be considered a proper participant in our society. I do believe that these prohibition laws create a lot of problems and create organized crime."


Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Canada+prince+sentenced+five+years+jail/3508028/story.html#ixzz0zEwt6zNA

[mike r]

2. Idiotic law

and a stupid waste of taxpayer money.

[twenty20]

3. Will we ever see the light?

The ban on marijuana speaks to a blind, collective ignorance. Our stubborn, idiot 'system' continues to jam our courts and overfill our penal institutions with benign pot users and sellers (fellow productive citizens)...pitiful! Do we actually expect to stop or even slow-down marijuana cultivation, distribution and use...preposterous! Will we ever wise-up, legalize and tax the trade? Probably not in my lifetime.