Jodie Emory thankful for any support while husband jailed TheProvince / Andy Ivans / 12,28,2010 Marijuana activist Marc Emery and wife Jodie Emery attend a rally of supporters outside BC Supreme Court in Vancouver in this 2009 file photo. Photograph by: Jason Payne, PNG One thing that lifts Jodie Emery's spirits this Christmas is the outpouring of support her jailed husband has received from marijuana advocates around the world. Marc Emery is 10 months into his five-year sentence for selling marijuana seeds by mail order to customers in the U.S. He was transferred to a prison in Georgia last month. "Marc is always very positive and upbeat," his wife Jodie told The Province. "He says he does cry every day thinking of me, he just misses me so much. But when he's not thinking of me and how much he wants to be home, he's keeping really busy. "He gets a lot of mail. Every time the mail shows up, all the inmates start chanting, 'Free Marc! Free Marc!'" The Emerys recently staged a worldwide fund raising drive through the website freemarc.ca,which brought in more than $20,000. That money has gone to the legal team working to bring Marc back to Canada. Jodie says the Canadian transfer application is under way as is the U.S. application. The U.S. should have their decision by February. Once approved, Marc could return to Canada to finish serving his sentence. In Canada, Emery would be able to apply for day parole soon after being repatriated. He will have served one-third of his sentence in September 2011, which would allow him to apply for full parole. "He should have been charged in Canada and not sent to a foreign country he never went to," said Jodie. "He paid income tax on the seed sales. The [Canadian] government got over $580,000." Jodie last visited Marc during the weekend of Dec. 18 and 19. "It's a big visiting room with cameras and guards everywhere. You get to have a hug and kiss hello and you can hold hands the whole time. "There's no real violence," she added.
Marc Emery being jailed for weed is terrible; it's even more terrible that he was jailed in a country he's never been to. I do, however, think he's a huge, flying douche. Just sayin'.
But without assholes/douches,nothing gets cleaned up and Marc Emory was willing to stick his head up,and brought tons of positive recognition of our governments failure on being able to control drugs,,,,from anywhere.
I didn't know they convicted him. Thy made a really good point in the union when they said if someone in Canada/Mexico gets caught with an American gun that they bought illegally online, they prosecute the person who bought the gun, not the gun company in America.
Emery is in jail?! I stoped following the news about this soon after I heard of it figuring the US was blowing more hot air, how is this at all possible with the statues I'm sure have been set? Lets not even consider the moral aspect of this situation because neither have the people responsible for placing a non-violent, illegal alien into the already over crowded prison system. But how is it at all possible to convict someone who had not broken the law (in his home country) and Canada is cool with this?! Plane and simple the war on drugs is nothing more than a cash cow (the dollars that are being coerced from the Amercan people) for a very small few in power, it literally makes no sence outside of the economic gain. It's all so contradictory, let's just say the war on drugs works, everyone stops using, importing, exporting etc all drugs does big brother really expect us to believe that the economy could exist if trillions of dollars stoped flowing. I know of a great way to help out Ms.Emery, file suit against big tobacco execs, and the NRA they ship deadly products out of the country and in a lot of cases illegally to other parts of the world. Or how about the oil company's, they admittedly leak barrels upon barrels of oil into protected Eco systems (illegal) and yet they continue uninhibted while receiving government subsidizes. Although she'll probally need a few million to pay off the government I mean become a lobbyist organization.
Oh do I love how he's in my state. /sarcasm Why in the fuck is he in Georgia? It's not like he needs to be in Georgia. He could have been imprisoned in Washington, Oregon, Cali, etc. Closer places to his family. Not all the way across the country in one of the shittiest states.