CBC - The Lens - The Prince of Pot 2007 10 23 xvid

CBC - The Lens - The Prince of Pot  200710 23 xvid

 

Canadian Marc Emery, Canada's most prominent marijuana legalization activist,

is at the top of the U.S, Drug Enforcement Agency's 'Most Wanted List' and now

faces extradition to the U.S. and possible life imprisonment. His crime -

selling marijuana seeds over the Internet. An occupation he has never denied.

In fact for more than a decade he has dutifully filed his income tax returns

in Canada stating his occupation as "marijuana seed seller". He paid his

taxes and was left alone by the Canadian authorities. However Canada's RCMP

suddenly and willingly co-operated when the DEA got him in their sights.

 

Widely known as "The Prince of Pot," Emery is the joint smoking publisher of

Cannabis Culture Magazine, founder of the BC Marijuana Party and a lifelong

rabble-rouser. And now, according to the DEA, one of the most wanted men in

the drug world, up there with the heads of Columbian cocaine cartels, and the

top drug trafficker in North America.

 

His story is the prism through which director, Nick Wilson, examines the touchy

issue of sovereignty, the long reach of U.S. drug laws, and Canadian pot

culture, while spending the summer embedded at the Emery defense headquarters.

 

Emery believes marijuana is a wonderful, healing drug and that current laws are

unconstitutional, inhumane, and detrimental to society, far outweighing the

damage done to people by the drug itself. No Canadian has ever gone to jail

for selling seeds, and in 35 years only two people have been charged - the last

got a $200 fine. Yet Emery faces 30 years to life in prison under U.S. drug

laws if he is extradited to face trail there.

 

THE PRINCE OF POT follows Emery through the summer and fall as he plots his

defense, attends court hearings and tries to clear the names of his two friends

who now face the same fate as him.

 

 

 

 

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