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Marc Emery's Advice for Aspiring Activists

Submitted by JodieEmery on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 11:07am

My wife Jodie Emery and I both receive thousands of letters and inquiries with impassioned pleas that read: "I want to do something to make a difference. I want to legalize marijuana. What can I do? Can you advise or help me start? Where do I begin?" This is a question, without rival, that we hear most often.

It comes mostly from Americans and Canadians, but I have received the same question from India, Australia, Europe, the Philippines, Japan, and all over the world. It is a universal desire shared by many people in the cannabis culture the planet over. Read more »

Election in Canada - It's time to get active!

Submitted by Nicole Seguin on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 8:07pm

Hey All,

As you're probably heard, we are now in the midst of a Federal Election in Canada! That means S-10 is now dead, and that we have a chance to defeat Stephen Harper!

We at End Prohibition are once again joining with the www.WhyProhibition.ca team to help you track the Conservative candidate or incumbent in your area, and hold them to account for supporting Harper's crime policies - crime policies based on ideology instead of science, at a cost the Conservatives are unwilling to admit.

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Drug Users Speak Out - Locally and Nationally

Submitted by HappinessIsaWarmGun on Thu, 12/16/2010 - 9:22pm

Let's use this group as a way to share information and link up local drug user activists with others doing the same thing in other communities around your province and the country.

As an individual you can find out what others in your area are doing and hopefully meet other people who you can organize together with and present a stronger, clearer voice for bringing our issues into the public discussion in your community.

We need to have our voice in the big cities, such as groups like VANDU or ADDICQ represent, and we also need to start speaking out in smaller cities, even with small groups of two or three friends who are willing to represent the issues of active drug users in public hearings or local health committees.

If you are a "hard" drug user then this is a group to share your ideas and meet others like you.

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Mernagh Affadavit Project - Video Howto

Submitted by Jacob Hunter on Wed, 10/13/2010 - 12:10pm

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Free Marc Emery September 18 World-Wide Rallies Confirmed Cities

Submitted by Jacob Hunter on Tue, 08/24/2010 - 5:01pm

Canmore Free Marc Emery Rally	Trans- Canada Highway Bridge Canmore	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 10:00am	Canmore
Free Marc emery rally & march	march to and from gov of nc mansion and federal court house 200 N Blount St, Raleigh, NC 27601 Raleigh, NC 27601	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 10:00am	Raleigh, NC 27601
Alabaster/helena/pelham Free Marc Emery rally	alabaster promenadealabaster	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 11:00am	alabaster
Free Marc Rally - Second Life	Second Life Online	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 4:00pm slt	Second Life, Online
Free Marc Rally at Federal Building in Atlanta	Atlanta Federal Building 75 Spring Street Atlanta, Georgia	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 3:00pm	Atlanta, Georgia
Free Marc Emery Austin, TX	Wooldridge Square Park 900 Guadalupe Street Austin, TX	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 2:00pm	Austin, TX
FREE MARC RALLY	Bridge above 151 NorthBeaver Dam	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 10:00am	Beaver Dam
RALLY TO RAISE AWARENESS OF MARC EMERY'S PLIGHT AT 2010 FOSTER'S BELMAR PRO	2010 Foster's Belmar Pro & Fins A.S.P. Junior Pro 16th and Ocean Ave. New Jersey, 07719 Belmar	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 8:00am	Belmar
America! Free Marc Emery!	BSU area 23rd & Paul Bunyan Bemidji, MN	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 12:00pm	Bemidji, MN
Freiheit für Marc Emery - Freedom for Marc Emery	rally starts at embassy of Canada, ends in front of US embassy vom Leipziger Platz zum Pariser Platz Berlin	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 4:00pm	Berlin
Free Marc Emery Demo	Canadian Embassy Leipziger Platz 17 Downtown Berlin	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 4:00pm	Berlin
21st Annual Boston Freedom Rally	Boston Freedom Rally Boston Common Massachusetts Boston	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 12:00pm	Boston
Worldwide Rallies to Free Marc Emery - Saturday, September 18	Harry Hays Building 220 4 AVE SE Calgary	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 2:00pm	Calgary
Free Marc Emery March	WV State Capital Complex Greenbrier St Charleston	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 4:00pm	Charleston
Free Marc Emery Rally	Custom House east bay str. charleston,sc	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 12:00pm	charleston,sc
Free Marc Emery/Legalize Cannabis Rally	Clock side of Trade and Tryon 100 S. Tryon St. North Carolina Charlotte	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 2:00pm	Charlotte
Free Marc Emery - Chatham	Dave VanKesteren's constituency office 6 King St West Chatham	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 12:00pm	Chatham
Free Marc Emery - Chilliwack	5 Corners Yale Road and Young Street Chilliwack	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 12:00pm	Chilliwack
Free Marc Emery - Chinchilla Australia	Chinchilla	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 12:00pm	Chinchilla
Free Marc Emery	Vine Street overpass outside the Freedom Center Vine Street Vine Street overpass outside the Freedom Center Cincinnati	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 12:00pm	Cincinnati
Free Marc Emery - Copenhagen	Copenhagen	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 2:00pm	Copenhagen
Free Marc Emery - Denver	Federal Courthouse in Denver 18th and Stout St Denver, Colorado	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 1:00pm	Denver, Colorado
Free Marc Emery	Edmonton Downtown and Whyte Ave Edmonton	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 10:00am	Edmonton
Edmonton's 'Free Marc Emery' Rally	McIntyre Gazebo Park 104 Street 83 Avenue Edmonton	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 4:00pm	Edmonton
Free Marc Emery World-Wide Rallies: September 18	Office of Essex MP, Jeff Watson 186 Talbot St. South Office of Jeff Watson, MP for Essex Essex, Ontario	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 12:45pm	Essex, Ontario
FREE MARC EMERY FORT LAUDERDALE FLORIDA	Fort Lauderdale Federal Court House 299 Easy Broward Blvd Fort Lauderdale	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 4:00pm	Fort Lauderdale
Free Marc In Gravenhurst!	Giant Tiger Parking Lot Main street Gravenhurst	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 10:30am	Gravenhurst
FREE MARC EMERY RALLY IN GREENVILLE, SC	Falls Park at the Reedy River Main Street and Camperdown Way Greenville	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 4:00pm	Greenville
Free Marc Emery	guilford guilford any where guilford	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 12:30pm	guilford
FREE MARC EMERY WORLDWIDE RALLY (HAMILTON)	HAMILTON FEDERAL BUILDING 55 BAY STREET NORTH HAMILTON	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 2:00pm	HAMILTON
Hamilton Free Marc Rally	Federal Building 55 Bay Street North Hamilton, Ontario	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 2:00pm	Hamilton, Ontario
Hartford, CT Marijuana Law Reform Rally	Streetside Capital Building 210 Capitol Ave. Bring signs and loud voices! Hartford	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 2:00pm	Hartford
Free Marc Emery Indianapolis	The Magic Bus - Indianapolis 1073 Broad Ripple Ave Indianapolis	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 2:00pm	Indianapolis
Free Marc Rally Sept 18	Free Marc Emery Smokey the Bear Park (across bridge from Rainy River Ont, Canada) International Falls, Minnesota	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 12:00pm	International Falls, Minnesota
Free Marc Emery by the 70!	Autoroute 70 Autoroute 70 / St-Hubert / St-Dominique Jonquière	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 1:00pm	Jonquière
((WakeUp!!)) REPEAL PROHIBITION - Free Marc Emery	Downtown 442 Victoria Street (sidewalk) British Columbia Kamloops	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 3:30pm	Kamloops
Free Marc Rally / KC HempFest	Swope Park, Shelter 3Kansas City, MO	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 12:00pm	Kansas City, MO
Free Marc Emery Rally	Queensway Transit Loop (across from Fed Building) Queensway Street BC Kelowna	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 12:00pm	Kelowna
Free Marc Emery - Kelowna	Kelowna Federal Building 471 Queensway Ave Kelowna, BC	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 12:00pm	Kelowna, BC
Worldwide Rally to Free Marc Emery	Kitchener City Hall 200 King st W Kitchen Ontario	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 2:00pm	Kitchen Ontario
Free Marc Emery Rally for Solidarity	Girard Park 500 Girard Park Drive Lafayette, LA	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 2:00pm	Lafayette, LA
Free Marc Emery UK Leeds Rally	Leeds City Square City Square LS1 2ES Leeds	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 5:00am	Leeds
Free Marc Emery Rally	Reefer Gardens Mayor Magrath Drive S Lethbridge	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 11:00am	Lethbridge
Freemarcrally	Canadian EmbassyLondon	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 1:00pm	London
Free Marc Emery Worldwide Rally	Victoria Park Bandstand Richmond St London	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 9:00am	London
FREE MARC EMERY MISSISSAUGA	Erin Mills Parkway & Dundas "police station" Erin Mills Parkway & Dundas St W Mississauga	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 3:30pm	Mississauga
FREE MARC EMERY RALLY MONTGOMERY ALABAMA	Dexter Ave. FountainMontgomery	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 12:00pm	Montgomery
FREE MARC EMERY RALLY	Dexter Avenue Fountain Dexter Avenue Montgomery, AL	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 12:00pm	Montgomery, AL
"Free Marc Emery World-Wide Rallies" à Montréal!	Centre ville de Montréal (point de départ exact à venir)Montreal	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 1:00pm	Montreal
Free Marc Rally	bastion street bridge downtown Nanaimo bastion street bridge downtown Nanaimo Nanaimo	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 12:00pm	Nanaimo
Free Marc Emery Worldwide Rally	Nelson Court House Ward & Vernon Nelson, British Columbia (Traditional Sinixt Territory)	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 12:00pm	Nelson, British Columbia (Traditional Sinixt Territory)
FREE MARC North Bay ON!	North Bay Ontario Lee Park at the corner of Judge St and the overpass North Bay	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 1:00pm	North Bay
Free Marc Emery!	Town Park Hwy 97 and 350th Avenue Oliver	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 12:00pm	Oliver
Free Marc Emery - Oslo	Oslo	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 12:00pm	Oslo
Free Marc Emery Rally in Ottawa @ Parliament Hill	Parliament Hill Wellington st http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=121299521252352 Ottawa	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 12:00pm	Ottawa
Free Marc Emery	Federal Courthouse Building 100 Monroe St. the corner of Main and Monroe St. Peoria, Illinois	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 3:00pm	Peoria, Illinois
Free Marc Emery Peterborough Rally	Victoria Park Corner of Water St & Brock St Peterborough	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 2:00pm	Peterborough
Marc Emery Freedom Day - South Australia	The Bridgeway Hotel Bridge Road Head East, into the valley. Pooraka	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 12:00pm	Pooraka
W.E.E.D JAM ft. EMULSIPHIERE	The Cave 660 Emma Street RSVP GLEN SMITH CAVE PRODUCTIONS Port Elgin	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 6:00pm	Port Elgin
FREE MARC EMERY	Cornerstoned 15th St. E Prince Albert, SK	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 1:00pm	Prince Albert, SK
True north strong and free Marc Emery	Prince george Caunnaught Hill Prince George	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 3:00pm	Prince George
Providence, RI "Send Marc Home to Canada" Rally - RI State House 12:00 Noon	Providence, RI 1 Capitol Hill RI STATE HOUSE Providence	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 9:00am	Providence
"SEND MARC HOME TO CANADA" Day of Activisim: Sept. 18 ALL DAY	Corners of Thayer Street & Angell Street (Brown Univeristy) Thayer Street & Angell Street Providence	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 9:00am	Providence
Free Marc Emery Rally in Red Deer @ City Hall Park	Red Deer City Hall Park 4914 - 48 Avenue Red Deer, Alberta	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 12:00pm	Red Deer, Alberta
Free Marc Emery 2010 Regina	Victoria Park, downtown 12th ave/Scarth Regina	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 4:00pm	Regina
Free Marc Emery Support Rally/Campaign Fundraiser for Jay Selthofner	Classics Sports Bar 101 Blackburn Street Wisconsin, 54971 Ripon	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 4:00pm	Ripon
FREE MARC EMORY!	Oregon State Capitol 900 Court St. NE Salem	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 2:00pm	Salem
Free Marc Emery World-Wide Rallies	2 News Studio 299 S. Main St. UT Salt Lake City	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 4:30pm	Salt Lake City
Crusin in the '54 Cadillac with FREE MARC EMERY plastered on the side.	All Over This Damn CitySan Diego	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 12:00pm	San Diego
Free Marc Rally SASKATOON CITY HALL/ LIBRARY	Saskatoon City Hall/ Public Library 300 23rd St East Saskatchewan Saskatoon	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 12:00pm	Saskatoon
Free Marc Emery - Seattle	Seattle	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 12:00pm	Seattle
CHINA FREE MARC PROTEST	Futian jintian road Shenzhen	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 12:30am	Shenzhen
FREE MARC! @macalester college	macalester college Cross-section of Snelling and Summit st paul	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 1:00pm	st paul
FREE MARC EMERY RALLY	Courthouse Water Street St. John's	Sat, 09/18/2010 (All day)	St. John's
Free Marc Emery - Stockholm	Stockholm	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 12:00pm	Stockholm
FREE MARC EMERY Rally Tacoma WA	56th st./I-5 park&ride lots 56th and I-5 wa Tacoma	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 12:00pm	Tacoma
Marc emery extradition! medical marijuana in Florida petition!!	Adventure Island Tampa, FL 33617 E Bougainvillea Ave You may contact me for more info at ebwrightjr@gmail.com Tampa,FL	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 4:30pm	Tampa,FL
Free marc emery! Adventure Island parkinglot!! medical marijuana in florida signings Be heard!!	"Adventure Island parkinglot" Tampa, FL 33617Tampa,FL 33617	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 4:30pm	Tampa,FL 33617
Telluride Blues and Brews Festival	Telluride, CO in the park, in the campground.... Telluride, CO	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 11:00am	Telluride, CO
Free Marc Emery - Tempe Arizona	Tempe, Arizona	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 12:00pm	Tempe, Arizona
Free Marc and Get Him Home	to be announced soonThunder Bay	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 1:30pm	Thunder Bay
Free Marc Emery - Toronto	US Consulate 360 University Street Toronto	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 12:00pm	Toronto
Free Marc Emery - Trondheim Norway	TrondheimTrondheim	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 12:00pm	Trondheim
Free Marc Emery and Smoke The Vote in Tucson	Cheba Hut Tucson 1820 E. 6th Street Near the corner of 6th street and Campbell ave Tucson	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 5:00pm	Tucson
Free Marc Emery World-Wide Rallies: September 18	Your Town Victory Square Park Vancouver	Sat, 09/18/2010 (All day)	Vancouver
Free Marc Emery - East Vancouver	Commercial and Hastings Commercial Drive and Hastings St Vancouver	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 2:00pm	Vancouver
Free Marc Emery World-Wide Rallies	The 2 Corners of Kingsway and Rupert Kingsway at Rupert Vancouver BC	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 11:00am	Vancouver BC
Free Marc Emery World Wide Rally Sept. 18th 12pm Venice Beach, Ca.	Venice Beach, Ca 1800 Ocean Front Walk Venice Beach	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 12:00pm	Venice Beach
Free Marc Emery - Victoria	Victoria City Hall 1 Centennial Square Victoria	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 12:00pm	Victoria
Free Marc Emery - Fredericton	Waasis, NB Waasis	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 12:00pm	Waasis
Free Marc Emery Waterdown ON	Memorial Park Hamilton St. N. L0R 2H5 Waterdown ON	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 2:00pm	Waterdown ON
Free Marc Emery Rally Whitby	M.P. Jim Flaherty's office / Durham Region Headquarters Office 701 Rossland Road East meet at 12 pm. find the event on facebook too! Whitby	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 12:00pm	Whitby
Free Marc Emery rally in Windsor, Ontario	Ouelette and wyandotte Ouelette and Wyandotte Windsor	Sat, 09/18/2010 - 8:00am	Windsor
Free Marc Emery & Bring Him Back To CANADA	Coming SoonWinnipeg	Sat, 09/18/2010 (All day)	Winnipeg

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Visit Map of Rallies around the World

Here is my version of a free Marc handout which I have been spreading around my home town,Grande Prairie,AB,Canada. Please copy it and do the same in the name of freedom!

Submitted by newftroop on Mon, 08/02/2010 - 5:46pm

Who is Marc Emery?

Marc Emery is a Canadian cannabis activist. He is the leader of the British Columbia Marijuana Party, publisher and editor of Cannabis Culture Magazine, and operates Cannabis Culture Headquarters retail store and Pot-T V video network. He ran the world’s largest and most popular marijuana seed business, called “Marc Emery Direct Seeds”, from 1994-2005.

Marc Emery is well-known as a businessman and political activist in Canada for 30 years, fighting against censorship laws, big government, and other social issues even before he became a marijuana and drug reform activist. Read more »

How you can help

Submitted by Jacob Hunter on Wed, 06/30/2010 - 7:13pm

Here are six simple things you can do to help get Marc Emery safely back to Canada as soon as possible.

We also have a comprehensive list of 75 Fun Things You Can Do To Help Free Marc Emery, and when you sign up for updates (upper right corner), you receive future updates on Marc Emery and ongoing action to free him, delivered to your email inbox. Sign up now!

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Bring Marc Emery Home to Canada

Submitted by Dana Larsen on Wed, 06/30/2010 - 7:11pm

We want the Canadian government to bring Marc Emery home to serve his sentence in Canada.

This is a normal process called "Treaty Transfer" whereby American and Canadian prisoners are transferred home to serve their sentences in their native country. This is normally done so that prisoners can be closer to their families, and be better monitored and reintegrated into society.

Now that Marc Emery has been sentenced in the USA (to 5 years), his lawyers have initiated the treaty transfer application. They expect no objection from American authorities, but there must also be support from Canada’s Public Safety Minister.

Originally we were fighting for Canadian officials to block Marc's extradition entirely. Now we are simply asking the Public Safety Minister to accept Marc's treaty transfer and allow him to serve some of his sentence in Canada.

Please contact the Canadian Minister of Public Safety Vic Toews (pronounced "Taves") and ask him to approve Canadian citizen Marc Emery's prison transfer application so Marc can serve his sentence in Canada. Please be polite and respectful when contacting Vic Toews.

Download .pdf of Repatriate Marc Emery Letter to Vic Toews

The Hon. Vic Toews

Parliament Hill

Suite 306, HC Justice Building

Ottawa, ON

K1A 0A6

(No postage required in Canada)

You can also call or email Vic Toews:

204-326-9889

613-992-3128

Toews.V@parl.gc.ca

Be sure to promote the website www.FreeMarc.ca so others can help bring Marc Emery home! Read more »

Smile, You’re an Activist!

Submitted by Yukonlass on Mon, 06/21/2010 - 9:20pm

by Robin Petre

Marching or signing a petition is a surefire way to find happiness, researchers say.

People engaged in political activism are more likely to live happier and more fulfilling lives than the average person, according to two psychologists writing in a recent issue of the journal Political Psychology.

“There is something about activism itself that is beneficial for well-being,” says Tim Kasser, co-author of the research paper, which is based on studies of college students. “We found that activists were feeling more autonomy and more personal growth. They also felt they had better relationships, more purpose in life, and they liked themselves better.”

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Cries for clean needles

Submitted by Nicole Seguin on Thu, 05/20/2010 - 11:00pm

By: Christina Toth, The Times

Carrying mock coffins and hoisting signs that read 'Harm Reduction Saves Lives,' more than 80 activists from Vancouver and Abbotsford rallied at the civic square on Tuesday to draw attention to the city's high Hepatitis C infection rate, and what they called its 'harm production' bylaw.

According to the B.C. Centre for Disease Control, Abbotsford has the third highest rate of Hep C infections in B.C., where the numbers are already double the national rate.

But the city's 2003 bylaw, which effectively bans stationary or mobile needle exchange and other harm reduction strategies, stands in the way of prevention and care, said the protesters.

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Marc Emery's Advice for Aspiring Activists

Election in Canada - It's time to get active!

Drug Users Speak Out - Locally and Nationally

Mernagh Affadavit Project - Video Howto

Free Marc Emery September 18 World-Wide Rallies Confirmed Cities

Here is my version of a free Marc handout which I have been spreading around my home town,Grande Prairie,AB,Canada. Please copy it and do the same in the name of freedom!

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