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By: Amy Rolph, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

 

Did you notice the protesters outside Seattle's federal courthouse? They're calling on President Barack Obama to free marijuana activist Marc Emery, who will be sentenced Friday.

 

Emery, known in Canada as the "Prince of Pot," is facing five years in U.S. prison for selling marijuana seeds through the mail. He'll be sentenced at 1:30 p.m.

 

"It's crazy that he's going to prison for selling seeds, and that the federal government is willing to spend millions of dollars prosecuting and imprisoning him," the group Sensible Washington said in a statement. "President Obama should pardon Emery and get busy with reforming America's outdated marijuana laws."

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By QMI Agency / Toronto Sun

 

Canada's Prince of Pot is facing five years in a U.S. prison and will be sentenced Friday in Seattle.

 

Marc Emery, 52, who lived in Vancouver, B.C., and is a native of London, Ont., is a pot advocate and was extradited to the U.S. in May after he was charged with selling marijuana seeds through the mail.

 

The five-year deal is part of a plea deal between Emery and U.S. authorities.

 

In a blog post on his website, freemarc.ca, Emery wrote that one of the best things about sentencing will be his transfer application, which would move him to a Canadian prison.

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By: Chris Selley, National Post

 

If someone were to assemble a world ranking of unjustly imprisoned people, and if he were to put Marc Emery anywhere near the top, I would not be sympathetic. Canada's so-called "prince of pot," scheduled to be sentenced today in Seattle to a stiff five years in prison (that's the sentence he plea-bargained to!) flagrantly violated the law. Wanting to smoke and sell pot isn't like being gay in Iran: It's something you can easily avoid, even though you shouldn't have to. However asinine, the law's the law. Like alcohol, which is legal -- and very much unlike tobacco, which is also legal -- marijuana is no better than harmless. We should all have the right to partake of our drug of choice, but on a spectrum of rights worth fighting, going to prison or dying for, it's not likely to win you a Nobel.

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By: Jill Drews, News 1130

 

VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - The 'Prince of Pot' makes his last step toward a federal prison tomorrow. Marc Emery will be sentenced in a Seattle court room.

 

Emery has already signed a plea deal, meaning he will likely serve a five-year federal term for selling marijuana seeds to American customers. His wife Jody says she is worried. She's relatively close to her husband now, but he could end up in a number of American cities once the deal is done. "Pennsylvania, Mississippi, Georgia, Texas, North Carolina and California. We're hoping he gets sent to California, but it's whatever the Bureau of Prisons decides."

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By: Linda Solomon, Vancouver Observer

 

After a long extradition fight that ended earlier this year, Mark Emery is finally going to prison, news reports say.

 

Observers expect Emery to receive a five year prison term.

 

Emery's legal team essentially agreed to this in a plea bargain earlier in the year and Emery is expected to pull out of the agreement if the judge tries to impose a longer term.

 

"It has always been my sincere belief that the prohibitions on cannabis are hurtful to U.S. and Canadian citizens and are contrary to the constitutions of both countries," the 52-year-old wrote in the Sept. 1 letter.

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By Steve Elliott, Toke of the Town

 

Marijuana activists from Washington state and around North America will gather outside the Federal Courthouse at 700 Stewart Street in Seattle on Friday, September 10, to protest the sentencing of Marc Emery, the "Prince of Pot," who faces five years in prison for selling mail-order cannabis seeds to Americans.

 

Cannabis advocates are calling on President Barack Obama to pardon Emery, who faced federal charges after Drug Enforcement Administration agents entered Canada and arrested him in 2005. He is expected to be sentenced to five years in federal prison under a plea agreement reached with federal prosecutors.

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By: JEFF HODSON, Metro News Vancouver

 

Marijuana activist Marc Emery is expected to be sentenced in a Seattle court early Friday afternoon.

 

Emery has been held in a maximum-security pretrial facility since May 24 when he pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to manufacture marijuana. He is expected to receive five years in a federal prison, the term agreed upon in his plea bargain.

 

There is a possibility, explained Marc’s wife Jodie Emery, that the judge could award a sentence of more or less than five years — nullifying the plea agreement and opening the door for either the prosecution or defence to take Emery’s charge to trial.

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By Cannabis Culture

 

CANNABIS CULTURE - Sentencing memorandums have been filed in the case of Canada's 'Prince of Pot' Marc Emery, the marijuana activist who will be sentenced on Friday, September 10 in a US Federal courtroom for selling cannabis seeds.

 

Following are separate memorandums filed by US prosecutors and counsel for Marc Emery.

 

United States Sentencing Memorandum filed by the U.S. Justice Department (Jenny A. Durkan and Todd Greenberg) on August 31, 2010

 

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By LEVI PULKKINEN, Seatlle Post-Intelligencer

 

Marc Emery -- "Prince of Pot," purported political prisoner and shameless self-promoter -- will soon become Marc Emery, prison inmate.

 

When he faces a federal judge Friday in a Seattle courtroom, the Canadian marijuana seed dealer will almost certainly be sentenced to a five-year term in federal prison.

 

A plea agreement inked earlier this year to end the five-year-old prosecution guarantees as much. Should U.S. District Court Judge Ricardo Martinez impose another sentence, either Emery or the prosecution could pull out of the deal.

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