From: grmerrick@shaw.ca
On Fri, 09 Jan 2015 17:34:10 -0800, " (=_=)" wrote:
>Postmedia News - January 8, 2015
>
>
>Jodie Emery will run for Liberal nod
>
>Wife of 'Prince of Pot' Marc Emery doesn't like being called a one-issue
candidate
>
>
>The old building is like a marijuana super store, without marijuana for sale.
>There’s a large retail shop on the ground level that offers old-school pipes
>and papers and bongs, and pricey high-tech vaporizers for the modern, more
>health-conscious crowd. Upstairs there’s a comfortable, if malodorous,
lounge
>where bring-your-own cannabis products are openly consumed. Tobacco smoking is
>not allowed.
>
>Everywhere, there are illustrations and pictures of this town’s patron saint
of
>marijuana, the so-called Prince of Pot, Marc Emery. This is his joint, and on
>most days since his release last summer from a U.S. prison, where he served a
>five-year sentence for selling marijuana seeds, he can be found in his store
or
>in the lounge, getting high and handing out free samples of potent hash oils
>and what he calls his “8-bud blend.”
>
>Emery is as cantankerous as ever, directing written and verbal jabs at anyone
>he considers an enemy of the marijuana freedom and legalization movement and
to
>those he perceives as threats to himself and his wife, Jodie. His targets
>include Stephen Harper, who both Emerys despise.
>
>They have also included Liberal leader Justin Trudeau — which is a problem for
>Jodie.
>
>She’s a politician. She once ran as a provincial Green party candidate in
B.C.
> She’s now a member of Trudeau’s Liberal party and hopes to be his candidate
>in the riding of Vancouver East in the coming election. Vancouver East is NDP
>territory, long held by MP Libby Davies, who recently announced she won’t seek
>re-election.
>
>It’s hard to tell if her intentions are a lark, perhaps a publicity stunt to
>benefit the couple’s mini-business empire, or if she’s serious.
>
>“What if some radical managed to get a position and ran for the party and
>caused a massive headache and caused them to lose the election?” she asked.
>
>“Some people might say that would be me,” she added with a laugh. “I’m just
>joking.”
>
>A large bong sat on a desk in the office. On another desk lay a back issue of
>Cannabis Culture magazine, which the Emerys used to publish. I picked up the
>magazine and a sprinkling of medium-grind marijuana slid from the front cover
>and fell onto the floor.
>
>Emery, 30, doesn’t like being called a one-issue candidate, but marijuana and
>marijuana legalization seem the most important things to her, after her
>husband. She smokes marijuana recreationally, she advocates for it, she wants
>it to be made accessible to every adult in Canada.
>
>Two years ago, after Trudeau became Liberal leader and declared his party in
>favour of marijuana legalization, the Emerys decided they could endorse the
>Grits. Last year, a pair of Vancouver East riding executives asked Emery if
>she would put her name forward as the Liberal candidate. She thought it over
>for a couple of months, then decided she would do it.
>
>Not every Liberal was thrilled. The Emerys are controversial. And Marc Emery
>and Trudeau have a history, of sorts.
>
>In 2009, before he went to prison, Emery made a fiery speech attacking
Trudeau,
>who was then just a Liberal MP. Trudeau had voted in favour of a Conservative
>government bill supporting mandatory minimum sentences for lawbreakers, such
as
>unlicensed marijuana cultivators.
>
>“(Mr. Trudeau) has smoked with me four or five times,” Emery fumed at the
time,
>“so it really pisses me off when I see Justin Trudeau, who took big gaggers
>with me, is in Parliament actually voting for Bill C-15. What a … hypocrite.”
>
>Trudeau later accused Emery of “flat-out lying” and said he had never smoked
>marijuana with him.
>
>Marc Emery has mellowed, his wife claims.
>
>“Since Marc’s been out of prison, a lot of people were waiting to see how
>outrageous he would be, what kind of crazy statement he would make, how he
>would humiliate Trudeau. But a lot of people forget that prison kind of calms
>one down and as time goes by, you have a chance to stop and think and
strategize.”
>
>The strategy for securing the Vancouver East nomination? Sign up as many pot
>smokers as possible.
>
>Meanwhile, prominent veteran Vancouver city Coun. Raymond Louie said Wednesday
>he is no longer considering a bid to win the Liberal or New Democratic Party
>nomination in Vancouver East, considered one of the safest NDP seats in the
>country.
>
>B.C. New Democrat MLA Mable Elmore has already announced her candidacy while
>caucus mate Jenny Kwan and former city councillor Ellen Woodsworth have said
>they are seriously considering bids.
Marc Emory is actually a conservative free trade , open market
champion. His conservative buddy, Harper showed how much he cared
about Canadians when he allowed a Canadian who broke no Canadian laws
to be sent to the States and tried under US laws. Mable Elmore should
stand up for the poor and stand up for the NDP and its already stated
position on pot. Pot is not the problem. Poverty is.
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> It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the
environment
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> ~ Ansel Adams
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