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CANADIAN TO FILE CHARGES AGAINST MARIJUANA ACTIVIST IN BID TO THWART EXTRADITION BY U.S. AUTHORITIES

By Hempology | September 30, 2005

VANCOUVER – A private citizen says he’s filing charges Friday against marijuana activist Marc Emery and two of his associates, partly because that will throw a wrench into the United States’ plans to extradite the trio to face drug charges in that country.

“If he gets charged in Canada that will have major legal consequences for that extradition request,” said David McCann, a local philanthropist and businessman.

McCann said he has hired prominent lawyer Peter Leask in filing three charges of conspiracy under the Controlled Drugs and Substance Act and the Criminal Code of Canada.

Canada has been hypocritical in allowing Emery to sell marijuana seeds and collecting thousands of dollars in taxes while the city of Vancouver gave him a business licence for his pot paraphernalia store, he said.

“We have let him operate and now we let the Americans walk into our country and charge a man who they will probably lock away for the rest of his natural life in the United States for doing something that the government of Canada condoned. And you know, I got a problem with that as a Canadian.”

Emery, along with his co-accused, Michele Rainey-Fenkarek and Greg Keith Smith, were arrested July 29 after police raided Emery’s store following an 18-month investigation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

Kirk Tousaw, one of Emery’s lawyers, said it’s possible that the United States’ attempts to extradite his client would be thwarted.

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