Marc Emery's Blog

This letter I wrote about funding for religious schools was published in the Vancouver Sun.

Re: Should the public fund religious schools?, Oct. 31

The question posed by columnist Douglas Todd -- Should the public fund religious schools?"-- is the wrong question and leads to false conclusions.

The questions ought to be, Should parents be able to send children to a school of their choosing with the money the government seizes as taxation? And why is government running any school system?

Let parents direct the money they earn to a quality school in an independent educational marketplace and end the government tax-monopoly.

Marc Emery

Leader, BC Marijuana Party, North Fraser Pretrial Centre,

Port Coquitlam

I want to thank everyone who has been sending me mail and books while I'm here at North Fraser Pretrial. Unfortunately, I'm still not getting a lot of my mail due to inappropriate content, missing return addresses, and other silly things like included illegal Post-It notes or staples.

Here is a brief podcast about how to send me mail properly and my shout-out of thank-yous to those who have been able to get through!

Download 'How to send Marc mail' MP3 (Right click to save)

Write to Marc at this address:

Marc Emery
CS #06032080
1451 Kingsway Avenue
Port Coquitlam, BC
V3C 1S2
Canada

You must include a return address on all mail.

Any mail including the following items will be considered contraband by the guards who read the mail, and will be returned to you at your cost!

• Stickers, labels, tape & correction fluid(white-out), post it notes
• Anything glued on (including cards and glitter glue)
• Stamps, envelopes, writing paper, lottery tickets
• Polaroid photos, photo albums, revealing photos & inappropriate material ie. Marijuana leaf, logos
• Musical Cards
• Address books, calendars
• Hardcover books, magazines, newspapers, crossword puzzles, etc. (exception: NEW soft cover books ordered online from www.chapters.indigo.ca or directly couriered from publisher or photo copied.)
• Paperclips, staples, pins
• Feathers, dried flowers, etc.
• Jewelery
• Telephone calling cards, plastic cards, laminated items
• Pencils, pens, sharp objects
• Excessive perfume, lipstick etc.
• Scanned positive for an illegal substance
• Unknown Substance
• Unknown sender
• Unknown senders
• Court ordered No Contact

Ideas of what you can send Marc!

• Soft covered books ordered ONLY from www.chapters.indigo.ca
• Letters telling Marc what you are currently doing to support him
• Photos of you with your FREE MARC EMERY t-shirt
• Photos of you actively supporting Marc

Here is a poem I wrote from my prison cell.

Nowhere Man (With apologies to Lennon and McCartney)

Imagine life without cannabis,
that's life here.

Imagine life without music,
that's life here.

Imagine life without fresh food,
that's life here.

Imagine life without any privacy,
that's life here.

Imagine life without any sex,
that's life here.

Imagine life in only red pants and a red shirt,
that's life here.

Imagine life in a 8 by 10 foot concrete cell,
that's life here.

Imagine never touching the sun's rays,
that's life here.

Imagine life without being with any one you know,
that's life here.

Imagine being hungry every waking hour,
that's life here.

Imagine life without love,
that's life here.

Imagine never seeing a grape or a peach or a tomato,
that's life here.

Imagine changing linens threadbare once every ten days,
that's life here.

Imagine your happy memories gradually fading away,
that's life here.

Marc Emery is an activist currently locked up at North Fraser Pretrial Center in Port Coquitlam, B.C., while he awaits extradition to the United States for selling marijuana seeds on the internet and using the money to fund anti-prohibition activism around the world. Click here to find out more about Marc Emery.

This video by Paul McKeever is about some of my early activism from 1982 to 1986. Please ignore the 80's hair.

This covers a protest I sank thousands of hours into over four years, plus $15,000 to put out leaflets and hand deliver them myself every night for over a year. This was before the internet so you had to go door-to-door and do it physically, one house at a time. I delivered 35,000 pamphlets myself in 1983.

Here's what McKeever says about the video:

The City of Toronto is one of three cities bidding to host the 2015 Pan Am Games. The projected cost of its proposal is $1.77 billion. According to the plan, the lion's share of that money will be tax revenues collected by the governments of Toronto, Ontario, and Canada. In 1985, Freedom Party of Ontario, together with its then Action Director, Marc Emery, commenced a No Tax for Pan Am campaign against London Ontario's bid to host the 1991 Pan Am games using approximately $100M of tax revenue from the governments of London, Ontario, and Canada. The result: VICTORY. Londoners, and all other Canadians, were spared the burden of approximately $100 M. This video will show you how it was done, and give you the knowledge, and the hope, to prevent $1.77 billion in tax revenues from being spent on the Pan Am Games leading up to 2015.

Be Sure to Sign the Petition: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/no-tax-for-pan-am-toronto-2015

Starting a 'Free Marc Emery' rally in your city is easy!

On Saturday, Sept. 19. demonstrate at the main Gov't building, DEA office, US or Canadian consulate, or a busy spot downtown in your city.

Make signs that say "No Jail For Prince of Pot", "Google Marc Emery" or other messages to inform people passing by. Promote it with handbills. Use our poster template. Make a Facebook page. We'll put your contact info on the Rally home page. Send your info to jeremiah@cannabisculture.com

You can also put the banner below on your website and link it to The Worldwide Rally for The Prince of Pot information page: http://www.cannabisculture.com/v2/content/worldwide-rally-prince-pot-mar...

I'm speaking tonight at the SWEETWATER 905 ARTS FESTIVAL in Rolla, BC, just outside of DAWSON CREEK.

Its the 29th appearance on the Farewell Tour, this one is 45 minute version at 10 pm. Check out the Sweetwater 905 website.

I want YOU to design & submit FREE MARC EMERY illustrations or designs for use on T-Shirts, stencils, stickers, and banners.

Use any photographs in my facebook.com/marcemery or cannabisculture.com and give it a shot. We want to produce our own T-shirts and stuff, but we want all designs to be downloadable so anyone can make T-shirts, stencils, stickers and other communication motifs and distribute them all over.

I'd like to have a page of down-loadable designs for anyone to make t-shirts for themselves, to sell, or to give away, whatever, just to get a lot of people getting the word out there in a variety of messages and styles. But I would love it if we had several designs, eventually dozens, that in some way say Free Marc Emery, so people can make their own stencils and then paint/chalk/ Free Marc Emery on Construction Walls, sidewalks, etc. and make T-shirts with FME on them to sell at festivals and rallies and hemp stores.

Send them to JodieEmery@gmail.com

Lets get Will Foster, who is facing 20 years for growing marijuana, on ABC Television.

Please email, write, call or fax ABC Television Network attention Jon Stossel Phone: (212) 456-2467 Fax: (212) 456-2381 - JohnStossel@abcnews.com

Please politely and passionately request that he do a story on Will Foster, a medical marijuana grower facing 20 years in prison for Opertion Green Rx. Will's charges were dropped in California, but now he is being extradited back to Oklahoma to face jailtime. Read more about Will Foster's case here.

You can also call or write polite letters asking that the Tulsa DA stop prosecuting Will Foster:

TIM HARRIS
Tulsa County District Attorney
Tulsa County Courthouse
500 South Denver Avenue Suite 900
Tulsa, OK 74103
918-596-4805

I had a wonderful time speaking to a packed house at Green Canvas, the companion project to HEAD2HEAD Novelties, in Regina last night.

Later today, I speak at the stage in Kinsmen Park in Prince Albert at 7.00 pm. It'll be a 6 hour drive to PA starting at 10.30 am. Hoo-boy.

Click here for photos and info on The Farewell Tour.