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Marc Emery’s home raided by Victoria Police
By Hempology | March 5, 2002
[This morning, Marc Emery, owner of Hemp BC and Cannabis Culture Magazine,
had his Victoria home raided. The police found nothing and he is free, but
the methods employed by the police force were beyond harassment; read more
for details... Marc will be speaking at the
3rd Annual
Cannabis Convention
at Camosun College in Victoria on Sunday, March 17th. The public is welcome
to come and listen to him and the many other guest speakers we'll have that
day. The convention starts at 1pm, in the Young Building.]
Police raid Marc Emery
by Reverend Damuzi (05 Mar, 2002)
Looking for grow-op in famous activist’s home
In the early hours of March 5, Victoria police quietly surrounded the
home of famous Canadian marijuana activist Marc Emery and his partner
Coral Clay, then rang his phone until he awoke to answer it. Emery looked
at his clock as he lifted the receiver. 3:30 am.
“This is the Victoria Police,” said the cop. “We have your house surrounded.
We have a warrant to enter the premises. Please go out your front door, do
not go back into your house. Out onto the sidewalk. Is there a child in the
house?”
There was a child in the house. Coral’s son, Dylan. The tactics employed by
Victoria Police were intentionally intimidating, and the presence of a
child may have been the deciding factor in keeping police from kicking in the
door and firing tear gas grenades. Marc stumbled out onto the sidewalk in the
predawn light in his underwear. Coral was still pulling on her shirt as she
hurried out with Dylan to stand beside him.
Officers eventually emerged from the darkness with a warrant. Had they
daunted the “Prince of Pot” as they had hoped? Not a bit, says Emery.
He casually invited them in out of the cold.
“Eight cops sheepishly troop in, because I’m not the least bit
disappointed-looking and they know this isn’t going to be as juicy as they
fantasized,” said a scornful Emery.
The warrant specified that police were looking for plants, pots, lights,
ballasts, capacitor assemblies, fans, blowers, fertilizers, scales, and
documentation associated with the production of marijuana.
“This young cop, Constable Colin Brown, is doing his best unthreatening ‘let
me explain why we’re here,’” recalled Marc. “When, within a few seconds and
a cursory look at our very middle class home with no grow op or anything odd,
he realizes his fishing expedition has come up empty.”
Marc vividly recalls the officer’s explanation for the raid: “On Wednesday,
I was walking by and smelled pot. So we got a warrant to enter your property
to look at your electrical meter, which seemed a bit higher than normal. I
smelled what now appears to be your dryer exhaust vent, but I thought I
detected the smell of pot coming from it when we executed the earlier warrant
Saturday.”
Search warrants require probably grounds. The “probable grounds” offered by
Constable Brown were so unbelievably weak that they cast serious doubt on
the already ailing reputation of our justice system, and on the reputation
of Justice D Maihara, who signed the warrant.
“Since none of [Constable Brown's] assertions turn out to be true, it is
obvious that any police officer can get a search warrant by literally lying
and making up whatever information they require to get in your house,” said
Emery. “The terrifying thing is that any pot smoker in Canada could have
their homes invaded by big uniformed secret police Nazis because of second
hand pot smoke.”
Obviously, police have had an axe to grind with Emery since the mid-90′s
when he opened Hemp BC on Vancouver’s Hastings Street, sparking a bong,
book and hemp shop revolution across Canada. Since then, Emery has been
successful as the publisher of Cannabis Culture Magazine, the mastermind
and owner of Pot TV, the founder of the BC Marijuana Party, and the
proprietor of Marc Emery’s Seeds, a company famous for marketing
high-quality genetics.
Since 9-11, activists, medpot clubs and booksellers throughout the US
have been targeted and busted by federal agents. Canada is now welcoming
US federal intelligence and drug war agencies onto its sovereign territory,
including the DEA and FBI, while allocating millions of dollars in extra
funding to CSIS. With US President Bush running an ad campaign that blames
marijuana smokers for supporting terrorism because they buy pot, it is
likely that intelligence operations and busts against marijuana activists,
users, traffickers and growers will become more common. The US drug war,
brought to you courtesy of global domination, is now available in Canada,
and without strong public outcry, it is here to stay!
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