Marc Emery: The Howard Roark Of The Pot Wars

My hearing isn't going to start on time on May 28. They're going to change my dates because of other cases that they think are more important - murder trials and such. It's been two years already. It's easy to bump me because my case is unpopular in Canada. They know that the public isn't behind this. But I don't get a trial in Canada and the U.S. doesn't know what it's in for; they've never tried to prosecute anyone that Canadians really care about. The United States is oblivious. They're used to getting everything they want and they're gonna get YOU! This is a government that would give up its own people.

No one wants to encourage me to give myself up to a U.S. prison for 10 or 15 years as a martyr, because they don't want to be responsible for any crazy decision I make. But I'd rather go to jail in the United States and have people really angry and bitter and causing all sorts of trouble, having rallies and whatever. I'd like to keep the crisis going. As soon as I agree to a deal, people will say, "Marc agreed to it; there's no more crisis, there's nothing to protest."

Here's the exclusive story on my defence - there is no defence. The defence I want to do, my lawyers don't want to do because it costs too much money. My lawyers say there are no laws to defend me because the Canadian government signed away Canadians' rights in these awful treaties, and the treaties have been upheld by the Supreme Court. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) bought seeds off me on three or four occasions - so what? Buying seeds in Canada is no big deal.