Vancouver 'Prince of Pot' activist's associates sentenced

[grace]

Two associates of Vancouver pot activist Marc Emery have been sentenced in a Seattle courtroom to two years' probation.

 

Thirty-eight-year-old Michelle Rainey and 54-year-old Gregory Williams pled guilty to charges stemming from a 2005 grand jury indictment.

 

According to the facts in her plea agreement, Rainey worked for Emery from 1998 to 2005 and helped him send marijuana seeds and growing instructions to mail order customers - mostly in the U.S.

 

Williams' plea agreement says he handled the phone orders and wire transfer information used for payment and also sold cannabis seeds at Emery's store, numerous times to an undercover agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Williams also says in his plea agreement that Emery made more than $3 million a year selling marijuana seeds.

 

The so-called Prince of Pot has been on a cross-Canada farewell tour as he prepares for a minimum five-year sentence in the U.S.

 

Author: Sam Leung

Date: 17 July 2009

Source: Canadian Press

http://www.eastottawa.ca/article-cp1724761...n-US-court.html

[jabez]

Damn they got of light, suppose its emery they want though.

 

Can’t believe emery sold himself out it goes against everything he apparently stood for. But what can you expect from someone that calls himself "the prince of pot", he took a good cause and made it about himself. Just like michael jackson there skilled at what they do and then become famous, then they go delusional and think that it gives them some kind of godly status!

 

Don’t mean to offend any emery fans out there, but he would have gone a lot further if he had of kept it about the sweet leaf and not turned it in to something that was about marc emery.

[Mull-a-matic]

Damn they got of light, suppose its emery they want though.

 

Can’t believe emery sold himself out it goes against everything he apparently stood for. But what can you expect from someone that calls himself "the prince of pot", he took a good cause and made it about himself. Just like michael jackson there skilled at what they do and then become famous, then they go delusional and think that it gives them some kind of godly status!

 

Don’t mean to offend any emery fans out there, but he would have gone a lot further if he had of kept it about the sweet leaf and not turned it in to something that was about marc emery.

Yeah, have to agree. I thought he was an ego driven ponce on a crusade to promote himself more than fighting the establishment.