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Footage of Marc Emery at the Winnipeg Protest where He Was Arrested
The Summer of Legalization Smoke-Out Tour with Pot-TV
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12 min |
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10 Jul 2003 |
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Video Activists Neil McCarthy and Rob Marion sent in this excellent footage of Marc's Protest and Arrest at his Winnipeg stop-over of the Summer of Legalization Smoke-Out Tour. Pot-TV
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Re: Footage of Marc Emery at the Winnipeg Protest where He Was Arrested
voodoodol,
Thu Jul 10 13:18:23 2003
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Re: Footage of Marc Emery at the Winnipeg Protest where He Was Arrested
LoudStudios,
Thu Jul 10 11:18:14 2003
Here is the prohibitionist Winnipeg Free Press write up......
Remember, this is the writer that was pretending to be so nice and concerned to Chris Bours on the phone at the end.
MARIJUANA crusader Marc Emery got what he wanted yesterday -- a tour of the Public Safety Building. Police charged the Vancouver resident with possession of marijuana after he flagrantly smoked from a large marijuana pipe in front of the PSB.
"I want to be arrested. I'm expecting to be arrested," Emery, publisher of Cannabis Culture Magazine, told the crowd just before he smoked.
The Winnipeg spectacle came on the same day the federal government announced it will sell marijuana seeds and dried marijuana to sick patients who qualify under Ottawa's medical pot program.
The government acted on a legal deadline from a judge, who ruled Ottawa couldn't logically give sick people permission to use pot without also providing a legal source of supply. Health Canada is appealing the ruling.
Meanwhile, the self-proclaimed Prince of Pot came to Winnipeg on his nationwide Smoke-Out Tour to encourage the legalization of the plant in Canada. "To make my case, I have to get before a magistrate," he said. "I am here to demonstrate to the people of Manitoba that they are getting ripped off by their attorney general."
Because no magistrate was available to hear his case, he saw the inside of a jail cell until this morning.
"We talked about this, and we knew jail was a possibility," said Chris Buors, a Winnipegger who organized the local protest. "It's awfully extreme for having less than a gram.
"But he's seen jail cells in the past."
Emery had told the crowd it was his intention to legally represent himself.
At about 4:20 p.m., Emery and about 40 others wildly counted down the final 30 seconds before he lit the pipe emblazoned with a Vancouver Canucks logo. About a dozen others also lit up marijuana cigarettes.
A strong pungent odour wafted into the air, and several smokers coughed.
Two uniformed police officers, who'd warned Emery earlier that he'd be detained if he followed through with his promise to smoke marijuana, moved through the crowd of supporters and media to reach him and then escorted him into the Princess Avenue building.
"The (Controlled Drug and Substance Act) is in effect in Manitoba. It is federal legislation, and we are enforcing it until directed otherwise by the Crown's office," said Acting Duty Inspector Gary Simpson last night.
"He's from out of town, and he plans to continue breaking the law. We get indications like that, and for that reason we are opposing his release."
Immediately after Emery was taken into custody, about 12 officers came out of the PSB and casually moved toward the crowd. Buors informed supporters that police had given them five minutes to put out their joints and leave.
Only one man refused to comply. The Winnipegger, who is in a wheelchair and suffers from multiple sclerosis, was taken into the building but released about 30 minutes later.
The man, who was not identified, said he has a permit to possess marijuana for medicinal purposes, and police are verifying that information. Before being detained, Emery barked out his platform to supporters, telling them that as of May 16, an Ontario court decision effectively legalized possession in Ontario.
He said an Ontario Superior Court judge ruled that the federal government had failed in its obligation to change the law to allow for medical use of marijuana, and so the entire law was void.
"It's not illegal any more. You can possess marijuana anywhere you can have tomatoes or lettuce," he said.
If released, Emery is scheduled to light up in front of RCMP headquarters in Dauphin today as he continues his tour.
He began the trip in Toronto and is heading west this month before hitting the Maritimes in August.
jason.bell@freepress.mb.ca
please email this retard and tell him to have a better look around his surroundings when covering a story and to use his colourful verbs for the criminal police too.
As far as the people wildly counting down to 4:20....it wasn't 1/10 as wild as this reporter and his comrads were being trying to get this story.
There were several strong pungent odours wafting through the air....one woman had too much perfume on, one person had bad hygene, the entire city is filled with Malathion making people ill, the car that broke down and spilt antifreeze all over the road infront of everyone smelt bad and damaged the community a 1000 times more than Marc's 1/2 gram and there was the clear odour of bacon all around us. And this writer failed to mention that the people coughing were coughing before anyone was smoking...most of the attendies were sick people DUH! discuss this show in the CC forums >
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Heres the latest updated PRINCE OF POT TOUR schedule:
WINNIPEG JULY 9
DAUPHIN July 10
REGINA JULY 12
HALIFAX JULY 19
MONCTON JULY 21
CHARLOTTETOWN JULY 23
ST. JOHN'S NFLD - JULY 26
CALGARY AUG 9
EDMONTON AUGUST 10
SASKATOON AUG 11
PRINCE GEORGE, BC AUG . 12
KINGSTON - AUGUST 25
LONDON - AUG 26
HAMILTON - AUG 27
SUDBURY - AUG 28
br>Remaining dates & locations being considered. Any thoughts?
"I want to hold SMOKE-OUT's in front of Police Station Headquarters across Canada with YOU and fellow supporters. We need to draw crowds who are willing to be seen possessing marijuana and smoking it! We need all Canadians to know Marijuana is completely legal in Ontario and can be legal in your province if we assert ourselves! This is also our opening salvo in asserting to Parliament that LEGALIZATION is what we want, what Canada needs! I will be speaking at each Police Heaquarters and smoking marijuana. Will you come and join the Canadian Cannabis revolution? I am looking for local contacts to arrange a demonstration in the following communities in Canada. Dates would be between July 7 and September 30.
The first stop will be between July 7 - 14 - EXACT DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED - in
*** DAUPHIN, MANITOBA *** in support of SWEET HEMPTATIONS, the hemp store there which DAUPHIN (RCMP)POLICE raided on June 16
Other centres I want to DEMONSTRATE in include:
St. John's, Newfoundland
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Moncton, New Brunswick
Sumerside or Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island (they have that crazy cop in Summerside who is some mad prohibitionist so I lean toward Summerside)
Ottawa (after Parliament reconvenes)
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Calgary, Alberta
Prince George, British Columbia
Whitehorse, Yukon
Who's with me? "
Marc Emery
marc@cannabisculture.com
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