Canada's "Prince of Pot" To Serve Five Years

[Paddy]

Originally Posted by $5 footlong

How do I get my hands on some of those seeds?

Buy Mexican pot. It's got plenty of them.

[Brunhuber]

Editorial: Marc Emery is a boring narcissist

The ProvinceMay 27, 2009Comments (217)

Marc Emery should stop smoking so much marijuana. It appears to be making him paranoid with delusions of grandeur.
The man, affectionately dubbed by himself and others as the Prince of Pot, went to the media Tuesday to assert a claim that the City of Vancouver is out to get him.
According to Emery, his recent business-license applications were rejected for reasons that involve — and we're not making this up — the 2010 Olympics.
The Prince says the city denies this claim, but he knows otherwise.
"This is totally related to the Olympics," Emery said Tuesday. "They're just nervous to show the culture of what Vancouver is really like to the world." Oh, really.
There are aspects of this city our officials might not want the world to see but it's hard to believe anyone has given more than a second's concern to the image of Emery and his acolytes smoking a few fatties during a protest outside the Vancouver Art Gallery.
The homeless, the bad weather, the traffic, the obvious lack of dog parks ... now those are black eyes for the city. But Emery and his clowns puffing on some primo chronic, well, fact is, no one gives a damn.
Emery was convicted of drug trafficking in 2004. He insists he was merely passing a joint and that the city is using his criminal record as a way to block his business license applications.
On that point, he may have something.
Emery, who has been in and out of trouble with the law in Canada and the United States, is not the kind of businessman likely to seek the presidency of the Vancouver Board of Trade. Therefore, it is not outside the realm of possibility the city would look at legal ways to prevent the Prince from doing business here.
In turn, Emery can pursue his own course of action through the courts.
But this is not about the Olympics.
This is about a shameless, boring self-promoter with a criminal record and an exaggerated sense of self-importance.
Period.

[Brunhuber]

Marc Emery will serve time on pot charge



Marijuana activist to give up extradition fight to U.S. in exchange for guilty plea



By Cheryl Chan, The ProvinceJune 5, 2009Comments (78)






Marc Emery has reached a plea agreement with the U.S. District Attorney. He is dropping his battle against extradition and pleads guilty to one charge of drug distribution. Here he is interviewed with his wife Jodie at the Cannabis Cafe in Vancouver.

Photograph by: Gerry Kahrmann, The Province




Marc Emery, Canada's most well-known pot activist, will serve time in an American prison after giving up on a four-year extradition battle on three drug-related charges.
Emery, nicknamed The Prince of Pot, said he will plead guilty to one charge of conspiracy to manufacture marijuana as part of a plea bargain with the U.S. District Attorney's Office in Washington state.
"My lawyer has been convincing me for the last four years that extradition will be the final outcome," said Emery yesterday at Cannabis Cafe, his bustling West Hastings store.
Emery, 51, said lawyer Ian Donaldson told him he's never seen the Canadian government refuse an American extradition request.
"He said, 'If you fight this and you're extradited, you'll face three charges -- two of which have mandatory minimums of 10 years.'"
An extradition hearing scheduled this week in B.C. Supreme Court was adjourned.
The drug charges stem from a joint U.S-Canadian investigation into Emery's Vancouver-based mail-order business, which was busted in 2005 for selling marijuana seeds to U.S. customers.
Emery was also charged with conspiracy to distribute marijuana and conspiracy to engage in money laundering, but those charges will be dropped in exchange for the guilty plea, which will be lodged at a Seattle courthouse this summer.
The U.S. is expected to push for a six- to eight-year sentence, said Emery, who plans to ask for a term of zero to five years and a transfer to a Canadian prison -- a move the Americans don't oppose, he said.
Emery's two co-accused, Michelle Rainey and Gregory Williams, pleaded guilty last month to conspiracy to manufacture marijuana and are expected to receive a two-year probationary term to be served in Canada.
According to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, Emery -- who it considers to be among the world's top 50 drug traffickers -- has sold millions of cannabis seeds to the U.S., which made up 75 per cent of his customer base.
Emery, who has run unsuccessfully in municipal, provincial and federal politics over the years, said he's being made a political scapegoat, pointing out that there are over a dozen seed sellers in B.C. and over 100 in Canada who aren't wanted by U.S. authorities.
"Nobody else has been sought out for extradition or punishment . . . except me because I'm political, mouthy and arrogant about it. I'm hoping it makes Canadians upset that Americans can come by and pluck out one of their country's leading activists for political purposes."
Emery said he's resigned himself to the idea of jail.
"I'm prepared to take what comes," he said.
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Paddy tried, unfortunately in vain, to prevent Emery's extradition.

by Darren Davidson.
Paddy Roberts promises appeal of his case aimed at keeping Justice Department out of his private charge against pot seed seller Marc Emery

Provincial charges could keep the BC3 in Canada

A Winlaw man is vowing to continue his fight against Ottawa in a bid that could make or break the Bush administration's plans to extradite B.C. pot seed king Marc Emery to face charges in the U.S. Paddy Roberts says he and Nelson lawyer Don Skogstad will be appealing a B.C. Supreme Court judge's decision to dismiss a motion that would have barred the federal attorney general from taking control of a conspiracy case Roberts has launched against Emery and two co-accused.
The trio are facing extradition to the States on charges of conspiracy to launder money and distribute marijuana and marijuana seeds. Conviction on the charges would carry a sentence of at least 12 years.
Roberts called Justice Robert Crawford's ruling nonsense. The decision was made two weeks ago in Nelson. "The United States government got the decision they wanted," Roberts told the NDN. "There was nothing in statutory law that supported Justice Crawford's position. The Criminal Code of Canada does not allow the Attorney General of Canada to intervene in these proceedings."
Roberts and Skogstad are trying to keep the feds out of the case because of their expectation that Ottawa will try and stay the pair's proceedings against Emery, clearing the way for his extradition. International law states that a person can't be tried in one country if he or she is facing identical charges in another. The charges Roberts has brought before Emery and co-accused Michelle Rainey and Greg Williams are essentially the same as those the U.S. have pressed.


The chairman of the nationalist Bloc British Columbia party and a well-known watchdog of the RCMP and judicial system, Roberts admits that the ruling would have been appealed by either he or federal prosecutors, depending the Crawford's decision. His appeal will be filed with the B.C. Court of Appeal. In all likelihood, the final ruling on Roberts' fight to keep Ottawa out of the Emery case will be settled in the Supreme Court of Canada, a process that will take at least a couple of years, Roberts estimates. "And nobody's going anywhere until this is settled."
According to the Globe and Mail, the federal Department of Justice tried to dismiss the charge earlier this year, but Roberts filed a legal motion that argued a Criminal Code offence, such as conspiracy to violate the laws of another country, may only be prosecuted by provincial Crowns. The province has said it has no stand on the case.
In an oral ruling released on the eve of the long weekend the Globe noted, Crawford sided with the arguments put forward by the federal government. The judge found that since the alleged conspiracy is drug-related, the prosecution is within the jurisdiction of the federal Justice Department.
"It seems quite clear that it gives the United States government, through the agency of the federal Minister of Justice, approval to interfere in the administration of justice in B.C.," Roberts told the Globe. "Normally our courts are not supposed to render judgements based on political considerations," Roberts added. "It wouldn't have taken the judge more than half an hour to write a decision granting the prohibition, and that decision would have been unappealable. But that didn't happen."
The federal Justice Department in Vancouver has refused comment on the case.

[Dirty]

He put up a good fight

[Raker]

Couldn’t help but notice you’ve quieted down from posting under your Paddy name since my first posting. The truth will set you FREE!!! Not!!!

How’s that surveillance business ( Or as you say now an accountant that specializes in “Business Fraud” Now that’s a good one coming from you! Working for the same client as back home?


“In the earlier 2000"s, the US dollar was worth $1.60 Canadian. So that $3200 LA price yielded $5400 Canadian. The pot originally cost $2200 and the smugglers charged anywheres from $200 if you knew an east Indian trucker to $600 if you knew a helicopter pilot and people who would drive it all the way to LA through the fruit checks in Northern California. So the profit was between $2600 to $3000 a pound.

Now the dollar is more or less the same when they have to pay the people who run around exchanging small bits at the bank. So the same $3200 US yields about $3400 Canadian, with 600 for the transport now that most of the east Indian truckers have been shut down or killed for being thieves, and you have 3400-600-2200 for a $600 profit. Hardly worth it.

Its even less to the Seattle market. You'd lose money there.

BC Bud is mostly moving east. Probably some goes to the $4000 a pound wholesale market in Chicago and Eastern US. Mohawks take it over the border.” – Paddy

You never did anwer my question about you holding a helicopter pilots license. That’s OK - We all know the truth there don’t we…..



http://www.peepsplace.com/showthread.php?t=220661

I'm ashamed to be a Canadian, knowing the special treatment these thugs have gotten all these years, the massive global organised crime presence on these reserves, and the cowardice and lack of will from successive governments to do anything about it!

Truly disgusting, this un-equal treatment under the law for these mob lackeys! Corruption is alive and well in Quebec and Ottawa! – Brunhuber aka Paddy and brother
It's about the bullies who run the Mohawk reserves, and bring global organised crimes into the heart of the community! And to hell with those who are not on-side!

It's corruption, reaching into the highest levels of the provincial and federal governments! What other civilized country would negotiate with the thugs who burned the chief of police out! un-believable! – Brunhuber aka Paddy and brother

Say Hi to the Boy’s at the Hungry Wolf!!!

[homedog]

Another scared shitless ghost.

[Raker]

Originally Posted by homedog

Another scared shitless ghost.

I do not need to ghost. I am not here for this forum or any other forum in this business. I am here for this thread.



Reg flagged.... Only means one thing boys!

[Brunhuber]

Originally Posted by Raker

I do not need to ghost. I am not here for this forum or any other forum in this business. I am here for this thread.

Raker, aka XRipTown. And probably a few more ghosts!

Calvin's nephew! A sad-assed prick consumed with bitterness at having to

work for a living and blaming the Roberts brothers for the downfall of his

hero!

We may have put a couple of knots in the noose, Adrian, but Uncle Cal hung himself!

After a life-time of auto-erotic asphyxiation!

[Raker]

Originally Posted by Brunhuber

Raker, aka XRipTown. And probably a few more ghosts!

Calvin's nephew! A sad-assed prick consumed with bitterness at having to

work for a living and blaming the Roberts brothers for the downfall of his

hero!

Nice try Paddy.....

[Brunhuber]

Shouldn't you call yourself "Raper".

Because I heard you knocked up three under-age Ticans, and that would be statutory rape in Canada or the US.

Get a life, punk!

[sbrmgrwgrrxeog]

Originally Posted by Raker

Seems to me you have big mouths about the Mohawks!!! Working on both sides are you?... hay Paddy you wouldn't happen to have your helicopter license?

Things have stopped moving from BC to the USwest coast. The change in the US dollar value in Canada has screwed up the market. Canucks are paid in US dollars. A pound of AAA BC Bud sells for about $2200 in BC. When sold in lots of 10 pounds or more in Seattle, it gets anywhere from $2500 to $2700 an pound. The LA price for lots like that has been $3200 for years.

In the earlier 2000"s, the US dollar was worth $1.60 Canadian. So that $3200 LA price yielded $5400 Canadian. The pot originally cost $2200 and the smugglers charged anywheres from $200 if you knew an east Indian trucker to $600 if you knew a helicopter pilot and people who would drive it all the way to LA through the fruit checks in Northern California. So the profit was between $2600 to $3000 a pound.

Now the dollar is more or less the same when they have to pay the people who run around exchanging small bits at the bank. So the same $3200 US yields about $3400 Canadian, with 600 for the transport now that most of the east Indian truckers have been shut down or killed for being thieves, and you have 3400-600-2200 for a $600 profit. Hardly worth it.

Its even less to the Seattle market. You'd lose money there.

BC Bud is mostly moving east. Probably some goes to the $4000 a pound wholesale market in Chicago and Eastern US. Mohawks take it over the border.

Interesting to hear the prices down where you guys are. $500 an ounce. Wow. That is 8000 a pound. Shows why they will pay 3200 wholesale.... Paddy Roberts

Bump

[sbrmgrwgrrxeog]

If you are coming here for the first time, here are a few additionl links that might be of interest to you:

http://www.peepsplace.com/showthread.php?t=221941 Paddy and Brunhuber “Who is Paddy Roberts and Bill Roberts"

http://www.peepsplace.com/showthread.php?t=217095 Always make sure Brun and his pal Paddy aren't wearing wires
http://www.peepsplace.com/showthread.php?t=228676
The View From My Office Window (Paddy Roberts)
http://www.peepsplace.com/showthread.php?t=218066 Known Rat's List in the Online Community (Paddy Roberts)