Executed for pot?

[newleaf]

Should Mark Emery be extradited to the US, to be executed?

http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/4639.html

 

[Skaloop]

Should Mark Emery be extradited to the US, to be executed?

http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/4639.html

I answered yes because I think he should be extradicted. Mainly just because I think he's an idiot.

But as part of the Canada/US extradiciton treaty, Canada will not allow extradition if the death penalty is going to be used. So if he is extradicted, he will not get the death penalty.

 

[chalice_thunder]

I answered yes because I think he should be extradicted. Mainly just because I think he's an idiot.

But as part of the Canada/US extradiciton treaty, Canada will not allow extradition if the death penalty is going to be used. So if he is extradicted, he will not get the death penalty.

Score one for Canada!

 

[JadeTigress]

No, no, no, no, no. No.

They need to leave the man alone. He doesn't deserve any of this.

If they feel like they should punish him, whatever. Give him a fine or something, like he got before. But he doesn't deserve a long prison sentence, and even thinking about giving him the death penalty is ludicrous.

 

[Skaloop]

Score one for Canada!

One among many, in my opinion. Of course, I'm a bit biased; my family's been in "Canada" for over 300 years.

 

[chalice_thunder]

One among many, in my opinion. Of course, I'm a bit biased; my family's been in "Canada" for over 300 years.

I agree. I am an honourary Canuck - having gone to boarding school in BC for 7 years.

Canada rocks!

 

[DLaurier]

This is illegal,
The extraterratorial enforcement of ones own laws upon another country is ILLEGAL and IMMORAL.

Pot is decriminalized here. Legal for medical use, Allmost fully legalized for non medical use.

The DEA is a foreign agency with NO rights outside America.

Mark Emery has not violated any american laws on american soil, and cannot legaly, moraly, or ethicly be sent to america to be punished for his non-crime

 

[Eudaimonist]

Mark Emery has not violated any american laws on american soil, and cannot legaly, moraly, or ethicly be sent to america to be punished for his non-crime

I think this is a solid point.


eudaimonia,

Mark

 

[united4Peace]

The death penalty....
and he murdered whom?? No one!!

 

[Robbie_James_Francis]

No, he should not be extradited. He should not be fined, imprisoned or charged. He should absolutely not be executed, and the very suggestion is ludicrous beyond belief.

The DEA, on the other hand, needs to shut up, get a clue about what the real problems are and stop persecuting good, responsible citizens of their own country--and definitely of others--who, apart from the Draconian laws against marijuana, would be totally law-abiding.

What ruins lives? Responsible cannabis use? No, it does not. Ruining the lives of decent people for no good reason, locking them up and tarnishing their good names? Yes. The criminals here are the ones that are imposing idiotic, backwards, fascist laws, not those that are--quite rightly--excercising their right to do what they want with their own bodies. Much less those like Emery that have the courage to stand up to the ignorant, reactionary right and risk their freedom to change society for the better.

No victim, no crime. Simple as.

peace

 

[tocis]

Should Mark Emery be extradited to the US?

Unless there's a legal basis for that, no. And as far as I know, there is none.

 

[Adriac]

Well the charges mentioned — selling seeds (to Americans), conspiring to help Americans produce marijuana, and distributing money (obtained from those activities, to American organizations) — seem valid.

It seems to me more an indication of how broken the system is that this is legal, and moral if we are expected to be consistent.

Marijuana has no good reason to be illegal. This is very much addressing a symptom rather than the ailment.

 

[Skaloop]

I agree. I am an honourary Canuck - having gone to boarding school in BC for 7 years.

Canada rocks!

Hey, I went to boarding school up here, too! Which one did you go to?

 

[LittleNipper]

Should Mark Emery be extradited to the US, to be executed?

http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/4639.html

I look at it this way. If a country wants to keep criminals that are fleeing
justice, LET THEM. It saves us money and effort. Let that country take care of them.... It will save us a fortune. If however they finally decide to send them back, perhaps it would serve them right if we simply send them back......

 

[Skaloop]

I look at it this way. If a country wants to keep criminals that are fleeing
justice, LET THEM. It saves us money and effort. Let that country take care of them.... It will save us a fortune. If however they finally decide to send them back, perhaps it would serve them right if we simply send them back......

You guys already tried that with a teacher who also happened to be a statutory rapist (judge said he could go to jail or go to Canada. He chose Canada. We didn't allow him to enter).

The difference with Emery is that in Canada, he is not a criminal. He's a criminal in the States only. But he is a Canadian citizen and resides in Canada, so we would need a good reason to extradict him. If what he had done in the US was also a crime in Canada, he'd be sitting in one of your jails right now.

I don't much like Emery. I don't like his tactics, I don't like him, and I don't like how he hides behind the issue of marijuana rights to justify his acts. I'd have no real problem seeing him in jail. But Canadians are not about to forgo their values just because one of us offended the sensibilities of you lot. And if we don't extradict him, then he'll be free to continue taking money from America to Canada by selling our drugs to your people.

If he does get extradicted, it will be on politics alone or because the US goes into, surprise surprise, bully mode.

 

[Diane_Windsor]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Emery

 

[Cerberus~]

Who in the hell voted yes?

 

[chalice_thunder]

Hey, I went to boarding school up here, too! Which one did you go to?

SMUS - class of '78.
Vivat!!

 

[tvpro]

wow...this thread is the most stupid one i've yet to see.