Special Report by Richard Cowan
July 29, 2005

I am very sad to report that my friends Marc Emery,
Michelle Rainey, and Greg Williams (Marijuana Man) were arrested this morning in
a major international escalation of the war on cannabis. Marc was arrested in
Halifax, NS, and Michelle surrendered when the police came to her door with a
warrant. (Greg was arrested at the Hastings St. office.)

DEAland claims international jurisdiction over anyone it
accuses of growing cannabis anywhere in the world, so the Vancouver Police
collaborated with the DEA to raid the BC Marijuana Party Office and Bookstore
and the Pot-TV studios with a search warrant issued under Canada’s Mutual Legal
Assistance in Criminal Matters Act.
See

Documenting The Role of Politicized Canadian Police In Maintaining Cannabis
Prohibition. Canadian Narks Versus Canadian Freedom. Following the DEA Party
Line. The Battle for Canada

At a time when the US has lost control of its southern
border, and Mexico has become a major supplier of hard drugs, not just
marijuana, the Bush/Walters Administration can’t catch Osama, but they can get
their Canadian collaborators to lock up a young woman with Crohn’s Disease.
See

Mexico, the Drugwar and the US National Interest: Never Mind Iraq; We Need To
Pay Attention to What We Are Doing to Our Southern Neighbor.

Typically for the DEA, the raid and arrests took place
on a Friday before a (Canadian) holiday, which means that Michelle Rainey may be
deprived of cannabis for her serious Crohn’s Disease for three days, if we
cannot get her out this afternoon.

(Good news update: Michelle
Rainey was released on $25,000 bail at the last possible moment on Friday. Marc
and Greg will almost certainly have to remain in jail until next week. Now the
Battle for Canada really begins.)

The search warrant allowed for a search only on the
Hastings Street offices, but it claims that there would be evidence there that
Emery, et al., have conspired to grow cannabis and distribute seeds, and – of
course – launder money. I doubt if they found any evidence of such a
“conspiracy” there.

Of course, the next step for them would be to get the
“evidence” shipped to DEAland. To my knowledge, there
are no customer records at the store – or anywhere else, for that matter.

Apparently, DEAland and its local Quislings have used
undercover agents to make “controlled buys” of seeds, which by its nature
involves lying. The evidence obtained by lying was then presented to a Seattle
Grand Jury, which issued a sealed indictment last May. Presumably, this attack
has been planned for at least a year.

Earlier this year, Allen St. Pierre of NORML warned that
he had had two calls on the same day asking about international seed sales from
the type of ignorant reporters who the Drug Czar uses to push the party line.

That sort of thing indicates possible enemy action, but
there is not much that one can do to prepare for a terrorist attack when dealing
with fanatics who think that their ends justify any means. John Walters became
obsessed with Canada and has sought to use it to distract the DEAland media from
the problems in Mexico, Colombia, Afghanistan, etc.

Presumably, DEAland will now seek to extradite our
friends, which will quickly become a major strain on DEAland/Canadian relations.
Frankly, if these people were not my friends, I would be delighted by the
stupidity of this move. The weak Canadian government has tried to ignore the
cannabis issues, but this is going to change everything.

MarijuanaNews will run regular
updates over the next few days. Now is the time for everyone in the cannabis
community to rally to fight against this major escalation in the war on us.
Canadians should demand that their country stop collaborating with a country
that has clearly lost its moral compass.

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