Pot advocate Marc Emery was arrested Friday, July 29 in Halifax after his marijuana-seed shipping business on Hastings Street was shut down by police as part of a sweeping investigation instigated by U.S. authorities.

1. Call the Canadian Justice Minister regularly.
   
   
   Canada's Justice Minister is currently Robert Nicholson of the Conservative Party. It is largely his decision whether Canada will extradite Marc Emery.
   
   Please call each of these three phone numbers twice every week, and politely repeat your message every time. The goal is to keep these lines constantly tied up with calls and voice mails about Marc Emery, so that the Justice Department phones are ringing steadily about the Emery case every day for the next few months.
   
   When you call, always be very polite. Your goal is not to get into a debate with the secretary. Just say that you are calling because it would "shock your conscience" for Marc Emery to be extradited to the US for alleged marijuana seeds crimes committed on Canadian soil. Say that you believe that if Marc has broken the law in Canada, he should be tried in Canada, under Canadian laws.
   
   If they say you are calling the wrong number, ask what number you should call. But still call them again the next week regardless.
   
   No matter where you are in the world, please call all three of these phone numbers every week. We definitely need active, vocal support from Americans and also from the international community. If you have access to a fax machine then please also send a daily or weekly fax supporting Marc Emery to each of these fax numbers, and particularly the Department of Justice.
   
   The Honourable Robert Nicholson
   
   Department of Justice Office
   tel: (613) 992-4621
   fax: (613) 990-7255
   
   Ottawa Office
   tel: (613) 995-1547
   fax: (613) 992-7910
   
   Niagara Falls Office
   tel: (905) 353-9590
   fax: (905) 353-9588
   
   Fort Erie Office
   tel: (905) 871-9991
   fax: (905) 871-5046
   
   Emails are easily ignored, deleted, or filtered out as spam. Handwritten letters that are neatly, concisely composed and weekly phone calls and faxes are effective political pressure. When writing email or mail, ask for a response in writing.
   
   The Honourable Robert Douglas Nicholson
   Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada
   284 Wellington Street
   Ottawa, Ontario
   Canada K1A 0H8
   

   Marc during last summer`s legalization tour

    

2. Donate and buy

   This raid means the end of Marc Emery Marijuana Seeds, which was the pioneering business which Marc Emery used to fund activist efforts around the world. Marc, Michelle and Greg will all have huge legal bills, while at the same time losing their assets, income and livelihood.

   Money-losing projects like Pot-TV will need to be curtailed, political activities will be shut down, Cannabis Culture Magazine will struggle greatly, and all our staff will suffer layoffs and paycuts.

   Please make a donation or purchase with the BC Marijuana Party, and buy a subscription to Cannabis Culture magazine. Our store is still fully stocked with books, pipes, bongs, clothes and other cannabis products. The only thing we don't sell now is seeds! We need your business to survive, so please come down and pick up some new paraphernalia.

3. Write to Canadian media

   Please contact all of the following newspapers and magazines, with a new letter every week. Don't write a big long letter. Just write a short, snappy letter which offers your opinion on American efforts to extradite Marc Emery. Don't just send one mass email to all of these media at once. Instead send them each individually the same emailed letter. Write one letter every week, different letters but on the same topic, and send them to every one of these media outlets every week.

   A more complete list of Canadian media outlets can be found here.

   NEWSPAPERS

   National Post
   Globe & Mail
   Vancouver Sun
   Vancouver Province
   Victoria Times Colonist
   Vancouver Courier
   Burnaby Now
   Calgary Herald
   Calgary Sun
   Edmonton Journal
   Edmonton Sun
   Regina Leader-Post
   Guelph Mercury
   Hamilton Spectator
   Kamloops this week
   Kamloops Daily News
   Kelowna Capital News
   Kitchener-Waterloo Record
   Kingston Whig-Standard
   Langley Advance
   Langley Times
   Lethbridge Herald
   London Free Press
   Montreal Gazette
   Nanaimo News Bulletin
   North Shore News
   Ottawa Citizen
   Ottawa Sun
   The Saskatoon Star Phoenix
   Surrey Leader
   Surrey Now
   Toronto Star
   Toronto Sun
   Tri-city news
   Victoria News
   Whitehorse Star
   Winnipeg Free Press
   Winnipeg Sun
   Windsor Star

   MAGAZINES

   Maclean's Magazine
   Eye Magazine
   NOW Magazine
   Vancouver Magazine
   The Walrus

4. Contact your MP and MLA

   If you are in Canada, then contact both your MP and your MLA. Don't send them an email, make a phone call. Try to make an appointment for a personal visit. Also have every one of your friends and family members each make their own phone call as well. The more calls they receive the better.

   You are not seeking your MP and MLA to support the legalization of marijuana. Just say that you are calling because you want your elected representative to oppose the extradition of any Canadian to a foreign country when their actions are not considered a serious crime in Canada.

   Remind them that Emery is the leader of a legitimate political party, that the Canadian government has knowingly collected taxes from his US seed sales for a decade, and that Emery has operated openly without interference from Canadian police since 1998.

   Tell your MP and MLA that Canada should not be sending political activists to jail in foreign countries, especially when their actions are not even considered to be an "arrestable offence" in Canada.

   Your MP is your federal Member of Parliament. You can find your MP here.

   Your MLA is your Provincial Member of the Legislature. You can find your MLA online here:

   BC
   Alberta
   Saskatchewan
   Manitoba
   Ontario
   Quebec
   Newsfoundland
   Nova Scotia
   New Brunswick
   PEI

5. Rally in your community

   If you are in Canada, then try to put on a rally in your community to protest this incursion of the US Drug War into Canada. The focus of your rally should not be on the marijuana laws, but rather that Canadians within Canada are not subject to US law. The Canadian courts and people have decided that selling marijuana seeds is a trivial, non-arrestable offence.

   The Canadian government has steadily collected sizable taxes from Marc Emery's US seed sales for 10 years. If Emery has broken the law in Canada then he should be charged and tried here. If he has broken no laws in Canada then he should not be extradited to the US for a life sentence. Who will be next? Will US police start extraditing Canadians who perform gay marriages for visiting Americans?

   Try to put together a rally for Saturday, September 10, to coincide with the rally planned for Vancouver. If there is a US consulate office in your city then that is a good place to rally at. Otherwise find a park or other government building.

   Please contact us at the BC Marijuana Party to let us know what you are up to. Tell us if you have contacted your elected representatives, if are planning a rally, and what else you are doing to help preserve Canadian sovereignty and keep the US drug war out of Canada.

   Thank you for your help. Marc Emery has devoted his life to ending the drug war and ensuring that marijuana seeds are available to anyone who wants to grow this wondrous herb. Please follow his lead, become active, and help to end this vicious war.