The Prince of Pot
Culture, Health-Medical, Sociopolitical Documentary published by CBC broadcasted as part of CBC The Lens series in 2007 - English narration
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Canadian Marc Emery, Canada's most prominent marijuana legalization activist, is at the top of the U.S, Drug Enforcement Agency's 'Most Wanted List' and now faces extradition to the U.S. and possible life imprisonment. His crime - selling marijuana seeds over the Internet. An occupation he has never denied.
In fact for more than a decade he has dutifully filed his income tax returns in Canada stating his occupation as "marijuana seed seller". He paid his taxes and was left alone by the Canadian authorities. However Canada's RCMP suddenly and willingly co-operated when the DEA got him in their sights.
Widely known as "The Prince of Pot," Emery is the joint smoking publisher of Cannabis Culture Magazine, founder of the BC Marijuana Party and a lifelong rabble-rouser. And now, according to the DEA, one of the most wanted men in the drug world, up there with the heads of Columbian cocaine cartels, and the top drug trafficker in North America.
His story is the prism through which director, Nick Wilson, examines the touchy issue of sovereignty, the long reach of U.S. drug laws, and Canadian pot culture, while spending the summer embedded at the Emery defense headquarters.
Emery believes marijuana is a wonderful, healing drug and that current laws are unconstitutional, inhumane, and detrimental to society, far outweighing the damage done to people by the drug itself. No Canadian has ever gone to jail for selling seeds, and in 35 years only two people have been charged - the last got a $200 fine. Yet Emery faces 30 years to life in prison under U.S. drug
laws if he is extradited to face trail there.
THE PRINCE OF POT follows Emery through the summer and fall as he plots his defense, attends court hearings and tries to clear the names of his two friends who now face the same fate as him.
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* Source...............: NTSC CABLE
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* Duration.............: 44:00.998
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* Video Codec..........: XviD 1.2 SMP
* Codec DCT......: H263
* QPel...........: No
* GMC............: No
* Video Bitrate........: 2000 (ABR)
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* Hz...................: 48000
* Channels.............: Stereo
* Captured by..........: festering leper, released via Usenet. ed2k release by mischka.
Links
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1) Release Post
* mvgroup.org
* mvgroup.org
* Phantom.p2p.co.uk
2) Related Documentaries
* Hooked: Illegal Drugs and How they Got that Way
* The Meth Epidemic
* The Ice Age (Meth Addiction in Australia)
3) ed2k Links
ed2k: CBC.The.Lens.The.Prince.of.Pot.071023.XviD.mp3.festering.leper.avi [687.98 Mb]
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