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‘Prince of pot’ contracts superbug in prison

Marc Emery reportedly suffering from MRSA infection contracted in Mississippi facility

by macleans.ca on Monday, July 11, 2011 11:58am - 11 Comments

Vancouver’s self-proclaimed “prince of pot,” Marc Emery, has been infected by a superbug known as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), according to his wife Jodie. She says Emery, who is currently serving a five-year prison term in a Mississippi facility, was diagnosed with the condition a year ago, when a boil located above his buttock tested positive for MRSA. Emery is two years into his sentence for conspiracy to manufacture marijuana via a mail-order cannabis seed operation.

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http://www.facebook.com/people/Reg-Smith/100000839949201 Reg Smith

Mr. Emery should not even be in that Mississippi prison in the USA if our country were reasonable about pot. Didn’t our Royal Commission, many years ago, recommend that pot be decriminalised? When will there be a government in Canada that respects the Commission’s finding and effects change!? Why do pot smokers continue to be made out as villians and criminals when they are neither? Pot is benign – tobacco, alcohol and many prescription drugs are far, far worse, yet they are legal! Indeed, people who murder get off with less sentences, for Pete’s sake, than many pot smokers! Pot doesn’t deserve to be a criminal offence and Mr. Emory should never have been delivered into the hands of the fanatics in the USA running their asinine war on ‘drugs’…it’s cost taxpayers billions and yet it continues, whereas, legalisation would be a revenue source and take the pot business out of the hands of criminal organisations that profit from the growth and sale of pot. How long until officialdom gets their heads out of their keesters and smartens up?

Anonymous

Frankly I don’t care whether pot is legal or illegal, but I’m really tired of the dishonesty of the pro-legalization side of the argument. How can you say pot smokers smokers are not criminals when it is against the law and they have been convicted of a crime by a court of law in a free and democratic society. That is the very definition of a criminal. Saying Pot is benign is also a blatant lie inhaling carcinogens is not a benign act and cannabis has been correlated with the development of various mental disorders in multiple studies. The Time magazine and the CBC have ran articles on the link between pot and schizophrenia. As for revenue cigarettes are a large source of government revenue should we be encouraging more people to smoke to raise funds? If you want pot to be legal get enough like minded people together and vote to make it legal, I’d probably vote for legalization if pro-legalization people would just allow a open and honest debate.

Anonymous

What is carcinogenic in pot?
Anonymous

it is an unjust law that was never entertained any discussion or debate . . .hell, when it was criminalized all that was said was “There is a new drug in the schedule” . . .then it was tucked away for 14 years before it was first used. The Senate Report on Cannabis (2002) recommended legalization.
Anonymous

it is an unjust law that was never entertained any discussion or debate . . .hell, when it was criminalized all that was said was “There is a new drug in the schedule” . . .then it was tucked away for 14 years before it was first used. The Senate Report on Cannabis (2002) recommended legalization.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_T6MGQ7YVPRYXZO6N6UM467CCRU Steve Baker

Are they going to kill him?
Anonymous

There is an error in this post – my husband was diagnosed with MRSA just in the last month. He likely got it months ago from a brown recluse spider bite while in the private prison in Georgia; that wound was quite serious. He had a boil when he arrived in Mississippi in April, and that was tested. It takes time for results to come back, so he just learned the diagnosis recently.
Anonymous

There is an error in this post – my husband was diagnosed with MRSA just in the last month. He likely got it months ago from a brown recluse spider bite while in the private prison in Georgia; that wound was quite serious. He had a boil when he arrived in Mississippi in April, and that was tested. It takes time for results to come back, so he just learned the diagnosis recently.
Anonymous

Marc Emery should be returned to Canada on humanitarian grounds. Marc is a non violent, Canadian serving time for an offense which, in Canada, would have most likely would have garnered a fine. It serves no punitive purpose, whatsoever, to let a sick non-violent Canadian languish in the American prison system where he contracted MRSA. This is more so the case considering the non-capital nature of the offense.

Ottawa_Centrist

Very reasonable thinking. Like most aspects of marijuana prohibition however, reason doesn’t inform consideration.

Anonymous

Marc Emery should be returned to Canada on humanitarian grounds. Marc is a non violent, Canadian serving time for an offense which, in Canada, would have most likely would have garnered a fine. It serves no punitive purpose, whatsoever, to let a sick non-violent Canadian languish in the American prison system where he contracted MRSA. This is more so the case considering the non-capital nature of the offense.