(Marc Emery and his wife, Jodie, speak to journalists outside a Toronto court after being released on bail on Friday, March 10, 2017.) (Chris Young/CP)
Stephen Maher: The activist faces a huge fine and will be locked out of the legal weed business. The former cop is set to cash in.
December 15, 2017
In September 2011, Conservative MP and former OPP commissioner Julian Fantino stood in the House of Commons to urge MPs to vote for the Conservatives’ Safe Streets and Communities Act, which, among other things, increased mandatory minimum sentences for marijuana offences, including six months for possessing six plants.
“It is critically important to law enforcement officers if we want them to do the job that they are mandated to do,” he said. “It is critical to the courts and it is critical to society, especially to vulnerable people.”
At the time Fantino spoke those words, Marc Emery was living in the Medium Federal Correctional Institution in Yazoo County, Louisiana, doing five years for selling marijuana seeds through the mail, part of a decades-long crusade against the laws that made it illegal to grow and smoke marijuana.
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