Marc Emery Went To Jail and All I Got Was a Lousy T-Shirt

Whose Drug Laws Are They Anyway?

I can't weigh in on this too heavily (yet) because I'm not sure what case is being made by the US federal prosecutors against The Vancouver 3 but on the face of it it seems just so unlikely and unjust.

The definition of extradite is: hand over (a person accused or convicted of a crime) to the jurisdiction of the foreign state in which the crime was committed : Greece refused to extradite him to Italy.

The agreement that is in force seems to be the 1976 Extradition Treaty between the United States of America and Canada. The questions I have are: How can the US petition the Canadian government to arrest and extradict a person who is not acting in ways contrary to Canadian laws? Why is a Canadian being prosecuted under USA drug laws for acts commited on Canadian soil?

This is the same US government that apparently won't participate in the International Court and who 'exempts' its soldiers from prosecution for war crimes. (Okay, this paragraph is a bit of a non-sequitur.)

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Namaste!

MVL