DEA admitted as much when they issued a press release the day of his arrest acknowledging the hundreds of thousands of dollars he “channeled to marijuana legalization groups active in the United States and Canada.”

“Drug legalization lobbyists now have one less pot of money to rely on,” the release stated.

After negotiating a plea deal, Emery was extradited to the US by the Conservative government in May of 2010 and is now serving a 5-year sentence. He will attempt to return to Canada through the Treaty Transfer process, which allows Canadian offenders serving time abroad to serve their time at home and be closer to their families.

In another departure from Liberal Party policies of yesteryear, Harper’s Conservatives have refused to allow home a significant percentage of Canadian inmates servingwas a
Friday. We sat on the back porch of my girlfriend’s cousin’s house, looking out
at a yard that gradually filled with the raindrops that had been falling for
about an hour now, lifting the smell of wet grass and the heat of a Florida
summer. It was the first time I had been invited over; Heidi and I had been
dating for just a few months, but I was convinced that she was the one. Her
cousin was significantly older; a twenty-year-old-something man that had gotten
married to a girl he met in Massachusetts, and now they were beginning to build
a home. It was obvious that he saw his entire future with her. In her, it
wasn’t obvious at all.

As the rain continued to precipitate, the pitcher of sangria
came out, and everyone had a