Community | September 05, 2010 | 23 comments

Marc Emery Prosecutor Now Says Legalize Marijuana

source: http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2010/sep/05/marc_emery_prosecutor_now_says_l

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In a Seattle Times op-ed Saturday, former US Attorney for the Western District of Washington John McKay defected to the other side. As the federal prosecutor in Seattle, McKay oversaw the indictment and prosecution of Canadian marijuana seed seller and pot advocate Marc Emery, who now sits in an American federal detention facility awaiting the formal handing down of a five-year prison sentence later this year.

But while he thinks Emery and most pot-smokers are "idiots," McKay has come to see the futility of continuing to enforce marijuana prohibition. "As Emery's prosecutor and a former federal law-enforcement official, however, I'm not afraid to say out loud what most of my former colleagues know is true: Our marijuana policy is dangerous and wrong and should be changed through the legislative process to better protect the public safety," he wrote.

Marijuana prohibition "has utterly failed," McKay concluded. "The demand for marijuana in this country has for decades outpaced the ability of law enforcement to eliminate it," he declared, ready to throw in the towel.

http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2010/sep/05/marc_emery_prosecutor_now_says_l
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23 comments // Marc Emery Prosecutor Now Says Legalize Marijuana

  • SHAWN_RITTIMAN
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      SHAWN_RITTIMAN  

    • We the idiots, who pay his wages, appreciate his half hearted legalization statement. As for the ignorant people who always seem to have the lame stoner comments....just be glad you aren't in daily pain looking for alternatives to painkillers that really make you suffer more in the long run. Free Marc and free the weed!

    • 1 year ago
  • Toughth
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      Toughth  

    • I guess the average citizen in th U.S. justwants to go about their daily life in a stupor. I think I will try and find a place to just leave society behind. Makes more sense to talk to animals than wacked outburnt out drug users.

    • 1 year ago
  • hunzedog
  • covertops
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      covertops  
    • Toughth:

      huh?
      what stupor? you mean the one where i was on Zyprexa 3 yrs???? no MJ strain has ever put me in the stupor caused by anti pyschotics......
      Zyprexa, Depakote, Wellbutrin, Lamital, Enviga......cause an all around stupor. but whatever

    • 1 year ago
  • covertops
    • +2
      covertops  

    • wow.
      too bad he cant take back the prosecution against Emery.
      people can chang their minds about pot..... my DAD 30 yrs DEA is starting to come around.....i am a functioning memeber of society with Bipolar Disorder. he may not ever totally agree, but he doesnt see it Ruining my life

    • 1 year ago
  • Wolfspade
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      Wolfspade  
    • covertops:

      Thank you for your post. I too appreciate the help that I get from Herb. I am also a functioning bi-polarist. I am exploring the supplement Lithium Oratate, it is natural with no side effects. Take Care, and thanks for being open about your situation! Sincerely, Devon E. Binnings

    • 1 year ago
  • hunzedog
  • Conniepae
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      Conniepae  

    • "I'm not afraid to say it out loud"! If more people would find the courage to say it 'out loud', things would change. Most Americans know the marijuana (cannabis) prohibition 'has utterly failed'. Few have the courage to 'say it out loud'.

      I'm just 'one lonely voice', but if everyone who knows the cannabis prohibition 'has utterly failed', would also 'say it out loud' we could be a SCREAM!

      When the cannabis prohibition ends, hemp prohibition ends also. Ya know what that means? Jobs, jobs, jobs. Environmentally friendly jobs! Richard Nixon knew cannabis was not what he was saying it was. He spun disinformation for political gain. He left office in shame, but left his shameful prohibition policy behind and politicians have continued to use it for political gain. They should have been shamed for willfully spinning disinformation for political gain. They knew it then and they know it now! Cannabis prohibition 'has utterly failed'!

      It really is time for change! Yes we cannabis!

    • 1 year ago
  • PressCore
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      PressCore  
    • Conniepae:

      As the writer put it: " Humans will always do the right thing by all, and
      heed their conscience....but only after every other conceivable method
      they use to avoid it fails miserably " Human life on this earth must be a
      commedy made for the amusement of the Gods in the format of the Greek
      masks of commedy & trajedy. What else could we expect as the evolutionary
      descendants of chimps ?

    • 1 year ago
  • thetrimsmith
  • ThresholdBroken
  • Nephwrack
  • KSirys
  • NiceN
  • ezrierin
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      ezrierin  

    • Cool! Ding up for John McKay.
      If I had been the DA in the Marc Emery case, my duty as an officer of the court would have to be to uphold the law, regardless of my personal feelings. I would be legally obligated to be as vicious and aggressive within the preview of the law, as I could be. I do not know the details of the Marc Emery case, so I cannot comment on it beyond that. However, all things being equal, I have to wonder if this is John McKay’s way of making amends for all the people he had to send to jail on marijuana charges? Since his personal beliefs run contrary to the law, he has to be emotionally conflicted, or he would have no personal motivation to come out now. In other words, John McKay is just another emotionally wounded victim of the drug war. I think that we do not remember that even our soldiers (law enforcement and the like) in the Drug War are emotionally wounded and sometimes physically wounded and killed. End the Drug War, give our troops the peace they earned and deserve.
      Hey John, we love you. Thanks for coming out and telling it like it is.

    • 1 year ago
  • Conniepae
  • CalgarC
  • lifestudentno83
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