Prince of Pot, in Solitary, Launches New Movement for Freedom, Obama Pardon

CANNABIS CULTURE: Prince of Pot, in Solitary, Launches New Movement for Freedom, Obama Pardon

'"I sold millions of seeds," Marc Emery told Seattle Weekly in 2007, "and sometimes made $2 million a year." U.S. Attorney Jenny Durkan essentially repeated those words last month as justification for pressing charges against the Canadian marijuana seed mogul, who sits in the Federal Detention Center in SeaTac (apparently in solitary for a telephone podcast), awaiting sentencing Sept. 10 to a plea-bargained 5-year term. Now there is a move afoot to free the Prince of Pot before he is sent off to prison.'