{"id":21680,"date":"2014-08-13T03:27:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T19:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=21680"},"modified":"2014-08-13T03:27:11","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T19:27:11","slug":"prince-of-pot-marc-emery-to-return-to-canada-today-after-finishing-us-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/13\/prince-of-pot-marc-emery-to-return-to-canada-today-after-finishing-us-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Prince of Pot&#8217; Marc Emery to return to Canada today after finishing US sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_20085\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20085\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Marijuana.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20085\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Marijuana.jpg\" alt=\"Leaf of a Cannabis plant. Photo from United States Fish and Wildlife Service \/ Wikimedia Commons.\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Marijuana.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Marijuana-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Marijuana-1024x819.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20085\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leaf of a Cannabis plant. Photo from United States Fish and Wildlife Service \/ Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WINDSOR, Ontario &#8212; The country&#8217;s self-styled &#8220;Prince of Pot&#8221; is due to return to Canada today after finishing a U.S. sentence for selling marijuana seeds to customers across the border.<\/p>\n<p>Marc Emery is set to cross into Windsor from Detroit after serving a five-year sentence, and his wife, Jodie Emery, says she will be there awaiting his arrival.<\/p>\n<p>The 56-year-old Vancouver resident was extradited to Seattle in May 2010.<\/p>\n<p>He then pleaded guilty to selling marijuana seeds from Canada to American customers before serving his time in several American correction facilities.<\/p>\n<p>When he was first arrested almost a decade ago, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency heralded his seizure as a &#8220;significant blow&#8221; to the legalization movement.<\/p>\n<p>Jodie Emery says details are still be worked out for a 30-city cross-Canada marijuana advocacy tour and a visit to Europe for several speaking engagements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WINDSOR, Ontario &#8212; The country&#8217;s self-styled &#8220;Prince of Pot&#8221; is due to return to Canada today after finishing a U.S. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":20085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}