“Canada’s ‘Prince of Pot’ Marc Emery has finally returned home after spending just over 4 ½ years in US federal prison for selling marijuana seeds over the Internet. Not only did the gregarious former libertarian bookseller relentlessly hassle Canadian and American drug warriors, he published Cannabis Culture, created the BC Marijuana Party and helped turn parts of downtown Vancouver’s Hasting Street into a Western Hemisphere Amsterdam, complete with a vaporizer lounge and several other cannabis-related enterprises. When he was arrested by Canadian police at the behest of US authorities, the DEA was quick to gloat that it had struck a blow against the forces of legalization.”
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2014/aug/25/marc_emery_interview