Canadian man in jail in U.S. for selling mj seeds put in solitary [View all]

[RainDog]

http://blogs.vancouversun.com/2013/06/07/marc-emery-is-in-solitary-confinement/

Marc Emery, the self-styled "Prince of Pot," is serving time in a prison in Mississippi for selling marijuana seeds to Americans. He was sentenced to 5 years and currently has more than a year to serve on his sentence before he can return to Canada.

Marc has taught himself to play bass guitar since he was imprisoned, and has performed with a prison band in 13 concerts for the other inmates.

Marc writes a blog from prison, and in March he was able to get permission from the warden to have some photos taken of his band practicing in the music room.

“Now the prison has him in solitary confinement to investigate the photos of his band that the prison itself approved!” said Jodie Emery, Marc’s wife. Jodie lives in Vancouver and visits Marc every two weeks. “The investigation is to see if Marc had a cellphone to take the band photos. But the warden, guards, music and recreation administrators, they all know that Marc got official permission for those photos. Yet now they have put him, and his bandmates, into solitary while they ‘investigate’? These investigations can take weeks!”

Conditions in solitary confinement are not pleasant. Prisoners are kept inside their cell for 23 hours a day.

This is the drug war in action. A Canadian man is confined to a cell for 23 hours a day for selling seeds to an American. Obviously he is a threat to national security and such actions warrant imprisonment 'cause we're all about the freedoms in this nation.