B.C. pot activist says 60 Minutes segment will allow his real self to be seen

Simpatico ^ | March 2, 2006 | Camille Bains

[mugs99]

Take your meds and chill out!

[Irish_Thatcherite]

I think the stuff should be legalized.

[Migraine]

Go trim your ponytail.

[Nova]

That thought has not been approved by the DEA. You better be careful.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

LOL!!

[mugs99]

LOL!

[Migraine]

LOL!

[Nova]

When you compare the negative societal impact of the War On Drugs with that of marijuana use; it really is bizarre that pot is still illegal.

People would probably feel different if we were actually paying for the WOD instead of just charging it to some unknown future.

[Moonman62]

B.C. pot activist says 60 Minutes segment will allow his real self to be seen

I think he'd be better off otherwise.

[SandfleaCSC]

He looked pretty harmless to me. Our DEA agent on the other hand looked like a obsessed fanatic. The Canadian agents were laughing about what a waste it was to go after the "seed man".

[mugs99]

Our DEA agent on the other hand looked like a obsessed fanatic

He sure did! I think we should send the DEA man after Osama bin Ladin instead of the seed man.
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[TKDietz]

I don't know anything about the guy, but apparently he hasn't gotten rich. He supposedly sold $15,000,000 worth of seeds in a ten year period, so his company would have brought in $1.5 million a year. No doubt he had operating costs and he had to pay for the seeds he was selling, so that would reduce the $1.5 mil. average annual gross income. He also claims to have given most of his profits to the "cause," and lives in a simple apartment rather than some fancy house, and is apparently relying on donations for his legal fees. He obviously isn't just swimming in cash. Maybe he is more of a social activist than a businessman.

He is setting himself up as a martyr though, and he does seem to be claiming credit for a lot he didn't do. Clearly he thinks of himself as some great hero. Reading the transcript of the show on the CBS site all I could think is how easy it will be for prosecutors to nail this guy with all his on camera admissions. It's a given that he'll be found guilty, at least of selling less than a hundred pounds of marijuana ($15 mil. worth of seeds at an average of $10 per seed, with 100 seeds weighing about 2.5 grams - comes to eighty something pounds). The worse thing for him will be the sentencing phase of the trial where the judge will hear all this talk about how he is the marketing man for the BC Bud industry, he his plan was to "overgrow the government," and single handedly win the drug war against the DEA. I wouldn't be surprised to see him get the maximum possible sentences on his charges. I doubt he'll serve much time before all is over and said and done with, but he'll certainly probably get a lot of time on paper if and when he is extradited. The Canadians won't like it at all if he gets major prison time, especially if the feds succeed in convicting him of more than delivering the actual weight of the seeds. I think they are trying to get him for all the pot those seeds could have grown and are claiming no other Canadian has brought more marijuana into the U.S. Most Canadians already think our war on marijuana is ridiculous. If one of their own goes down for a long time on what looks like trumped up charges in the U.S. it will cause a big stink up there. In the long run the fallout might even help shorten our doomed war on marijuana in a 'round about way. It will be interesting to see what happens.

[subterfuge]

Much of the marijuana flowing out of Canada is traded for cocaine in the U.S., which has also caused massive problems for law enforcement, he said.

Couldn't quite get through the article without the inevitable linking of hard, nasty drugs to cannabis, as usual.

[davesdude]

Are these people obsessed, or what? It's almost like a religion.

they only have a belief other than yours...if you don't understand why they are doing this, don't critisize... i understand why it is almost like a religion, and believe their is nothing more peaceful than this "religion" as by consuming a plant they tend to get closer to nature (not all but a lot) and has a diferent approach to life in general, of course i am taking about the mature user, not the teens smoking it to get high...


what i don't understand neither is that he declared is revenue to revenue canada for the last 10 years stating : selling pot seeds...should we arrest the whole canadian government??? this guy was legal in canada, so what's the point in the extradition thing?? Is the DEA that much afraid of him?? You gotta understand the man if he's being un-american, he will be extradited for something legal in his country!! There is definitely something fishy about all this...