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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.