“Prince Of Pot” Pleads Guilty To…Manufacturing Pot

CNN:

A man known as Canada’s “prince of pot” pleaded guilty Monday in a deal with prosecutors that could send him to prison in the United States for five years.

Marijuana activist Marc Emery pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Seattle, Washington, to a single count of conspiracy to manufacture marijuana following an 18-month investigation into the seed-selling business Emery operated from his head shop in Vancouver, British Columbia.

So the guy who speaks publicly about marijuana, lives in Canada, and owns a head shop manufactures marijuana. If this isn’t the biggest “No, duh!” of the year, I can’t imagine what people will undertake an 18-month investigation for next. The anteater who is suspected of eating ants? The fish arrested under the suspicion of swimming?

An 18-month investigation to find out if the Prince of Pot is who he really says he is is a waste of time and detectives. People everywhere are getting away with crimes that might not be the most obvious thing ever.

Should marijuana be illegal? No. Should the prisons of America be overcrowded and low on funds and supplies because of marijuana-related crimes? No. But until these things are changed, Marc Emery is going to be preaching from inside a federal prison about how they should be. It’s just a waste of so many people’s efforts.