New Film Tells Story Of Pot, Marc Emery, And Canadian Sovereignty

If it feels like a cliché to have films about pot at a film festival in Vancouver, so be it. Wilson, now 27, wanted his film to have its world premiere in Vancouver, because of what he calls the city's cannabis culture. "It's very visible," he says. "It's like being gay in San Francisco." Besides, he says, "Vancouver is the town [Emery] picked to do battle in. It's kind of the front line." Emery, 49, has been lobbying for the decriminalization of marijuana for years. He heads the B.C. Marijuana Party, runs a magazine called Cannabis Culture, has a website called pot-tv.net and operates a mail-order marijuana-seed distribution business. In 2005, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration asked Canada to extradite Emery and two of his employees to face drug-trafficking charges for sending seeds south of the border. Vancouver Police moved in and arrested him. And it was that fact - the co-operation of a Canadian police force with American anti-drug forces - that drew Wilson in. "Emery is a symptom of a much bigger issue, which is Canadian sovereignty," Wilson says. "Who's setting our priorities? Is it us or is it the Americans?" Full article: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070929.POT29/TPStory/TPEntertainment/Movies/

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