Marc Emery

Quick Facts

Full Name	Marc Emery
Occupation	Activist
Date Of Birth	Feb 13, 1958(1958-02-13)
Age	66
Birthplace	London
Country	Canada
Birth City	Ontario
Horoscope	Aquarius

Marc Emery Biography

Marc Emery is one of the most popular and richest Activist who was born on February 13, 1958 in London, Ontario, Canada. Marc Scott Emery, born February 13, 1958, is a Canadian politician, activist and entrepreneur in the cannabis rights field. Emery is often referred to as “the Prince of Pot”. He has been an active advocate for international cannabis policy reform and has been active in numerous Canadian political parties at both the provincial and federal levels. Emery was jailed multiple times for his activism in cannabis.

Emery left the Libertarians later and became an organizer in London for the libertarian Unparty. Later, the Freedom Party of Ontario was renamed the Freedom Party of Ontario. From 1984 to 1990, Emery was the Freedom Party’s action director. Emery, Freedom Party and the No Tax for Pan-Am Games Committee, founded by Emery and Metz, successfully fought against London’s bid for 1991 Pan American Games. They claimed that the city would suffer millions of dollars. In the 1987 provincial election, Emery ran for the Freedom Party as a candidate in Middlesex’s rural constituency. For a distant fifth place finish, he received 499 votes.

In 1991, Emery was convicted for selling copies of 2 Live Crew’s rap CD As Nasty As They Wanna Be which had been deemed obscene and banned in Ontario. He was given one year’s probation, but immediately after sentencing he began selling marijuana-related literature and High Times magazine, all in violation of Canadian law. Emery invited local police to his store to arrest him, but the police refused to charge him or interfere. He also sponsored visits from marijuana luminaries such as Ed Rosenthal, Steven Hager, Jack Herer and Paul Mavrides.

In late 1994, a court challenge sponsored by Emery convinced an Ontario judge to overturn the Canadian prohibition on marijuana and drug-related literature, making it legal for High Times magazine and marijuana grow books to be sold in Canada once more.

Emery ran unsuccessfully for Alderman in Ward 3 Hamilton, Ontario, in 1982 and 1985.

Marc Emery Net Worth

Marc Emery is one of the richest Activist from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Marc Emery 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

At 17 years old, Emery dropped out of high school to buy a used book shop in London, Ontario. He renamed it City Lights Bookshop. Emery owned the store for 17 year and sold it in 1992.

Emery was a New Democratic Party candidate in London East during the 1979 federal election. Emery was critical of slow police response times for robberies and advocated for private security officers to protect merchants as well as business owners. He launched a campaign to abolish the $35 per year annual levy tax on downtown improvements. He claimed that it favors a few elite. In the 1980 federal election, he ran for the Libertarian Party of Canada and finished fourth in London East.

In May 1987 during a strike by city workers, Emery paid for truck rentals and volunteers to do the jobs of the striking workers. This caused outrage, leading to the strikers threatening to dump garbage on Emery’s front lawn.

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Who is Marc Emery Dating?

According to our records, Marc Emery married to Jodie Joanna Giesz- Ramsay. As of December 1, 2023, Marc Emery’s is not dating anyone.

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On October 12, 1997, Marc Emery was featured on CNN Impact in an episode called “Canada Cannabis.” The announcer referred to Emery as the “Prince of Pot” and the label stuck.

Facts & Trivia

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The store was repeatedly raided through 1998 after its sale to the store manager. Her business licence was subsequently revoked by the city. In August 1998, Vancouver Mayor Philip Owen had told The New York Times that Hemp BC was “going to be toast by September.” Emery switched his walk-in marijuana seed business to mail-order only, and continued to publish Cannabis Culture magazine. In early 2000 he established Pot-TV, a marijuana-related video channel. From 1998 until his arrest in 2005, Emery paid provincial and federal taxes as a “marijuana seed vendor” totalling nearly $600,000.

Top Facts about Marc Emery

1. Marc Emery is a Canadian politician and cannabis activist.
2. He was born on February 13, 1958, in London, Ontario.
3. Emery founded the BC Marijuana Party in 2000.
4. He has been arrested multiple times for selling marijuana seeds.
5. In 2010, he was extradited to the US and served five years in prison.
6. Emery has written several books about cannabis legalization.
7. He ran for mayor of Vancouver in 1996 and received over 10% of the vote.
8. Emery has been referred to as the “Prince of Pot” by some media outlets.
9. He has advocated for the complete legalization of marijuana since the early 1990s.
10. Emery continues to be an active voice in the cannabis community today.

Where is Mark Emery now?

Emery, who has been living in Toronto , said he and his wife have been separated for more than a year and only lived together for two-and-a-half years since they were married in 2006. Emery served five years in a U.S. prison for selling marijuana seeds on the internet.

How old is Marc Emery?

64 years (February 13, 1958)

Is Marc Emery in jail?

Marc Emery, the Canadian marijuana legalization activist whose extradition to the United States for selling pot seeds outraged many in the cannabis community, has been returned to Canada today after serving more than four years of a five-year prison sentence.

Are Marc and Jodie Emery still married?

We are now separated for over a year but the truth is Jodie and I have lived only 2 1/2 years of the last nine together, I was in prison five years ( when she was heroic) and when I got out of prison, things had changed and there was no role for me at Cannabis Culture.

Where does Marc Emery live?

Emery moved to Vancouver, British Columbia in March 1994, and founded Hemp BC, a store selling cannabis-related paraphernalia.