Cannabis Culture publisher weds

There will be at least time for a nice, long honeymoon before the extradition hearing. Marc Emery, the publisher of Cannabis Culture magazine and indefatigable campaigner for legalization of pot, got married Sunday in Vancouver even though he may soon be shipped south to stand trial on drug charges. A story in Maclean's magazine quotes Jodie Emery, 21, his new bride saying: "I will support him no matter what happens in any situation. I'm just so happy right now to be married to him."

Emery, 48, heads the B.C. Marijuana Party and is currently charged with selling marijuana seeds to Americans through the mail, conspiracy to manufacture pot and conspiracy to engage in money laundering. Over 10 years, Emery happily claims to have sold about $15 million dollars worth of marijuana seeds in his store and over the internet.

He was arrested last July along with Michelle Rainey-Fenkarek and Greg Williams after police raided Emery's pot paraphernalia store in Vancouver following an 18-month investigation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

The happy couple met in 2004, when Emery spent 62 days in a Saskatoon jail (he's been in jail 21 times) for trafficking after passing a joint at a marijuana rally. They became close after she transcribed his blogs from jail, he said.

The wedding ceremony took place under a white tent in the city's Queen Elizabeth Park where about 100 guests sat in suits and dresses continually passing around joints. After the ceremony the bride, wearing a long, white strapless wedding dress, lit up what she called a "wedding doobie."The Emerys then shared their first joint as husband and wife, inhaling the smoke and then kissing each other.

Emery said he was upbeat and positive, even though his lawyer tells him he is about 98 per cent sure to be extradited to face charges in the U.S. A date for his extradition hearing will be set August 21.