Easing 1994 🇨🇦 Canada

A Canadian court ends the ban on marijuana literature

A court challenge sponsored by the activist Marc Emery persuaded an Ontario judge to overturn Canada's prohibition on marijuana and drug-related literature, so that High Times magazine and growing books could again be sold. Emery had moved to Vancouver that March and founded Hemp BC, a shop selling cannabis paraphernalia.^[1]

In the cultural atlas

People · Canadian cannabis activist and seed seller · born 1958Marc EmeryA Canadian bookseller turned seed merchant, called the Prince of Pot, who broke Canada's ban on cannabis literature, paid tax on his seed sales for seven years, and served four years in an American prison for them.

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References

Wikipedia — Marc Emery archived

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