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Marc Emery

Owner, www.emeryseeds.com

Marc Emery is the former owner of the Cannabis Café in Vancouver, British Columbia, a self-professed cannabis decriminalization activist and the bane of law enforcement on the Canadian west coast.

Emery founded HEMP BC, a small “grow shop,” in Vancouver in 1994. Since then, he has been arrested 10 times, raided four times and jailed eight times in his pursuit to legalize marijuana.

Emery drew international attention in January 1996 after his shop was raided for selling marijuana seeds alongside pipes and bongs. After the second raid, he was forced to sell the store and café, and went into online seed distribution. Emery, also know as Mr. Pot Millionaire, expects to earn Cdn$2.5 million this year as a result of his many pot-related ventures, including his website, www.emeryseeds.com, which sells 350 varieties of marijuana seeds; his magazine, Cannabis Culture; and his online network, Pot TV and Pot Radio.

He is the founder and president of the BC Marijuana Party, and has been featured by CNN, ABC, Rolling Stone, TIME, The Wall Street Journal, The National Post and The Globe and Mail.