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John McKay qui a poursuivi Marc Emery est en faveur de la légalisation du cannabis
Marc Emery’s prosecutor John McKay now calls for marijuana legalization

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Tuesday, October 30 2012
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POT TV - Marijuana legalization is on the ballot! Watch Election Night 2012 LIVE on Pot TV – starting at 4PM Pacific on November 6, 2012 – for coverage of the historic votes on recreational and medical marijuana legalization ballot initiatives in states across the USA.

Voters in Washington, Colorado, and Oregon will decide on recreational marijuana legalization initiatives, while those in Arkansas, Massachusetts, and Montana will vote on medical marijuana initiatives. Municipal referendums on lowest police priority and decriminalization will be held in several cities in Michigan, Missouri, and elsewhere.

Cannabis Culture and Pot TV publisher Jodie Emery and CC Editor Jeremiah Vandermeer will broadcast LIVE from New Approach Washington's Election Night HQ in Washington State to keep viewers informed of the results as they come in from across the country. Tune in for interviews and analysis from the Pot TV team.

Pot TV will also broadcast Election Night 2012 coverage by cannabis commentator Russ Belville, host of The Russ Belville Show, who will feature live video reporting from marijuana legalization campaign headquarters from across the USA.

Find out more about the initiatives:

Initiative 502 in Washington
http://www.newapproachwa.org

Amendment 64 in Colorado
http://www.regulatemarijuana.org

Measure 80 in Oregon
http://octa2012.org

Issue 5 in Arkansas
http://arcompassion.com

Question 3 in Massachusetts
http://www.compassionforpatients.com

IR-124 in Montana
http://www.patientsforreform.org

Watch the LIVE coverage starting at 4PM Pacific on November 6, 2012 on Pot TV.

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Marc Emery’s prosecutor John McKay now calls for marijuana legalization

By Steve Mertl

National Affairs Contributor

By Steve Mertl | Daily Brew – Thu, 19 Apr, 2012

It was an amazing sight. The U.S. prosecutor responsible for sending Canada's Prince of Pot, Marc Emery, to a federal penitentiary was sitting beside Emery's wife, Jodie.

Even more surprising, John McKay was there to advocate for the legalization of marijuana.

McKay, the top federal prosecutor in Washington state for five years and now a law professor, believes continuing to treat marijuana users as criminals has only enriched drug-trafficking gangs and fueled violence.

"As a person who is knowledgeable of the facts underlying our failure in marijuana prohibition, I am free now to speak out," McKay told a public forum in Vancouver, The Canadian Press reported.

After a long legal battle and a complex legal negotiation, cannibis-legalization advocate Marc Emery was extradited to the United States and jailed in 2010 for operating a cross-border marijuana-seed mail order business. He's serving a five-year term in a Mississippi federal prison.

McKay said he has no regrets for prosecuting Emery, which he said was his duty. Emery made a "tremendous mistake" by breaking the law to try and change it, he said.

"If that was Mr. Emery's purpose — to change policy — I think he chose the wrong path," he said, according to the Vancouver Sun. "We do share, I think, a belief that the underlying policies are wrong."

Criminal marijuana prohibition is "a complete failure," McKay said.

"The problem posed by the vast criminal marijuana black market is a threat to public safety both in the United States and Canada," he said. "It's time to rethink our criminalization and prohibition policy."

McKay's position bolsters the push in British Columbia to reform Canadian pot laws.

Four former B.C. attorneys general, several former mayors of Vancouver, along with senior police officers and public-health officials have recommended treating marijuana use as a health issue, like alcohol.

The Canadian Press said Jodie Emery welcomed McKay's support.

"I don't believe my husband should be in prison, I still miss him terribly," she said. "But I understand that this law, the prohibition of marijuana, forces police to continue to arrest people and put them in prison.

"When we get people who are on the frontlines, who saw the damage done, admit the policy needs to be changed, I think that's always a wonderful thing."

One of the arguments against decriminalizing pot in Canada is that it would damage relations with the United States. But McKay rejected that argument and pointed out things are changing south of the border.

Washington and Colorado have ballot initiatives in the November election asking voters if they agree to legalize possession of an ounce or less of pot for adult use, The Canadian Press reported.

McKay, a co-sponsor of the Washington initiative, said tax proceeds from pot sales in the state could reach $500 million, money that would be earmarked for education, treatment and enforcement to keep the drug out of the hands of minors.

Another 14 states are moving to decriminalize pot possession while 16 states and the District of Columbia already allow medical marijuana use.

But in Canada the government's position has, if anything, hardened.

Ottawa has toughened the law related to pot possession and sale, even though Prime Minister Stephen Harper conceded this week the war on drugs has failed.

"I think what everybody believes and agrees with, and to be frank myself, is that the current approach is not working, but it is not clear what we should do," he said at the Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Columbia, CBC News