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05 Sep 2006
MARC EMERY GETS HIGH ON THE SEEDS OF ACTIVISM
by Debby Reis,
Wanna Get High?
When I walk into the small office below the BCMP store, Marc Emery is smoking some pot he received in the mail from a supporter out of a giant bong and asks if I want to get high. The experience has indeed begun.
The well-known marijuana activist believes that "a journalist should be telling people what it's like to do stuff they can't do." He comments that usually all that's seen about what it's like to do drugs is a list of side effects that rarely describes the sensations he asserts having. Rather, he points to increased physical sensations, the change in time perception, libidinous expressions, and how pot acts as a creative tool -- although he admits that when it comes to doing work that requires attention to detail, being high may not be the way to go. Nevertheless, working when high becomes easier as you get older -- at least in Emery's experience, but this comes from experience.
"The problem with a lot of young people is that they smoke pot first and maybe develop a discipline over time. I didn't smoke pot until I was 22," he says, which was well after Emery developed the discipline of work. At 17, Emery opened City Lights Bookstore in London, Ontario. His activism started shortly thereafter. He was put in jail for ignoring Ontario's ban on Sunday shopping hours and was convicted for selling 2 Live Crew's videos, which were deemed obscene, and took stands on other issues as well. But it is Emery's political activism concerning marijuana that has garnered him the nickname the Prince of Pot.
Perhaps it was his first experience with the so-called illicit drug that led him to put so much money and effort into legalising the substance while simultaneously putting himself at risk of arrest and persecution. During the winter solstice of 1980, Emery had just fallen in love with Sandra Chrysler. They were making out and he felt the need to make a move, but before he had the chance, she asked if he wanted to smoke a joint. They did and suddenly, everything was amazing. The moon, the silence of the night, the cold in his fingers - -- it was all sensational. Then he went down on her. "It was like gliding over the wings of manta rays. Her labia lips were huge, it seemed to me, and they had this beautiful viscous element to them. And I was just gliding over them and I thought, 'Wow, this is really great.'"
05 Sep 2006
MARC EMERY GETS HIGH ON THE SEEDS OF ACTIVISM
by Debby Reis,
Wanna Get High?
When I walk into the small office below the BCMP store, Marc Emery is smoking some pot he received in the mail from a supporter out of a giant bong and asks if I want to get high. The experience has indeed begun.
The well-known marijuana activist believes that "a journalist should be telling people what it's like to do stuff they can't do." He comments that usually all that's seen about what it's like to do drugs is a list of side effects that rarely describes the sensations he asserts having. Rather, he points to increased physical sensations, the change in time perception, libidinous expressions, and how pot acts as a creative tool -- although he admits that when it comes to doing work that requires attention to detail, being high may not be the way to go. Nevertheless, working when high becomes easier as you get older -- at least in Emery's experience, but this comes from experience.
"The problem with a lot of young people is that they smoke pot first and maybe develop a discipline over time. I didn't smoke pot until I was 22," he says, which was well after Emery developed the discipline of work. At 17, Emery opened City Lights Bookstore in London, Ontario. His activism started shortly thereafter. He was put in jail for ignoring Ontario's ban on Sunday shopping hours and was convicted for selling 2 Live Crew's videos, which were deemed obscene, and took stands on other issues as well. But it is Emery's political activism concerning marijuana that has garnered him the nickname the Prince of Pot.
Perhaps it was his first experience with the so-called illicit drug that led him to put so much money and effort into legalising the substance while simultaneously putting himself at risk of arrest and persecution. During the winter solstice of 1980, Emery had just fallen in love with Sandra Chrysler. They were making out and he felt the need to make a move, but before he had the chance, she asked if he wanted to smoke a joint. They did and suddenly, everything was amazing. The moon, the silence of the night, the cold in his fingers - -- it was all sensational. Then he went down on her. "It was like gliding over the wings of manta rays. Her labia lips were huge, it seemed to me, and they had this beautiful viscous element to them. And I was just gliding over them and I thought, 'Wow, this is really great.'"