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Canadian Activist, Marc Emery, Urges St. Lucia To Get Onboard With Marijuana Legislation

One of the six Cannabis Culture shops opened by Marc Emery in Montreal, Quebec, in December 2016, leading to his arrest. Photo by Exile on Ontario St from Montreal, Canada - Cannabis Culture Recreative Marijuana Shop in Montreal, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=54177719.

Canadian Activist, Marc Emery, Urges St. Lucia To Get Onboard With Marijuana Legislation

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, November 8, 2018 (CMC) — Canadian cannabis rights activist, Marc Emery, is urging St. Lucia to get on board with the legalization of the now-illegal herb or face the consequences in the tourism market from his country.

Canada recently legalized the use of marijuana for recreational and medicinal purposes, and Emery said Canadians are now free to carry the substance across their country.

He pointed out that Canadians are going to come to St. Lucia, where cannabis is illegal, and if they cannot find marijuana, easily and readily, they are going to bring their own from Canada, which might cause problems.

Canadian cannabis rights activist, Marc Emery.

Canadian cannabis rights activist, Marc Emery.

“This is going to cause situations at immigration and customs, which will have people putting on Twitter and Instagram and Facebook, ‘oh I was arrested at customs in St. Lucia and they took away my cannabis and give me a fine’,” Emery said. “This is going to be bad publicity.”

He stated that countries in the Caribbean that legalize marijuana will definitely reap benefits.

“You are going to have five to ten thousand Canadians, minimum, coming this winter, and they are not going to find cannabis and they are going to be frustrated and go to Jamaica,” Emery remarked.

“And so, everybody on these islands, has to realize that the people who establish this legal regime first, are going to get the tourists from Europe, from America, from Canada…”

He added that people from around the world have the expectation of finding cannabis, without difficulties, since it is being legalized in many countries.

Antigua and Barbuda, Jamaica and the Cayman Islands are three Caribbean countries that have so far decriminalized marijuana.


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