Women’s History Month: Jodie Emery
In honor of Women’s History Month 2011, I’ve selected one woman to profile every day from March 1st - March 31st, 2011.
Jodie Emery: Marijuana activist, editor of Cannabis Culture, and BC Green Party director-at-large
Jodie Emery was the BC Green Party candidate for Vancouver-Fraserview in the May 12th, 2009 provincial election. She is the BC Green Party’s policing & crime critic, and was elected as a Director-At-Large at the 2010 BC Green Party Annual General Meeting. Married to the well-known Canadian activist and businessman Marc Emery, Jodie is committed to drug policy reform, protecting civil liberties, and advocating better, smaller government. She lives and works in downtown Vancouver and is the owner and director of a successful landmark retail store and magazine. Her husband is currently imprisoned in the United States after being extradited for selling seeds through the mail from Canada, which has been a substantial challenge for Jodie; however, she continues to remain engaged in activism, business, and politics, and is devoted to her husband’s repatriation to serve his sentence at home. Jodie is also the Green Party of Canada nominee in Vancouver-South for the next federal election. — Bio, BC Green Party
Links: Youtube
Twitter
Facebook fan page
Cannabis Culture posts
Green Party of British Columbia
California marijuana legalization hopes go up in smoke
Jodie Emery Condemns Conservative Spokesman Kory Teneycke for Prison Rape Comments
Green party siren Jodie Emery targets Wally Oppal the prohibitionist
B.C. cannibis [sic] crusader Jodie Emery invited to speak in Washington state on legalization bill: Wife of Prince of Pot Marc Emery, who is serving a five-year prison term in a U.S. federal penitentiary in Georgia
