75 THINGS TO FREE MARC EMERY
Want to help get Marc Emery out of a prison sentence and end cannabis prohibition, but don't know what to do? Here is a list of 75 things you can do to help Marc get out of jail – ideas that can also be used to end the war on drugs!
The chart below includes 75 ways to help, with ratings on effectiveness, risk, and cost. 
Marc Emery is a marijuana activist currently imprisoned at North Fraser Pretrial Centre in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, while he awaits extradition to the United States. Marc is expected to serve a five-year sentence after being targeted by the US government for selling marijuana seeds over the Internet and using the money to fund activist organizations.
Go to www.NoExtradition.net for more information about Marc Emery
| Way To Help | Effectiveness | Risk | Cost |
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Make an appointment with your MP's office to speak to him or her for 15 minutes (Click here to find your MP) |
5-10 | 0 | $10 |
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Engage in civil disobedience, such as blocking a main road or chaining yourself to a bridge and throwing a huge banner over the side -- be sure to plan it all properly and safely, and have someone contact the media right before you do it (Click here for a website about civil disobedience) |
5-10 | 9 | 1-60 days in jail |
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Send letter to Minister of Justice (Click here to get the addresses at NoExtradition.net) |
3 | 0 | 52 cents |
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Phone office of Minister of Justice (Click here to get the phone numbers at NoExtradition.net) |
1 | 0 | $1 |
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Send email to Minister of Justice (Click here to get the email address at NoExtradition.net) |
1 | 0 | 0 |
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Wear Free Marc Emery button everyday (Click here to buy a button from the CC Store) |
3 | 1 | $2 |
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Wear Free Marc Emery shirt 3 days a week (Click here to buy a shirt from the CC Store) |
5 | 1 | $25 |
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Use Free Marc Emery stencil to spray paint on construction walls, poles, etc. (Click here for a website to order from, or make your own) |
4 | 3 | Possible Mischief fine $50-$200 |
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Give $100 to an active anti-prohibition politician |
4 | 0 | $25-$100 (tax credits lower actual costs) |
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Vote in the next federal election for Liberal, Bloc, NDP or Green |
4 | 0 | 0 |
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Get letter published in newspaper print edition (Click here to find contact information for your newspapers) |
1-2 | 0 | $0 |
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Put comment on online media story about Marc |
1 | 0 | $0 |
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Demonstrate with good sign in front of Rob Nicholson’s office (Click here to get the address from NoExtradition.net) |
3 | 0 | $25 for a good sign |
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Demonstrate at Marc's prison vigil (Click here to find a link to the prison vigil information and address)
**UPDATE** As of Nov.18th, 2009 Marc was released on bail and his prison vigil proudly taken down.
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3 | 0 | $0 |
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Demonstrate at your own MP'S constituency office chanting "This voter's Canada includes Marc Emery" or "Free Marc Emery" |
4 | 0 | $0 |
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Demonstrate with a good sign on Parliament Hill, Ottawa Ontario |
3 | 0 | $25 for a good sign |
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Call the Howard Stern radio show and say "Free Marc Emery Prince of Pot" Live on air (Click here for Howard Stern's website) |
6 | 0 | $10 long distance |
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Write a letter to Barack Obama requesting a pardon for Marc Emery (Click here for Obama's contact information at NoExtradition.net) |
1 | 0 | 52 cents |
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Run as candidate in next Canadian or US federal elections and make freeing Marc Emery part of your campaign |
2-6 | 1-2 | $500-$1000 or more |
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Get your favorite bands to wear free Marc Emery t-shirts |
1-4 | 0 | $25-$100 |
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Write and perform a song about Marc Emery and put it on YouTube (Click here for a list of songs about Marc Emery) |
1-5 | 0 | $0 |
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Paint Free Marc Emery on your nude or topless body and visit busy places |
1-5 | 3 | Up to $500 fine or arrest |
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Organize a rally at a main intersection or a DEA office in your hometown. (Click here for a list of Rally Tools and Click here for a "How To Protest" article) |
1-4 | 1 | $200 for signs and info handouts |
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Give out Free Marc Emery pamphlets to students at your High school, collage, or University (Click here for links to handouts at NoExtradition.net) |
3 | 1 | $50 for 250 post cards |
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Attach a Free Marc sign to the side or top of your car, truck or vehicle (Click here for links to signs at NoExtradition.net) |
3-5 | 1 | $100 |
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Attach a red sticker with white text that reads "the prosecution of Marc Emery" under the "STOP" on a stop sign, so it says "STOP the prosecution of Marc Emery" -- or "STOP the Drug War" |
2 | 1-3 | Possible mischief |
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Make a Free Marc Emery banner or large sign and bring it to a sporting event or concert (Click here for links to signs at NoExtradition.net) |
4 | 1 | $100-$200 |
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Give out 300 Free Marc Emery pamphlets at your next pot rally (Click here for links to handouts at NoExtradition.net) |
3 | 0 | $50 |
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Tattoo "Free Marc Emery" on your arm leg or somewhere it can be casually seen |
5 | 0 | $200 |
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Have a "Help Free Marc Emery" meeting with friends or activists and determine a course of action |
2 | 0 | $0 |
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Rent or obtain an auto-dialer to leave a Free Marc Emery phone message for tens of thousands of numbers in a local area (no long distance charges). Messages should invite recipient to visit FreeMarc.ca |
5 | 0 | $250-$1000 |
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Hire a local aviation company to have a Free Marc Emery banner flown over your city |
5 | 0 | $500 and up |
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Arrange for a media interview with Marc from prison (Contact Jodie@CannabisCulture.com for information) |
7 | 0 | $0 |
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Buy a Free Marc Emery ad on your local TV listings channel |
5 | 0 | $150 and up |
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Ask your teacher or professor in your politics, history or any other class to discuss Marc Emery and prohibition with the class. Offer to make a 5-20 minute presentation |
2 | 0 | 0 |
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Mail 100 Free Marc Emery postcards to Congressmen, members of Parliament, media organizations, Cabinet Ministers in Parliament or the White House |
3 | 0 | $50 for 250 post cards (no postage required) |
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Invite Jodie Emery to speak at a event you organize, and get media to attend (must provide Jodie's costs) |
2-4 | 0 | $100-$1000 |
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Arrange an interview with your local or familiar media for Jodie Emery to speak about Marc Emery and prohibition |
4 | 0 | 0 |
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Donate $25-$500 to Jodie Emery's Green Party campaign in Vancouver, as the ampaign will focus primarily on exposing the failed prohibition policies of the Conservative government and adopting Green Party policies (Stay tuned for website launch) |
5 | 0 | After tax credits for donation isn't as high |
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Stamp "Free Marc Emery" on currency |
3 | 2 - it's illegal | $25.50 for rubber stamp |
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Announce to police and media that you will hold a 2.5 gram marijuana bud, (wearing a Free Marc t-shirt) inviting arrest as a protest (Click here to read about Andrew Carroll's marijuana possession protest in New Hampshire) |
6 | 4 | $50-$500 fine |
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Write a guest editorial on "Why we must free Marc Emery" in a local or student newspaper |
2 | 0 | $0 |
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Write a Free Marc Emery note or bulletin and blast it to your Facebook or Myspace friends |
2 | 0 | $0 |
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Mention "Free Marc Emery" in your Twitter tweets |
1 | 0 | $0 |
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Contact the major media like John Stossel (Fox) CNN, 60 Minutes, New York Times, owners to cover Marc's situation |
2 | 0 | $0 |
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Establish a Free Marc Emery thread on blogs or social networks concerned with cannabis, law reform, libertarianism, green politics, progressive politics or anything else |
2 | 0 | 0 |
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Hand out Free Marc Emery leaflets to fellow travelers on buses, trains, ferries and other transit (Click here to get handouts from NoExtradition.net) |
2 | 0 | 0 |
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Stand outside rock concerts or sports events with Free Marc Emery signs and hand out pamphlets. Better yet, get 10 people to stand at different doors (Click here to get handouts and signs from NoExtradition.net) |
3 | 1 | $50-$100 |
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If you belong to a unique cultural or ethic group, write a pamplet in your native language and give it out at cultural events related to your ethnicity |
4 | 0 | $50-$200 |
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Hold a neat and ledgeable Free Marc Emery sign at the busiest intersection in your town or city for a few hours. Do it once a week. (Click here to get handouts from NoExtradition.net) |
3 | 0 | $0 |
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Ask your local hemp store or head shop what they are doing to support the Free Marc campaign. Suggest they carry the Free Marc Emery t-shirts, buttons, to sell and put up a poster up in the store |
3 | 0 | $50 for a good sign |
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Try and convince your political party leader to speak out on Marc's behalf |
2 | 0 | $0 |
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Have a Free Marc Emery pavilion or kiosk in a major park or square |
4 | 1 | $350 for signs and pavilion rentals |
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Design and organize a Free Marc Emery float for a parade |
5 | 0 | $500 |
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Make Free Marc Emery stickers and put them on everything |
3 | 1 | $100 |
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Contact famous cannabis and hemp users and activists on their websites and urge them to speak out on Marc Emery's behalf. (Rob Van Dam, Billie Joe Armstrong, Willy Nelson, Sean Paul, Tommy Chong, Daryl Hannah, etc.) |
2 | 0 | $0 |
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Contact major cannabis law reform advocates and urge them to officially state their support for the Free Marc Campaign. Law Enforcement Against Prohibition: www.leap.cc – Marijuana Policy Project: www.MMP.org – NORML: www.norml.org |
1 | 0 | $0 |
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If you live outside Canada, hold a "Free Marc Emery" sign and demonstrate in front of the US Embassy, US Consulate, Canadian Embassy or Canadian Consulate (Click here to get handouts and signs from NoExtradition.net) |
4 | 1-2 depending on country. | $50 for a good sign |
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Hold a sign and demonstrate in front of the ministry of Justice in Ottawa or the US attorney Generals office in Washington D.C. (Click here to get handouts and signs from NoExtradition.net) |
3 | 0 | $50 for a good sign |
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Set up your own Free Marc Emery information booth in your front yard |
0 | 0 | $0 |
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Wear a "Free Marc" t-shirt during the Vancouver 2010 Olympics for tourists and athletes to see. Try to get on TV or radio, as media will be everywhere. Display banners when you know TV is recording or broadcasting |
5 | 0 | $25 for shirt, $2 button, $50 sign, $150 for big banner |
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Play the "Prince of Pot" or "The Union" DVD to friends, family, fellow students, or work (Click here to get the DVDs from the CC Store) |
3 | 0 | $20 for DVD |
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Put a huge "Free Marc Emery" poster in the window of your house |
1 | 0 | $10-$50 |
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Donate $25-$100 to assist paying for Marc's 4 lawyers: US, Canadian prison transfer, personal and business, and Vancouver extradition lawyers (Click here to donate at the CC Store) |
5 | 0 | $25-$100 |
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Change your computer screensaver or desktop to "Free Marc Emery" |
1 | 0 | $0 |
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Circulate to your Facebook, Myspace, Twitter and YouTube friends, the videos about Marc's imprisonment (Click here for Jodie Emery's YouTube and Click here for Pot TV's YouTube) |
2 | 0 | $0 |
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Draw or paint a unique Free Marc Emery poster, stencil, bottom of your own design and send it to Jodie@cannabisculture.com and Jeremiah@cannabisculture.com |
2 | 0 | $25 |
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Go to CannabisCulture.com everyday to see the latest "Free Marc" news and redistribute new info to your social networking sites |
3 | 0 | $0 |
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Buy Free Marc shirts for your friends and family to wear (Click here to get shirts at the CC Store) |
2 | 0 | $75-$150 |
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Send Marc a letter in prison and include photocopies of letters you send on his behalf. Also include a photo of you wearing a Free Marc t-shirt, hoodie or button or at a Free Marc rally, demonstration, parade or vigil (Click here to get the mailing address at NoExtradition.net) |
2 | 0 | $3.00 for postage |
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Check FreeMarc.ca and find out if Marc needs a book that you could send him in jail from Amazon or Chapters. Be sure he has not already recieved the book you chose (Book list will be not be posted until Marc is imprisoned in the USA) |
2 | 0 | $15-$60 |
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Put a Free Marc flag on your car aerial or bicycle basket |
2 | 0 | $15 for a flag |
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Make a Free Marc Emery pumpkin for Halloween |
2 | 0 | $5-$10 |
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Make a video about Marc and upload it to YouTube and other video sharing sites |
0-9 | 0 | $0 and up |
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Replace your profile picture on Facebook, MySpace and other social networking sites with the "Free Marc" logo (Click here to get the logo from NoExtradition.net) |
2 | 0 | $0 |
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