420 Girl - Jodie Emery

[420RedHead]

In the world of marijuana magazines and pot politics, the female cannabis flower is the epitome of desire and treasure. For female humans in the ganja world, however, the situation is more complex. This world until a few years ago was a naughty boys' club characterized by an adolescent, crass, sexist view of women. All that has changed in the last decade, as women worked their way into the forefront of marijuana advocacy, business and media like Assistant Editor of Cannabis Culture Magazine, Jodie Emery.

 

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These two incredibly strong women lead the crowd, the politicians, and activists. Jodie Emery, whose husband has been incarcerated for selling marijuana seeds, and the creator of Cannabis Culture Magazine, and Alison Myrden, a political cannabis activist as well as Canada's first medical marijuana patient.

 

[420RedHead]

Jodie Emery, pictured with Nicole Seguin, has emerged as cannabis' leading lady and when talking with her, you sense a lingering prowess of truth, which is not easily ignored. She says what she means and she means what she says, and while not everyone agrees, Jodie stands as a pillar to what you'll find if you get up and stand up for what you believe in. From her first encounter with cannabis to the state of the movement today, Mrs. Emery is here to keep it real. - Dope Magazine

 

[420RedHead]

Being the inheritor of the sixties' counterculture, of the sexual revolution and its giddy desire to shock, cannabis culture is strongly linked to sex. It uses all sorts of images of this kind in its desire to provoke, associating the cannabis high to erotic satisfaction as well as to beautiful and buxom women, ridding themselves of their clothes and prejudices to the smell of marijuana. Rather than as subjects, they are presented as objects of the smoking experience. These are, like everything, memories from the past, and they will without a doubt quickly disappear along with so many other old stereotypes. But for now, they are not very encouraging for many women. But we are at the dawn of a new era. With the unstoppable legalization and normalization of cannabis, these obstacles will tend to fall over one by one. From medical studies to social awareness, marijuana will find its legitimate place in the lives of women. And there won't be anyone to stop us. - Jodie Emery pictured

 

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Cannabisculture.org explains that the US Drug Enforcement Administration admitted on the day of Marc Emery's arrest that his investigation and extradition were politically motivated, designed to target the marijuana legalization efforts and organizations that Emery spearheaded and financed for over a decade. Incredibly, the DEA is under the impression that arresting Canadian Marc Emery was going to do something positive for the anti-marijuana regime. - Salem News

 

[420RedHead]

Jodie Emery ran for office in the May 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. Jodie knows drug prohibition is the cause of gang violence and murders plaguing Vancouver, and understands that more law enforcement and stiffer prison sentences only makes the problems worse as proven by a comprehensive study by Canadian researchers which concluded that "tough on crime" prohibition laws have no effect on drug supply and may boost rates of violence in the country.

 

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You can't talk international cannabis issues without mentioning the last name, Emery. As monuments to activism and martyrdom, Jodie and Marc are the prime example of a pot power couple with whom the U.S. government shouldn't have messed with, but wouldn't ignore.

 

[420RedHead]

Jodie Emery is feeling pretty positive these days. Her husband Marc, Canada's so called Prince of Pot, is home now after a five year jail stint in the United States. The Liberal Party of Canada, which is leading in public opinion polls, wants to legalize marijuana, something she and Marc have advocated for more than a decade. And two members of the Vancouver East Liberal riding association recently asked her to run for the party. Emery jumped in. She received her nomination papers over the weekend and is filling them out. Her website jodieemery.ca is up and already encouraging folks to join the Liberal Party of Canada. She is working on a Wikipedia page. And, as she told The Huffington Post Canada in a wide ranging interview, she really hopes Liberal members will pick her as their candidate and voters will send her to Ottawa. - The Huffington Post