Jodie Emery | |
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Emery with husband Marc at the Toronto Freedom Festival in 2010
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Born |
Kamloops, BC |
January 4, 1985
Residence | Vancouver, BC, Canada |
Nationality | Canadian |
Other names | Princess of Pot, Gothic Princess |
Occupation | Politician, activist |
Known for | Cannabis legalisation |
Political party |
Liberal Party of Canada, B.C. Green Party, B.C. Marijuana Party |
Jodie Emery (born January 4, 1985) is a Canadian cannabis activist and politician. She is the wife of fellow activist Marc Emery and they are co-owners of Cannabis Culture magazine, Pot TV, and the retail store Cannabis Culture Headquarters. She has run a cannabis legalisation platform in the Green Party of British Columbia, and the British Columbia Marijuana Party, and in 2014 unsuccessfully filed a nomination for the federal Liberal Party in the riding of Vancouver East.
Emery was born and raised in Kamloops, BC, and graduated from St. Michael's University School in Victoria, British Columbia. She moved to Vancouver in 2004. She and Marc Emery married on July 23, 2006.
As editor of Cannabis Culture magazine, she has been active in cannabis legalisation movements worldwide since 2004.
She began her activism working for Marc Emery and was hired as assistant editor of Cannabis Culture magazine in early 2005. Emery has spoken regularly at "4/20", "Cannabis Day" and Global Marijuana March rallies in Vancouver and Toronto, as well as other events in Canada and the United States, including Moses Znaimer's Idea City conference in June 2012 and 2014, the New Hampshire Liberty Forum in February 2012, Canadian University Press conference in 2010, Canadian Investors Conference in 2014, Boston Freedom Rally in 2012 and 2013, and the Burgundy Luncheon Club in 2011.