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Police raid marijuana dispensaries across Canada

India Blooms News Service | | Mar 10, 2017, at 05:14 am

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Toronto, Mar 9 (!BNS): Canada wide raid by police on marijuana dispensaries belonging to Marc Emery and his wife Jodie resulted in their arrest at Pearson International Airport on Wednesday night as they were on their way to a pot festival in Europe, media release said.

The couple, owners of Cannabis Culture chain were held overnight at Toronto police's 51 Division following their arrests and were set to appear in court Thursday morning.

About a dozen marijuana shops in Canada under the Cannabis Culture banner are run by Emery and his wife.

Toronto police have told the B.C.-based lawyer, Kirk Tousaw that the couple had been charged with trafficking cannabis.

Emerys' Cannabis Culture location on West Hastings had been raided by Vancouver police at the request of Toronto police.

The tweets of Cannabis Culture confirmed that at least two Toronto locations were raided Thursday morning: Church Street and Queen Street East.

The court was filled with about a dozen of Emery supporters, advocates of medical marijuana and pot dispensary stakeholders. A manager of one of the Emerys' Toronto marijuana dispensaries was also at the courthouse Thursday morning.

Toronto police refused to make any comments to CBC Toronto about the arrests.

Marc had been in U.S. prison on charges of selling marijuana seeds in the United States and was released only in 2014 after spending just over four years behind bars.

A Facebook post by Marc Emery shortly after 7 p.m. Wednesday confirmed that the couple were heading to Spain for Spannabis, a marijuana festival.

(Reporting by Asha Bajaj)

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