That's somewhat specious, but I agree wholeheartely that Mr. Emery shouldn't be extradited to the USA and be put in prison here. While I'm not naive or the anarchic equivalent of a toddler in demanding people can do whatever they want, I'm against all the wrongful parts of the Drug War (which includes not only the use of incarceration when it's not warranted, or at least constitutes an expensive misuse or overuse of scarce, expensive, dangerous facilities that should be re-examined as part of a set of reforms of our criminal justice system, but also the practice of civil asset forfeiture, i.e., property seizures, with inversion of presumption of guilt — you have to prove your money and other property are yours and to prove a negative, that they were not obtained through any involvement with illegal drugs, to get your things back). The federal-versus-state nature of the laws is another host of problems. As for marijuana itself, this is probably the one drug most deserving as well as likely someday of decriminalization. (It's naive at least to insist that all drugs of all kinds be treated the same.)

The drug czar’s Rx for prison fodder costs dearly, as life is flushed down expensive tubes. My shaman’s second opinion is that psychoactive plants are God’s gift. Behold, it’s all good. Canadian Marc Emery sold seeds that enable American farmers to outcompete cartels with superior local herb. He’s being extradited to prison, for doing what government can’t do, reduce U.S. demand for Mexican.

Only on the authority of a clause about interstate commerce does the CSA (Controlled Substances Act of 1970) reincarnate Al Capone, endanger homeland security, and throw good money after bad. Administration fiscal policy burns tax dollars to root out the number-one cash crop in the land, instead of taxing sales. America rejected the plague of prohibition, but it mutated. Apparently, SWAT teams don’t need no stinking amendment. Father, forgive those who make it their business to know not what they do.

Nixon passed the CSA on the assurance that the Schafer Commission would justify criminalizing his enemies, but it didn’t. No amendments can assure due process under an anti-science law without due process itself. Psychology hailed the breakthrough potential of LSD, until the CSA shut down research, and pronounced that marijuana has no medical use, period. Drug juries exclude bleeding hearts.

The RFRA (Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993) allows Native American Church members to eat peyote, which functions like LSD. Americans shouldn’t need a specific church membership or an act of Congress to obtain their birthright freedom of religion. John Doe’s free exercise of religious liberty may include entheogen sacraments to mediate communion with his maker.

Freedom of speech presupposes freedom of thought. The Constitution doesn’t enumerate any governmental power to embargo diverse states of mind. How and when did government usurp this power to coerce conformity? The Mayflower sailed to escape coerced conformity. Legislators who would limit cognitive liberty lack jurisdiction.

Common-law must hold that adults are the legal owners of their own bodies. The Founding Fathers undersigned that the right to the pursuit of happiness is inalienable. Socrates said to know your self. Mortal lawmakers should not presume to thwart the intelligent design that molecular keys unlock spiritual doors. Persons who appreciate their own free choice of path in life should tolerate seekers’ self-exploration.