I live a block away from Emery's store. There's a seed store still there that is doing exactly what Emery was doing (selling pot seeds to Americans) yet they haven't been busted. This is probably because it's owner didn't give a million dollars to NORML in the US to fight prohibition of Marijuana.

Emery also writes a federal prison blog, interesting insight into how foreign prisoners are treated in the US, like the time he spent at D.Ray Fed prison where it's entirely made up of foreigners. No racism/forced segregation based on skin color, no homogeneous gangs of all one ethnicity, they all live together in dorms without any of the problems he saw in other fed prisons like Seatac where some guy threatened him because he was playing dominos with a black inmate and that was "not allowed".

Very interesting. I was not aware that there are "foreigner only prisons". I wonder why they exist?

I haven't kept up on his blog writings much, as it's too depressing to be honest.

Which is a shame considering he is such a great writer.

Thankfully, he should be out soon and it doesn't sound like they have broken his spirit one bit.

> I was not aware that there are "foreigner only prisons". I wonder why they exist?

Probably to avoid the complaints from foreign embassies over mistreatment of their citizens.

Too bad we don't have a US embassy here in the US to complain about mistreatment of US citizens in US prisons.