Citizen Marc

Catalogue Number: CMPG03
Producer: Capital Motion Picture Group Inc.
Producers: Larry, Roger Evan and Walden, Lianna
Directors: Larry, Roger Evan
Producing Agencies: Relevision
Subject: American History, Canadian History, Canadian Politics, Canadian Social Issues, Civics, Criminal Justice & Law, Documentary, Politics, Social Issues, Social Sciences
Language: English
Grade Level: Post Secondary, Adult
Country Of Origin: Canada
Copyright Year: 2014
Running Time: 94:22
A documentary about famed marijuana legalization activist, Marc Emery, the self-styled 'Prince of Pot'. In 2005 Emery was arrested by the U.S. DEA, charged with trafficking pot seeds over the Internet and convicted of international drug trafficking. A Canadian citizen, Emery was extradited to the U.S. to serve five years in federal prison. In Canada at that time, the penalty for selling marijuana seeds was a fine. But Emery's incarceration, this film suggests, does not constitute a simple miscarriage of justice. It rather fulfills Emery's complex, often narcissistic vision of himself as a fierce libertarian and quasi-biblical prophet whose destiny is to defeat government. Citizen Marc wittily questions what it means to be a citizen in a post-identity, post-equality North America.
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