EMERY SAYS OLYMPICS BEING USED AS AN EXCUSE TO OUST HIM

The "Prince of Pot" believes that Vancouver is using the upcoming
Olympics as a last-ditch effort to boot him out of town.

Marc Emery, outspoken pot activist and leader of the B.C. Marijuana
Party, has never needed a business licence for his various Hastings
Street stores because they operated under the umbrella of his political party.

With the Games approaching, however, he feels Vancouver police are
nagging city hall to turn up the heat and close the businesses: the
420 Convenience Store, the Cannabis Culture store and Cannabis
Culture magazine's administrative office.

"This is the last great chance for the Conservative government to get
rid of us," he said yesterday, adding that he has complied with every
government, health and safety order to date.