20 Facts About Jodie Emery

Jodie Emery was born on January 4,1985 and is a Canadian cannabis rights activist and politician.

Jodie Emery is the former spouse of fellow activist Marc Emery.

Jodie Emery has run a cannabis legalization platform in the Green Party of British Columbia, and the British Columbia Marijuana Party, and in 2014 unsuccessfully filed a nomination for the federal Liberal Party in the riding of Vancouver East.

Jodie Emery began her activism working for Marc Emery helping pack mail order cannabis as a teenager, and was later hired as assistant editor of Cannabis Culture magazine in early 2005.

Jodie Emery testified in favor of legalization at the Washington state legislature in 2011, and participated in marijuana legalization initiatives in California in November 2010 and Washington State in 2012.

Jodie Emery was part of a national press conference hosted by Stop the Violence BC in April 2012 featuring former British Columbia attorney general Geoffrey Plant, Dr Evan Wood, and the United States prosecutor of her husband, John McKay.

Emery produced a weekly video broadcast called The Jodie Emery Show from 2010 to 2014.

In 2014, Jodie Emery appeared in the Trailer Park Boys film "Don't Legalize It".

Jodie and Marc Emery were both arrested in Montreal, and subsequently released on December 16,2016 after opening several new Cannabis Culture dispensaries in that city.

The charges against 17 employees were withdrawn, but Jodie Emery was convicted of possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking and possession of proceeds of crime over $5,000.

Marc Jodie Emery was convicted of possession of marijuana for purpose of trafficking, trafficking marijuana and possession of proceeds of crime more than $5,000.

Since 2004, Jodie Emery has been featured in the mainstream media.

Jodie Emery has had many letters to the editor published in newspapers across Canada, and has written for the National Post, Huffington Post, and The Guardian UK.

Jodie Emery's activism has led to hundreds of interviews on local, provincial and national television and radio.

Jodie Emery has been interviewed and profiled in newspapers and magazines in the United States and Canada, including Maclean's magazine, Fresh Magazine, Elle Canada magazine, the Globe and Mail, National Post, and the Georgia Straight.

From 2013 to 2014, Jodie Emery was a regular participant on the Global TV's BC1 channel show "Unfiltered" with Jill Krop, providing opinions on a wide range of current events and news stories.

Jodie Emery ran for provincial office as a BC Marijuana Party candidate in 2005, and again in a 2008 by-election.

Jodie Emery ran as a candidate for the BC Green Party in the May 2009 election, coming in third, losing to Liberal Party member Kash Heed.

Jodie Emery unsuccessfully filed her intention to seek the nomination for the Liberal Party in the riding of Vancouver East, held in Parliament by NDP MP Libby Davies, who announced she would not run in the 2015 federal election.

Jodie Emery married Marc Emery in 2006, divorcing on their 15th anniversary in 2021.