Plans may be afoot to launch a new initiative drive to decriminalize marijuana in B.C., perhaps next year. With Prince of Pot Marc Emery due back in Canada around August 2014 after serving prison time in the U.S., this next one may fly high. “We’d already planned on travelling throughout British Columbia to meet all of our supporters when he gets home, so it would be a perfect tie-in to do the campaign,” Emery’s wife, Jodie Emery, told the Straight in a phone interview.

According to Ms. Emery, her husband will work with Dana Larsen, proponent of the ongoing initiative campaign. Larsen told the Straight in a phone interview that organizers have met the requirement of collecting the signatures of 10 percent of registered voters in “about a dozen” of B.C.’s 85 electoral districts. Signature sheets have to be returned to Elections B.C. on December 9.