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On July 10th, Marijuana.com released a story on a Canadian-raised journalist living in Zambia named David Julian Wightman.
Wightman and his brother Nicholas were taken into custody in the African nation after police raided their family home. David Wightman has been a vocal supporter of marijuana reform in the country and sources within Zambia say that he has been charged with drug trafficking, manufacturing, using psychotropic substances, and inciting members of the public to use narcotic drugs.
Legendary Canadian activist Marc Emery read Marijuana.com’s piece and was interested in offering support in order to secure a release from custody as soon as humanly possible.
“The difficulty with helping people in isolation [is that] I can’t communicate with him, I haven’t been able to speak to the family yet and I haven’t been able to contact his lawyer successfully,” said Emery in an interview with Marijuana.com. “The help I could offer would be to help cover his legal fees, or any fines he gets, or whatever it takes to get him out.”
Emery discussed some of the other challenges with going to prison in this African country. “There’s not a lot of…
