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They have also included Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau. Which is a problem for Jodie.

She’s a politician. She once ran as a provincial Green Party candidate in B.C.. She’s now a member of Mr. Trudeau’s Liberal party, and hopes to be his candidate in the riding of Vancouver East in the coming election. Vancouver East is NDP territory, long held by MP Libby Davies, who recently announced that she won’t seek re-election.

It’s hard to tell if Ms. Emery’s intentions are a lark, perhaps a publicity stunt to benefit her and her husband’s mini-business empire, or if she’s serious.

“What if some radical managed to get a position and ran for the party and caused a massive headache and caused them to lose the election?” she asked, during an interview this week inside her third floor office at 307 West Hastings. “Some people might say that would be me,” Ms. Emery added with a laugh. “I’m just joking.”

A large bong sat on a desk inside the office. On another desk lay a back-issue of Cannabis Culture magazine, which the Emerys used to publish. I picked up the magazine and a sprinkling of medium-grind marijuana slid from the front cover and fell onto the floor.

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Ms. Emery, 30, doesn’t like being called a one-issue candidate, but marijuana and marijuana legalization seem the most important things to her, after her husband. She smokes marijuana recreationally, she advocates for it, she wants it to be made accessible to every adult in Canada.

Two years ago, after Mr. Trudeau became Liberal leader and declared his party in favour of marijuana legalization, the Emerys decided they could endorse the Grits. Last year, a pair of Vancouver East riding executives asked Ms. Emery if she would put her name forward as the Liberal candidate. She thought it over for a couple of months and then decided she would do it.