Marc Emery, the leader of the Marijuana Party of B.C., has been released on $50,000 bail after being charged with distributing marijuana seeds to clients in the U.S.

Emery spent the weekend in a Halifax-area jail, before being transferred to Vancouver.

He was arrested Friday in Nova Scotia, where he had a speaking engagement at a rally for the use of medical marijuana.

His office and storefront on Vancouver's Hastings Street was raided by police Friday. Two others were arrested on request of U.S. authorities, who want all three of the individuals extradited.

They face American charges of conspiracy to manufacture marijuana, distribute seeds and engage in money laundering.

If Emery is extradited to the U.S. he could face a minimum sentence of 10 years in jail.

Also arrested was Michelle Rainey-Fenkarek, 34, financial agent for the party, and Gregory Keith Williams, 50, an employee of Pot-TV.

Emery, known as the "Prince of Pot", runs a mail-order website that distributes marijuana seeds to clients in a variety of countries, including the United States.

While selling marijuana seeds in Canada is also a criminal activity, no one has been prosecuted here for that in approximately a decade, says Emery's lawyer John Conroy.

As for the money-laundering charges, Conroy called them a "bit peculiar."

"I don't know what the basis for that offence is at the moment but presumably they will say the money he received was somehow concealed as being monies of seed sales,'' said Conroy.

Rainey-Fenkarek is out on $25,000 bail, but Williams is still in custody.