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Steve Kubby And Drug Medical Use
Steve Kubby and his wife Michele have spent years of their lives lobbying to make marijuana legal for medical use. He has adrenal cancer. He will die from it at some point and he believes marijuana is the only thing keeping him alive.
He credits the use of marijuana for controlling his adrenaline levels and claims the drug is the only thing keeping death at bay. Kubby smokes the drug to alleviate symptoms of a rare cancer called pheochromocytoma, which causes the adrenal glands to produce massive amounts of adrenaline.
The Kubbys and their two daughters, Brook, 9, and Crystal, 6, lived in a rural community outside of Kamloops, in the southern B.C. Interior.
Kubby's supporters and family were on hand as he boarded a flight to California escorted by his American lawyer, who worried he could die without access to pot in jail. There was an emotional farewell Thursday at Vancouver International Airport as medical marijuana crusader Steve Kubby reluctantly returned to the United States to face a jail sentence.
Kubby said he was concerned about heading back to a place that doesn't understand his health medicinal need for pot.
"The thought of people having an open animosity towards me, people that want to harm me, that want to bury their mistakes, that's very distressing," he said.
Kubby, 58, and his wife Michele had been fighting to stay in Canada almost since they arrived from the United States in 2001.
Kubby attempted to claim Canadian refugee status on the basis of persecution, both for his political opinion and his medicinal use of pot.
In the final hours before Kubby was due to get on a plane, his Canadian lawyer, Kirk Tousaw, was petitioning a B.C. Supreme Court judge for an injunction to prevent the minister of immigration from removing the Kubby family from Canada.
Tousaw argued the Kubbys still have an appeal pending in the Federal Court of Canada but the argument was rejected.
"These folks are going to be removed from Canada before they have exhausted all their rights," he said. "What's the harm in allowing them to stay in Canada? They don't pose any danger."
He credits the use of marijuana for controlling his adrenaline levels and claims the drug is the only thing keeping death at bay. Kubby smokes the drug to alleviate symptoms of a rare cancer called pheochromocytoma, which causes the adrenal glands to produce massive amounts of adrenaline.
The Kubbys and their two daughters, Brook, 9, and Crystal, 6, lived in a rural community outside of Kamloops, in the southern B.C. Interior.
Kubby's supporters and family were on hand as he boarded a flight to California escorted by his American lawyer, who worried he could die without access to pot in jail. There was an emotional farewell Thursday at Vancouver International Airport as medical marijuana crusader Steve Kubby reluctantly returned to the United States to face a jail sentence.
Kubby said he was concerned about heading back to a place that doesn't understand his health medicinal need for pot.
"The thought of people having an open animosity towards me, people that want to harm me, that want to bury their mistakes, that's very distressing," he said.
Kubby, 58, and his wife Michele had been fighting to stay in Canada almost since they arrived from the United States in 2001.
Kubby attempted to claim Canadian refugee status on the basis of persecution, both for his political opinion and his medicinal use of pot.
In the final hours before Kubby was due to get on a plane, his Canadian lawyer, Kirk Tousaw, was petitioning a B.C. Supreme Court judge for an injunction to prevent the minister of immigration from removing the Kubby family from Canada.
Tousaw argued the Kubbys still have an appeal pending in the Federal Court of Canada but the argument was rejected.
"These folks are going to be removed from Canada before they have exhausted all their rights," he said. "What's the harm in allowing them to stay in Canada? They don't pose any danger."
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