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Hear how expanded police power being asked for in the New Patriot Act II says marijuana users are terrorist.

By Steve Kubby, AMMA National Spokesperson

September 16, 2003

BRITISH COLUMBIA -- My updated Health Canada medical marijuana exemption card arrived yesterday. Here are my new cultivation limits:

117 plants (no limit on size of plants or grow space)

12 pounds maximum for storage

1.5 pounds possession (while traveling anywhere in Canada)

This is what my physicians and I believe is reasonable for me to have as an adequate supply for my condition. It's pretty much what we fought for back in California and 12 pounds is what the US governments sends their medical marijuana patients.

In contrast, California is about to pass a 6 plant, 1/2 pound limit that would be a death sentence for patients such as myself. A 1/2 pound might work for many patients, but a large number of patients are going to need 8-12 pounds per year to properly treat their condition.

Unless Governor Davis vetoes this bill, California's historic medical marijuana will be rendered useless and patients will suffer and die as a result. Furthermore, it will spark a flood of medical marijuana refugees, fleeing persecution, to come into Canada. That's unfair to Canada and disgraceful for California. All because of evil, kitten-eating reptiles who pretend to represent us and then barter away our rights to the police.

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Medical-marijuana activist Steve Kubby says his refugee claim has likely been bolstered by losing his drug case in California.

Kubby, now a Sechelt resident, lost an appeal of his felony possession of mescaline and a psychedelic mushroom.

Now, he says, he can successfully argue that being sent back to the U.S. would effectively be a death sentence.

"They will arrest me and kill me if I go back," he said yesterday. "The felony that stands is not even a crime in Canada. Now we can say, 'There's no relief.'"

Dr. Joseph Connors, a cancer specialist at the B.C. Cancer Agency, said Kubby suffers from a rare type of cancer with symptoms that Kubby keeps under control by smoking up to one ounce of marijuana a day.

Connors said that without the pot "there would be a real possibility that he could have a heart attack or a stroke or even possibly die. There are medicines, but he has found out that marijuana is more effective."

Kubby has government permission to possess up to 5.4 kilograms of pot, which he grows and stockpiles for himself.

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CONTACT: Michele Kubby, 604-885-7651 (working media only, please)

STATEMENT BY MICHELE KUBBY REGARDING THE CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT'S REFUSAL TO HEAR THEIR APPEAL

Yesterday, our family's decision to move to Canada was confirmed when the California Supreme Court refused to hear our appeal and the Sacramento Bee even reported, erroneously, that we had "fled" California and my husband is now a "fugitive."

The truth is that we had a judge's approval to move to Canada and the Canadian authorities have ruled that Steve entered lawfully and is not a "fugitive." In fact, Steve has been approved by the Canadian government to grow over 100 cannabis plants and possess up to 12 pounds of dried medical marijuana. He has even earned the respect and protection of local police who have publicly vowed to protect the Kubbys.

As you may know my husband Steven Wynn Kubby, our two daughters and I have applied for the protection of Canada as refugees from the United States, because Steve is a documented medical cannabis patient who is being targeted by local and federal authorities in the U.S, for political reasons.

(In fact, he would be in danger of death and/or permanent disability within days of being denied cannabis. The diagnosis of his medical condition by US specialists was confirmed by the leading specialist in British Columbia, Dr. Joseph Connors of the B.C. Cancer Agency, who was chosen by the Immigration Ministry to examine Steve.)

We have just completed our refugee hearings in which we represented ourselves and have just submitted the last of our written responses to Immigration Canada. We feel confident of a favorable outcome because of the facts brought out in the hearings regarding both Steve's medical condition and the gross violation of our rights by California law enforcement and the hostility of the US federal government.

Here are the salient points of our case:

1. When my husband was the Libertarian Party candidate for Governor of California, we were placed under investigation by a multi-state and federal task force for six months based only on an anonymous letter with no hard facts.

2. They even spied through our bedroom window, but no evidence was found during that six months to support any of the allegations. Nonetheless, the police raided our home anyway.

3. We were arrested, even though it was immediately obvious to the police after they entered our home that the allegations in the anonymous letter were not true. We were only growing medical cannabis for our own use in compliance with state law, and we were eventually acquitted of the charges used to justify the raid.

4. We were initially held on $100,000 bail each which the judge fortunately recognized as excessive.

5. Steve would have died had he been held just a day or so longer, and I contracted pneumonia because we were marched through the snow without proper clothing then locked in cold jail cells.

6. We were charged with crimes for which there was no evidence, and Steve was convicted of possession of chemicals that were not found in a raid that was authorized by a warrant that was fraudulently obtained.

7. The Attorney General of California, a political opponent whom my husband had embarrassed in a debate, then successfully appealed to get that conviction escalated to a felony.

A recent national Canadian poll by JMCK Polling showed, "A clear majority of Canadians across Canada (58.9%) and in every region of the country would prefer that the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board allow Steve Kubby to remain in Canada where he has legal access to medical marijuana." (We did not commission the poll, but we were delighted by it.)

Among Canadians age 18 to 44, support rises to over 63%, and among Canadians with University degrees support is over 66%. We think that even more Canadians will support our being given the protection of Canada, when they know the facts.

We earnestly hope and pray that you will report the truth about what was done to our entire family and help end this insane war against sick people.

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ATTACK ON PRISONS WAS UNFOUNDED

Robert Batey's attack on prisons ( "There's a prison industrial complex at work in Florida," Aug. 21 ) merely recycles discredited claims that prisons are government tools to hold down disenfranchised segments of our society. Of course, that is false. Citizens demanded safer neighborhoods, so elected officials adopted a tough-on-crime mentality that contributes to lower crime rates.

Batey believes the public-private prison system adds to out-of-control spending in Florida. The facts say otherwise. By utilizing innovative partnerships in corrections and treatment, Florida is actually spending less to house inmates.

In 1997, Florida's average daily expense to house an inmate was $50.51. By 2002, that cost declined to $48.13 a day. This saves nearly $869 each year per inmate or $66.6 million in annual savings for Florida's taxpayers.

So before Batey talks again about Florida's prison system, I suggest he descend from his ivory tower and meet the people who live in Miami, Tallahassee and other metropolitan areas. He might be surprised to learn that they are thankful the bad guys are in jail, making them safer.

ANDREW T. LEFEVRE,Executive director,Association of Private Correctional and Treatment Organizations, dtli@aol.com

I hear the terrorists who planned that attack are still at large...

what a way to convict someone who had there whole home torn apart by many intruders with no accountabilty of who came with what and left with out it.