cannabisnews.com: Medical Pot Need Wouldn't Protect Him in Oregon Medical Pot Need Wouldn't Protect Him in Oregon Posted by CN Staff on April 16, 2003 at 15:44:13 PT By The Canadian Press Source: Canadian Press Vancouver -- An Oregon official overseeing the state's medical marijuana program has told a refugee hearing that her program couldn't protect a pot user from U.S. drug laws. Mary Leverette testified by phone Wednesday for Immigration Canada in a refugee claim by Californian Steve Kubby. Leverette said if a medical user is found with more than one ounce of marijuana, he or she could be arrested and charged. Kubby, 56, says he needs far more than that to treat his rare adrenal cancer. One ounce would last him two days, Kubby claims. Without the pot Kubby says he could be facing a heart attack, stroke or kidney failure within 24 hours. Kubby claims he's being persecuted in the United States because of his medical pot use and is seeking permission to remain in Canada as a refugee. A parade of witnesses on his behalf testified that despite a California law sanctioning medical use of marijuana, pot users still face arrest and imprisonment because federal authorities don't recognize the state law and drug enforcement officers ignore it. Kubby has Health Canada permission to grow up to 59 marijuana plants. The hearing was to wrap up Thursday, with a decision on Kubby's claim expected by fall. Complete Title: Hearing Told California Man's Medical Pot Need Wouldn't Protect Him in Oregon Source: Canadian Press Published: Wednesday, April 16, 2003Copyright: 2003 The Canadian PressRelated Articles & Web Sites:Pot TV Newshttp://www.pot-tv.netThe Drug War Refugees http://freedomtoexhale.com/smk.htm Calif. Cops Reject State's Medical Pot Lawhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread15977.shtmlCalifornia Cops Reject Medical Pot Lawhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread15976.shtml Refugee Claimant Would Be Prosecutedhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread15931.shtml Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help Comment #8 posted by FoM on April 17, 2003 at 10:55:31 PT These Links Were in The Article! For more information on the campaign to amend UN drug treaties, visit -- http://www.antiprohibitionist.org or http://www.trebach.com [ Post Comment ] Comment #7 posted by FoM on April 17, 2003 at 10:53:24 PT Press Release On Legalizing Marijuana in Canada! Press Conference: Canadian Senator Outlines Step-by-Step Effort to Legalize Marijuana U.S. Newswire 16 Apr 13:17 http://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/qtr2_2003/0416-130.html [ Post Comment ] Comment #6 posted by druid on April 17, 2003 at 08:39:44 PT KUBBY REFUGEE HEARINGS COMPLETED, DECISION DUE THI FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, March 17, 2003CONTACT: Michele Kubby, 604-885-7651 (working media only, please)KUBBY REFUGEE HEARINGS COMPLETED, DECISION DUE THIS FALLVANCOUVER -- The testimony phase of the Kubby Refugee Hearings finished up Wednesday. The honorable P. Dauns, who is the presiding member of the Refugee Board and is adjudicating this matter, instructed both sides to present written arguments by July 30 and that a final decision would be coming down no sooner than mid-October.Immigration Minister counsel Mr. Starr introduced his two final witnesses, one from Oregon and another from Washington state, arguing that Mr. Kubby could return safely to these two states and still receive medical marijuana.Mary Leverette, who heads up the Oregon medical marijuana program and testified by phone, admitted under cross-examination that if a medical user is found with more than one ounce of marijuana, he or she could be arrested and charged. Michele Kubby pointed out to the hearing that one ounce would last Mr. Kubby only two days and without the pot her husband would be facing a heart attack, stroke or kidney failure within 24 hours.The final witness for Canada Immigration, Dan Sattenberg, the Chief of Staff for the Seattle District Attorney's Office, testified that their office made every attempt to honor the rights of medical marijuana patients. However, on cross, he admitted that patients are limited to an affirmative defense in Washington State and a 60-day supply. Mr. Sattenberg also admitted that no definition currently exists for how much a 60-day supply can allow and that anyone caught with the amount used by Mr. Kubby would probably be arrested and charged.When asked if Mr. Kubby would be subject to arrest by the DEA, Mr. Sattenberg revealed that in Washington State, the DEA has told him that they will not go after cases involving less than 500 plants or 50 pounds. Mrs. Kubby followed up this surprising admission by asking Mr. Sattenberg why the DEA was raiding and chopping down as few as 17 plants in Oregon, but ignoring under 500 plants in Washington. Mr. Sattenberg replied that those two states have different administrators who have the discretion to enforce the law as they deem best.A parade of witnesses, including a sitting judge and a co-author of Prop. 215 all spoke out on Mr. Kubby's behalf, testifying that despite a California law sanctioning medical use of marijuana, pot users still face arrest and imprisonment because federal authorities don't recognize the state law and state drug enforcement officers ignore it.Only one American has ever succeeded in winning refugee protection and that decision was later overturned on appeal. [ Post Comment ] Comment #5 posted by Lehder on April 16, 2003 at 20:13:07 PT global lobotomy with the destruction of the national library and the museum of antiquities, our rulers join with the most destructive barbarians of history. the crime outdoes even the burning of the library of alexandria by feuding roman generals. i see the same scene, in slow motion, here in the u.s. the books are locked away out of sight. the librarians are unhelpful - you must know the name and author of the book you want and wait 24 hours while it is retrieved from some dungeon. no browsing. but the cultural destruction of the u.s. will now quicken and become more overt. no one who complains will be heard. the internet too, will go. its current reprieve will be a short one, granted now only while those who contribute to its discussions incriminate and identify themselves to the barbarians. the destruction of lives will soon change to outright killings by the millions, tens of millions, to be followed by nuclear war. it all started with the markhovian drug war. [ Post Comment ] Comment #4 posted by mayan on April 16, 2003 at 18:29:53 PT malleus2 America is dead. The Constitution is dead. The flag is dead. I can barely type these words...every American that ever died serving this country died in vain because freedom is dead. Stand or fall...Tim Robbins' Anti-War Speech: http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0416-01.htmUS bans media from Iraqi protests: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2961.htmWar crimes case planned against U.S: http://www.nationalpost.com/world/story.html?id=ECE98D7D-B287-47A5-90FB-A76063AD1B4ESmuggling away liberty(Making the Patriot Act Permanent): http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/04/16/ED250260.DTLTHE VIDEO THAT PROVES 9-11 WAS NOT A SURPRISE: http://whatreallyhappened.com/schoolvideo.html [ Post Comment ] Comment #3 posted by malleus2 on April 16, 2003 at 17:24:42 PT Can someone explain something, please? We Americans ostensibly have a court system in which facts are supposed to be presented to the jury in order for them to make an educated decision.Yet, in every MMJ case I know of, the pertinent facts are never made available to the jury.But in Canada, their courts are willing to take depositions OVER THE BLOODY PHONE, from foreigners, in order to ascertain the truth.That says something most Americans don't want to hear: if you expect a dogged commitment to justice dispensed from the American system of jurisprudence, you should stop drinking the rotgut, it's making you delusional. [ Post Comment ] Comment #2 posted by afterburner on April 16, 2003 at 16:22:02 PT: Educating the Public One Mind at a Time. Steve Kubby, a cancer survivor, par excellence, is informing the US and Canadian people of the cruel folly of current medical cannabis laws. If the restrictions applied in even liberal states like Oregon would not have allowed him to live so long, then how many of their own residents have already died over the last 33 years of delay, waffle, and water-down. Stand for the truth and you will win your rights. Go where you go. Grow where you grow. ego destruction or ego transcendence, that is the question. [ Post Comment ] Comment #1 posted by i420 on April 16, 2003 at 16:13:51 PT DROP THE DIME THE GREEN PANTHERS ARE IN TOWN THE DRUNKS ARE GOIN DOWN WE AINT MADD WE ARE GETTIN EVEN. [ Post Comment ] Post Comment