Pubdate: Fri, 25 Mar 2005
Source: Calgary Herald (CN AB)
Copyright: 2005 Calgary Herald
Contact:  http://www.canada.com/calgary/calgaryherald/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/66
Author: CanWest News Service
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mjcn.htm (Cannabis - Canada)

POT ACTIVIST FIGHTS RETURN TO U.S.

The wife of medical marijuana activist Steve Kubby told Federal Court 
Justice Sandra Simpson that returning her husband to the U.S. to serve a 
prison term would be a death sentence.

Represented by his wife, Michele, Kubby was in court in Vancouver Thursday 
appealing a 2003 decision of the Immigration and Refugee Board that denied 
him and his family refugee status.

Kubby, 58, suffers from malignant pheochromocytoma, a rare adrenal cancer. 
"It's only because of cannabis I've survived," he said. His wife said he 
would be denied the marijuana he needs to live if returned to the U.S.
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