Arresting Developments In Vancouver Three Case Unusual Canadian Law May Block Extradition. Posted by*Richard Cowan on*2005-09-30 16:20:00 At the very least, this action puts the Canadian government, especially Justice Minister Irwin Cotler, in a no-win situation. Steve Tuck is filing an appeal of his departure order next week. We have discovered serious violations of Canadian law by the RCMP and the so-called Canadian Border Services Agency in collusion with the DEA. When Canadians find out the crimes being committed in their names, Tuck’s case will be a national scandal. http://www.marijuananews.com/news.php3?sid=853 The Banality of Evil – Canadian Style. Canada Rejects Steve Tuck’s Request for “Pre-Removal Risk Assessment” Adding Insult To Injury. We Will Appeal, Of Course. Posted by*Richard Cowan on*2005-09-21 16:20:00 Immigration Canada would accept only the opinion of a specialist of their own choosing. But they refused to appoint any such specialist! In other words, because they refused to appoint anyone, there is no acceptable Canadian medical opinion on Steve’s condition. And now they try to blame him for having “provided insufficient medical evidence.” There are none so blind as those who refuse even to look. http://www.marijuananews.com/news.php3?sid=852 Steve Tuck smokes pot to relieve chronic spinal pain stemming from an accident that befell the former* Army paratrooper during a military exercise.* He fled to Canada from California after receiving a tip that drug agents were bearing down on him and his "grow-ops" in Humboldt County. (Al Seib / LAT) The Drug War Refugees Eric Bailey, Times Staff Writer Published: February 2, 2003 Cancer patient Steve Kubby and other California medpot practicianers are begging Canada for asylum, claiming U.S. drug warriors are out of control. Maybe they're high, but maybe they're right. http://www.cannabis.net/articles/drugwar-refugees.html http://www.freedomtoexhale.com/smk.htm Steve Kubby and Steve Tuck in Custody April 16, 2002 By Dana Larsen* Source: Cannabis Culture* Pot TV News anchor Steve Kubby: in custody! American med-pot refugees Steve Kubby and Steve Tuck are currently being held by Canadian immigration officials after the pair were picked up earlier today. Kubby, the 54 year old founder of the American Medical Marijuana Association and host of the Pot-TV news with his wife Michele, suffers from adrenal cancer which he keeps in remission thorugh the use of cannabis. Kubby has recently been subject to a great deal of media attention, with articles in the local Coast Reporter newspaper, the Vancouver Sun and Province newspapers, CBC TV and a recent interview with Fox National News. Tuck, a Gulf War vet who suffers from severe spinal injuries and uses cannabis to control pain and muscle spasms, has http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/12/thread12546.shtml http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/2380.html Related Articles & Web Sites Pot-TV * The Kubby Files American Medical Marijuana Association Pot Advocates Flee To Freer Life Nothing Easy About Life In Exile Nations' Drug Policies on Collision Course Asylum in Canada Could Be Sought in Pot Case Canadian police raid US med-pot refugees Steve Kubby, Steve Tuck and Ken Hayes all seek refugee status. American med-pot refugees Steve Kubby, Steve Tuck and Ken Hayes were all arrested on April 16, 2002, for a variety of med-pot cultivation offenses. Steve Kubby's wife, Michelle, was also arrested on charges of cultivation and possession for the purpose of trafficking. All of them are American citizens who have emigrated to Canada due to persecution by US authorities over their med-pot activities and beliefs. Steve Tuck: being in the media gets him busted Steve Kubby released on bail Jail stay could have been fatal The Steven Tuck Defense Fund. He Must Be Not Abandoned By This Movement, Or The Movement Is Morally Bankrupt. 2002-11-01 15:25:56 Source: marijuananews.com Confusion Over Medical Cannabis in Canada Reflected in Immigration Hearings. Defense Fund For Steve Tuck to Be Organized. Special to MarijuanaNews There are over 2,000 cannabis arrests every day in DEAland, and recently the predators who run the Bush narco-terrorist regime have escalated their attacks on the sick, dying and disabled, and those who have tried to help them. http://www.marijuananews.com/news.php3?sid=588 Steve Tuck Smokes Hash with John Walters As Czar Visits Bulletin: Steve Kubby and Steve Tuck Taken Into Custody By RCMP ... Defense Fund For Steve Tuck to Be Organized. Special to MarijuanaNews ... Kubby and Tuck Allowed to Appeal Denial of Refugee Status Canadian Law Enforcement Violates The Law With Multiple Attacks On Tuck. Hayes Simply “Takes Leave.” Report From Michele Kubby From Hope on April 16, 2002 Sechelt, BC. At 930 am PST, Canadian immigration, along with RCMP officers showed up at the Kubby and Tuck residences to take both men into custody. Michele Kubby and Lucy Tuck remain free. The Kubby and Tuck immigration attorney has informed us that both men must have a hearing within 48 hrs. The hearing likely will take place in Vancouver. Both men could potentially be held overnight. These raids seem to have started because of the recent media attention on Canadian national TV, local papers, and FOX TV news. The seriousness of the situation has to do with Steve Kubby. Because Steve Tuck uses approved medications, he was able to take his medications with him. Steve K. is again in a life and death situation while in custody. The officers would not allow him to take any medicine with him, nor would they allow him to medicate before he left. We have potentially only hours to save him. What worked before was massive intervention. We need your help. Steve's life is on the line. The officers who arrested Steve K. are Cst. Rick LeBeuf 604-885-2266 Immigration agent Albert Stritzl 640-666-8769 Please call and tell these people that Steve is in serious danger, and that he is not a flight risk and will show up for his appearance, (he showed up for all of the appearances in California). Thank you for your support. We had hoped that all of this was over, but it is not. As Benjamin Franklin said, "We must hang together, or we will surely hang separately." (I hope that is accurate!) Please forgive double e-mails, these are Steve's lists. In hope and compassion, Michele Call the Canadian Embassy 202-682-1740
Medical Pot Advocates Arrested Medical Marijuana Crusaders Arrested Kubby and Tuck in Custody STEVE TUCK AND STEVE KUBBY IN DANGER!!! posted by idbsne1 on April 17, 2002 I just got off the phone with Lucy... Steve Tuck, which I mentioned had taken his morphine from the house, IS NOT BEING ALLOWED TO TAKE HIS MORPHINE!!!!!!! He has been in withdrawal and is sick as hell....Lucy is sooo worried he will not make it....she just had gotten off the phone with Steve....he says they are treating them like shit....they are sicker than hell and they are sleeping on cold concrete floors.....he vomiting like crazy and they just stand there not giving them medicine.... STEVE HAS A PRESCRIPTION FROM A CANADIAN DOCTOR AND THEY ARE STILL DENYING HIM THE MORPHINE!!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?! Steve's doctor has said he will die without morphine and MJ, and the Canadian Immigration is denying him ANY medication!!!!!! SO now neither of them have any medicine of any kind!!!! THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!?!?!?!?!?!?! Lucy says that they want to ship him back to the US....where the US MArshall's will get the Humboldt Sheriff on the phone and Steve will die in jail...the Sheriff even said so.... I don't know what to do...can anyone and everyone PLEASE spread the word or anything... even if you have NOTHING to do with this... just if you are disgusted at inhumane treatment....unreal...... ANYONE IN VANCOUVER? Please make it to protest...please.... Lucy can be reached at 604-740-5755...Michelle's is on another post..... These guys are terminally ill....and they let them suffer. God, please help them.... idbsne1 Important Update! posted by FoM on April 17, 2002 From: "renee boje" US Medical Marijuana Refugees Need your help! Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 To: freerenee@drugsense.org Reply-to: freerenee-request@drugsense.org Organization: http://www.reneeboje.com Below is the latest update on Steve Kubby and Steve Tuck. Following the press release are some instructions on how you can help support them. I encourage you to participate... the lives of Steve Kubby, Steve Tuck and their families are at stake! In unity, Renee Boje rboje@hotmail.com 604-886-6662 For Immediate Release: April 17, 2002 CONTACT: Michele Kubby 604-740-2103 Hilary Black 604-875-0214 Two U.S. Medical Marijuana Refugees Taken From Their Homes On The Sunshine Coast Yesterday. One is in life threatening danger while in custody. Sunshine Coast, BC, April 17, 2002- Steve Kubby and Steve Tuck, both medical marijuana patients from the US, were taken from their family homes by police on the Sunshine coast early yesterday. Both came to Canada to escape persecution for the medicinal use of cannabis. The arrests followed recent media attention, which many believe caused increased pressure from the US tohave them sent back. Steve Kubby has Phoechromocytoma, a rare form of cancer. He was given a prognosis of 6 months to live, 26 years ago. Steve Kubby is a medical miracle. Cannabis is the only medicine that controls Kubby's potentially fatal symptoms. The cancer causes the adrenal gland tissue to quickly replicate, and creates adrenaline levels 10-20 times those of a healthy adult. Cannabis prevents the replication of the abnormal cells and stops the secretion of the deadly adrenaline. If Kubby is held in custody without access to cannabis until Thursday, the day he is set to appear in provincial court, he may suffer serious or fatal health consequences. Michelle Kubby, Steve's wife, is a force to be reckoned with. "My husband is a walking time bomb. Cannabis is the only medicine that deals effectively with the life threatening symptoms of his disease. We are here legally, he is a legitimate medical patient being treated as a cross border criminal. It is irresponsible and unacceptable to put his life in danger because of a prejudice against a plant." Steve Tuck has charges pending in California for the distribution of medical cannabis to patients who have the legal right to posses the forbidden medicine. He was wounded in the line of duty while serving in the US army. Tuck is being persecuted by both Canadian and United States governments for his use and advocacy of medicinal cannabis. The police took Steve Tuck to the hospital for medical attention after his arrest, before he was taken into custody in Vancouver. The local community is outraged. Hilary Black, founder and spokesperson for the BC Compassion Club Society that distributes medical cannabis, is very aware of the political situation. "These men and their families are caught in a civil war between the State of California, where the medical use of cannabis is legal, and their Federal government which is oppressing patients with all of their political might. We must not bow to US pressure to persecute these families. Steve Kubby is now a political prisoner who could die without access to cannabis. Are Canadians prepared to give Steve Kubby a death sentence? He must be released immediately." Here is what you can do to help: 1. If you live in the Vancouver area, please attend their hearing. It is set for this Thursday, April 18th at 9AM at the Immigration Courthouse, which is located at 300 W. Georgia street in downtown Vancouver. We are organizing a rally outside the courthouse. It is important that we pack the courtroom in order to show our support for Steve Tuck and Steve Kubby! Please join us if you can! 2. Call Immigration supervisor, Mr. Kanuit at 604-666-6790 and tell him that medical cannabis patient, Steve Kubby requires his cannabis medicine while in the custody of Immigration Authorities in order to keep his adrenal cancer under control. His life depends on it! 3. Please spread this information far and wide! Thank you for your support! In unity & love, Renee Boje rboje@hotmail.com (604)886-6662 "Free the Plant, Save the Planet" Rob Waddell Planetary Pride 246 Queen Street East Sault Ste Marie Ontario, Canada P6A 1Y7 http://www.planetarypride.com Toll Free: 1-888-215-8970 Local:705-254-3926 Fax: 705-254-3610 The Immigration Hearings of Steve Tuck and Steve K By FlashGordon April 21, 2002 Steve Kubby and Steve Tuck, both medical marijuana patients from the US, were taken from their family homes by police on the Sunshine coast early yesterday. Both came to Canada to escape persecution for the medicinal use of cannabis. The arrests followed recent media attention, which many believe caused increased pressure from the US to have them sent back. Michelle Kubby was busy checking emails and making phone calls to help her husband Steve as Flash entered the Pot-tv studios in back of the BC Marijuana Party Bookstore. Flash gave he a big hug, "poor lady" was all he could bring himself to say. Return Pot To Ailing B.C. Man, RCMP Told Pot TV News with Steve & Michele Kubby MarijuanaNews.com * Ill Americans Seek Marijuana's Relief in Canada Petaluma Pot Grower Seeks Asylum in Canada * * Ken Hayes is viewed by the faithful as a cannabis Samaritan for running a medpot dispensary. Shown here smoking marijuana in a Canadian cafe, Hayes faces charges in the U.S. that carry a prison sentence of 10 years to life for growing marijuana plants in California.
Medical Marijuana Awareness Day on the Sunshine Coast By FlashGordon May 29, 2002 Shortly after Steve Tuck his wife and son arrived and the joy of his release on bail was infectious and spread more wildly when the Kubby's and their children too showed up and joined the crew beside the hall glad to be free. They had a harrowing experience in general lock up and although treated well by the officers that arrested them had been abused by the corporals and guards in lock up their medical needs not well taken care of transferred from one shit, piss, vomit and cum filled drunk tank into another at first and when Kubby banged on the wall because his blood pressure was peaking out the guards had threatened to beat him. Tuck, suffering from morphine withdrawal had stood up for him, getting between him and the guards warning that at least one of them would end up cold as a cucumber if they tried to hurt his cell mate. On the second day when Steve Tuck was pissing blood and Kubby spiting up blood and Tuck was losing hope Kubby reminded him of the higher calling the two hunger striking prisoners were called to and that the sacrificed they were making to the movement were their payment in blood and that they would be remembered and change would come. Three US Medical Marijuana Refugees Detained in British Colombia In the last few years, British Colombia has replaced Amsterdam as the refuge of choice for cannabis culture refugees fleeing oppression in the United States. Lured by the scenic beauty, civilized popular attitudes toward marijuana, and a government that generally reflects those attitudes, the flow of American expatriates into British Colombia has steadily increased. But a series of arrests of prominent medical marijuana refugees in the last two weeks suggests that the Canadian government, feeling the heat from its southern neighbor, is ready to crack down on the growing colony of Americans who have settled in British Colombia. Ed Rosenthal I wanted to write-in here and tell everybody that I have several thousand research papers about cannabis finally posted online for those who wish to study or site them in papers,etc. This has been a hell-of-a lot of work but I believe that only by shoving the truth down their throats will we ever have a prayer of being free. Peace, Steve Tuck http://www.hillbillydreams.ca/table_of_cannabis_research_index.htm Canadian Senate Report 2002 Pot-Tv shows and Stories... http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/pottvshowse-1734.html http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/pottvshowse-1043.html http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/pottvshowse-1105.html http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/pottvshowse-1281.html http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/pottvshowse-1036.html Renee Boje fights extradition to US As I watch my wife out of the corner of my eye with my 2-year-old son almost asleep at her breast, I can think of nothing that has weighed more heavily over my heart than the US extradition order against her for a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years to life. F U L L S T O R Y http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/4052.html Renee, Chris Bennett and Shiva Noam Chomsky on Renee Boje • You can find more information about Renee's case and instructions on how to snail mail a letter to Irwin Cotler at her website: http://www.reneeboje.com • For more on the history of Renee Boje: Renee Boje: married and pregnant News items about Renee NY Times Drug Policy Forum Drugsense Chat Room The Drugsense Chat Pot-TV * Todd McCormick Medical Marijuana Users Take Refuge in Canada Canada: Drug War Refugee Faces New Challenges - 10/08/99 Wanted American Flees To Canada - 9/26/99 U.S. Drug War's Target: A New Mom By Andrew Struthers, Special to the Sun Source: Vancouver Sun December 21, 2002 Gorgeous, guileless and naturally blissed out, Vancouver's Renee Boje, 32, is the perfect poster girl for pot activists; she's also a new mother and martyr for a cause she never dreamed she'd represent, a marijuana madonna with everyone from Noam Chomsky to Woody Harrelson writing letters on her behalf. Ganjawarnews: 5-31-4 WE WILL NOT FORGET! Stop The Federal War On Medical Marijuana by Dr. Andrew Weil TODAY, in dozens of cities and towns across the United States, something remarkable happened: Thousands of people battling cancer, AIDS and other terrible illnesses, their families, friends and supporters delivered cease-and-desist orders to the federal Drug Enforcement Administration to stop it from blocking their access to a needed medication. Their request was so simple, so obviously correct that it is heartbreaking that people -- many very seriously ill -- were forced to deliver their message in this way, with many risking arrest. But as individuals who have found that medical marijuana relieves their symptoms when conventional medicines fail, they felt they had no choice: The federal government continues to fight an irrational war against medical marijuana, and the sick and struggling are its principal victims. Make no mistake: The government's demonization of marijuana is irrational. When I first published a study in the journal, Science, on marijuana's physical and psychological effects back in 1968, I was certain that medical use of the plant would be legal within five years. This is, after all, a medicinal plant for which no fatal dose has ever been established and that has been used in folk medicine for millennia.
Steve Tuck’s Appeal to Canada. His Life and A Country’s Honor Hang In The Balance Posted by*Richard Cowan on*2005-10-04 16:20:00 I have been fighting the insanity of the war on cannabis users for many years, but I have never encountered a story more worthy of Kafka’s talents than Canada’s betrayal of Steve Tuck and its own principles.** Read Full Story... http://www.marijuananews.com/news.php3?sid=854 MarijuanaNews note: Steve Tuck is filing for an emergency stay of his departure order, now set for Thursday, October 6, 2005, at One PM. At that time he is to report to the Canadian border services to be returned to the US. If he is taken into federal custody his life will be in great danger, but Canada’s honor will have been disgraced. * I have been fighting the insanity of the war on cannabis users for many years, but I have never encountered a story more worthy of Kafka’s talents than Canada’s betrayal of Steve Tuck and its own principles. ** I have been writing about the cases of the American medical refugee’s since they were first arrested, and I have always believed that justice would ultimately prevail for them here. See Kubby and Tuck Freed After Being Held Hellish Conditions Marc Emery Posts Bail. MarijuanaNews Bulletin Canadian police raid US med-pot refugees Steve Tuck: being in the media gets him busted The Drug War Refugees Books by Steve Kubby Steve Kubby: email steve@kubby.com web www.kubby.com Steve Kubby checks marijuana plants in his two-car-garage-turned-greenhouse. Kubby calls it his "victory garden." In September, he won a medical marijuana exemption from a Canadian agency that allows him to grow 59 plants and store six pounds of pot at his home.
