By "Radical" Russ Belville on July 8, 2008
Local News | U.S. pot crusader Steve Kubby’s conviction erased | Seattle Times Newspaper
VANCOUVER, British Columbia —
A U.S. medical marijuana advocate who fought for four years to gain refugee status in Canada says he hopes to visit Canada again.
Steve Kubby lost his bid for refugee status and served 40 days of a 120-day sentence in California in 2006.
Last week, though, the conviction expunged from the former magazine publisher’s record after he successfully completed probation. Kubby says he has fond memories of Canada and hopes to visit again.
While fighting for refugee status, Kubby claimed that if he were returned to the U.S., he would be deprived of the marijuana he uses to keep the symptoms of a rare form of adrenal cancer in check.
After his claim was rejected, he returned to California voluntarily and was given a synthetic form of marijuana while in custody.
Posted in ACTIVISM, SOCIETY | Tagged British Columbia, Steve Kubby, Vancouver
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Does anyone have any follow-up on Steve’s experience with the “synthetic form of marijuana” while in custody? I’m guessing that it was marinol, and that it didn’t help him much.
Some of the newer products look more promising, such as Sativex—but I think the FDA will block those as long as it is able to.