cannabisnews.com: Pot 'Refugee' On Way To U.S. After Hopes Dashed Pot 'Refugee' On Way To U.S. After Hopes Dashed Posted by CN Staff on October 08, 2005 at 12:03:51 PT By Ian Mulgrew, Vancouver Sun Source: Vancouver Sun Vancouver, B.C. -- Moments after Steven Tuck regained consciousness Friday, Canadian border security officers slapped him in handcuffs and whisked him out of St. Paul's Hospital emergency ward, catheter and all.One of a number of high-profile American medical marijuana refugees, Tuck's hopes of an 11th-hour appeal halting his return to the U.S were dashed. He now is on his way back to face pot-growing charges in California and potential federal charges related to his flight from prosecution.The 38-year-old pot activist said he deserved protection because he claims to have donated thousands of pot seeds to Health Canada's fledgling medical marijuana program when he entered the country five years ago.Severely injured during a stint in the U.S. military, Tuck requires massive doses of painkillers that leave him nauseous. He smokes marijuana, as do many cancer and AIDS patients, to relieve that sick feeling.He was admitted to St. Paul's around noon Thursday complaining of severe intestinal cramps. He was catheterized, medicated and released. He was re-admitted Friday morning in extreme pain.Doctors treated him throughout the morning.About lunchtime, three Canada Border Services Agency enforcement officers arrived at the hospital.Shortly afterwards, they bundled him into a silver grey Ford Explorer and whisked him away.Snipped:Complete Article: http://www.freedomtoexhale.com/tuck.htmSource: Vancouver Sun (CN BC)Author: Ian Mulgrew, Vancouver Sun Published: Saturday, October 8, 2005Copyright: 2005 Vancouver Sun Contact: sunletters png.canwest.comWebsite: http://www.vancouversun.com/Related Articles:Ill Americans Seek Marijuana's Relief in Canadahttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread14035.shtmlCalifornia Men Face Hearing in Canada http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread12562.shtml Nothing Easy About Life In Exilehttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread12350.shtml Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help Comment #37 posted by Hope on October 21, 2005 at 17:16:12 PT Steve Sure would like to have some word today. Nothing new over at Richard Cowan's that I can see. [ Post Comment ] Comment #36 posted by FoM on October 20, 2005 at 18:04:37 PT Current Update on Steve Tuck By Richard Cowan http://marijuananews.com/news.php3?sid=861 [ Post Comment ] Comment #35 posted by Hope on October 20, 2005 at 04:45:29 PT Steve I hope they don't slap him back in jail and start with the inhumane treatment again. [ Post Comment ] Comment #34 posted by FoM on October 19, 2005 at 22:41:56 PT runderwo I personally don't want to get into this because I know how I feel but I'll keep it to myself. I hope Steve gets decent treatment when he turns himself over tomorrow. [ Post Comment ] Comment #33 posted by runderwo on October 19, 2005 at 22:18:36 PT Peter Lewis I didn't get the Peter Lewis reference. This explains it. Wow! Reefer gladness - Drug users in the next office and atop the corporate ladder [ Post Comment ] Comment #32 posted by FoM on October 19, 2005 at 22:06:40 PT Update On Steve Tuck From Richard Cowan Top Story: Medical Marijuana Patient, Steve Tuck, Denounces Marijuana Policy Project For Using His Name In Fund Raising Appeal. Tuck Must Report To Feds In SF Thursday. http://marijuananews.com/news.php3?sid=860 [ Post Comment ] Comment #31 posted by FoM on October 12, 2005 at 17:39:52 PT New Update on Steve Tuck By Richard Cowan http://marijuananews.com/news.php3?sid=857 [ Post Comment ] Comment #30 posted by FoM on October 12, 2005 at 07:00:24 PT Related Article from 24 Hours Vancouver Hospitalized American Sent Back to U.S. to Face ChargesFled to Canada in 2002 after facing marijuana chargesBy Robyn Stubbs, 24 hours Wednesday, October 12, 2005 Medicinal marijuana advocates across the U.S/Canada border were left feeling sick after the Canada Border Services Agency took Steve Tuck from his gurney in St. Paul’s Hospital and handed him to U.S. authorities this weekend. Tuck, an American citizen who fled to Canada after facing state charges in California in 2002 for using pot, was in hospital Friday afternoon when his time in Canada ran out. Tuck was handed over to authorities at Bellingham’s Whatcom County jail, and later transferred to the King County jail in Seattle, where he was refused medical attention, said Seattle criminal defense attorney Douglas Hiatt. “This is just an outrage having this guy in jail. The idea we’re now ripping people out of the hospital to toss them in jail is crazy,” said Hiatt, adding Tuck was taking heavy doses of morphine to help with chronic pain from several back surgeries and needed marijuana to combat nausea. According to public records, Tuck fought his deportation by claiming he would be jailed and denied marijuana in the U.S., putting his life at risk. Tuck’s refugee status claim was denied Feb. 17, 2004, when the Immigration and Refugee Board decided Tuck would not face personal risk or cruel and unusual treatment or punishment if returned to the U.S. The CBSA, which carried out Tuck’s deportation, told 24 hours the same rules apply to everyone: when you’re time is up, is doesn’t matter where you are, you’re leaving Canada. “One of the roles we play is to ensure that individuals who are not eligible to remain in Canada are removed as soon as possible. It’s practical and it’s a responsibility that we have,” said Paula Shore of CBSA. The case is now in the hands of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, which is deciding whether to charge Tuck with a federal crime. The U.S. Attorney’s Office did not respond by 24 hours’ presstime. Copyright: 2005, Canoe Inc. http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/News/2005/10/12/1259172.html [ Post Comment ] Comment #29 posted by FoM on October 10, 2005 at 20:54:15 PT Update On Steve Tuck By Richard Cowan http://marijuananews.com/news.php3?sid=856 [ Post Comment ] Comment #28 posted by Hope on October 10, 2005 at 07:53:20 PT Steve Steve is sweet. [ Post Comment ] Comment #27 posted by unkat27 on October 10, 2005 at 07:15:28 PT Re: Bilderberg This is the part that caught my ear:"What can come out of our meetings is that it is wrong not to try to deal with a problem..."It would appear that for the most part, these vultures consider cannabis use a problem. Probably because it reduces all the profit they make in pharmaceuticals and alcohol, and all the other junk these greedy capitalists like to dump on us when they have our minds under their full control. [ Post Comment ] Comment #26 posted by E_Johnson on October 09, 2005 at 08:50:42 PT unkat27 did you find this part humorous? From the article:Observers like Will Hutton argue that such private networks have both good and bad sides. They are unaccountable to voters but, at the same time, they do keep the international system functioning. And there are limits to their power - a point which Bilderberg chairman was keen to stress, "When people say this is a secret government of the world I say that if we were a secret government of the world we should be bloody ashamed of ourselves."****************************************************Well that made me chuckle! I'd be more afraid of him if he thought everything was going just fine. [ Post Comment ] Comment #25 posted by FoM on October 09, 2005 at 08:50:31 PT Yes EJ I Hope So He is a Veteran and withdrawal is horrible from narcotics and Steve is a nice person. I hope they are treating him properly. I am very sensitive to people's pain. The legality of Steve's case isn't really important to me but his health is. Addiction often starts from injuries while defending our country. It always has been that way. [ Post Comment ] Comment #24 posted by E_Johnson on October 09, 2005 at 08:45:18 PT FoM I'm going to hope for the best I think we've seen before that when federal agents actually have a medical prisoner in their custody, their tough demeanor cracks a bit and real human feelings have a chance to come through.Besdies, Steve is a veteran. He served his country and look how his country takes care of him now that he's disabled.That's going to give any federal agent pause, because they do get injured in the line of duty, and the question of whether their government will be there to back them up if they get disabled can't be far from their minds. [ Post Comment ] Comment #23 posted by FoM on October 09, 2005 at 08:03:10 PT Another Question Does anyone talk with Steve's wife? Above all things I want to know that Steve is getting medical care. If anyone has any information on his condition please post it. [ Post Comment ] Comment #22 posted by unkat27 on October 09, 2005 at 07:56:44 PT Paul Martin is a Bilderberg Vulture http://www.infowars.com/articles/nwo/bilderberg_inside_secretive_group.htmInside the secretive Bilderberg Group Excerpt: How much influence do private networks of the rich and powerful have on government policies and international relations? One group, the Bilderberg, has often attracted speculation that it forms a shadowy global government. As part of the BBC's Who Runs Your World? series, Bill Hayton tries to find out more.The chairman of the secretive - he prefers the word private - Bilderberg Group is 73-year-old Viscount Etienne Davignon, corporate director and former European Commissioner.In his office, on a private floor above the Brussels office of the Suez conglomerate lined with political cartoons of himself, he told me what he thought of allegations that Bilderberg is a global conspiracy secretly ruling the world."It is unavoidable and it doesn't matter," he says. "There will always be people who believe in conspiracies but things happen in a much more incoherent fashion."Lack of publicityIn an extremely rare interview, he played down the importance of Bilderberg in setting the international agenda. "What can come out of our meetings is that it is wrong not to try to deal with a problem. But a real consensus, an action plan containing points 1, 2 and 3? The answer is no. People are much too sensible to believe they can do that."Every year since 1954, a small network of rich and powerful people have held a discussion meeting about the state of the trans-Atlantic alliance and the problems facing Europe and the US. ------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Martin is a member. So are some of the big wigs in DC. This may explain why his regime is so bent on complete cooperation with the US fascists of the DEA. The Bilderbergs are similar to the Carlyles. They care more about wealth and power than people. The people should get smart and cut them down from their high and mighty thrones. The Bilderberg Diaries [ Post Comment ] Comment #21 posted by afterburner on October 09, 2005 at 04:49:03 PT I Am Livid The US Government has no heart. They are misusing the Gonzales v. Raich decision to persecute Steve Tuck for a 'crime' established by legislative fiat, based on lying, racist propaganda with no facts whatsoever. Today 68 years later, they are attacking Steve Tuck and the citizens of California for following California state law. According to the latest reports, the US government intends to make a 'federal case' out of Steve Tuck's misfortune. A veteran of the US military service -- no purple heart for Steve, it's off to the hoosegow where 'medical' treatment does not recognize his medical needs for cannabis. "Medicine by regulation is better than medicine by referendum," [sic] said Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. What about medicine by doctors? Doctors did not recommend that cannabis be made illegal, that it be dropped from the medical formulary or the materia medica. Medicine by science is better than medicine by politics!The government of Canada has no spine. They are letting bureaucratic flunkies override Canada's established medical cannabis regulations by a cowardly act of collusion with the most backward drug policy on the planet. They are playing games with the lives of Steve Tuck, Steve Kubby, and Renee Boje. What exactly have these brave souls done to Canada to warrant such ill treatment by the Canadian legal authorities? These so-called 'reefer refugees' have warned for years that they faced torture, denial of [legal in Canada] medical treatment, and possible death by neglect [like Jonathan Magbie]. What government officials get to wear a 'feather in their cap' for the sterile mishandling of these legitimate human rights violations?! Who exactly benefits from this barbaric travesty? The citizens of Canada? The citizens of the USA? The citizens of the UN? Who? Who? [ Post Comment ] Comment #20 posted by FoM on October 08, 2005 at 21:11:50 PT A Question Why did the Feds take Steve before Tuesday? I hope it is because they are going to take him to a hospital. [ Post Comment ] Comment #19 posted by The GCW on October 08, 2005 at 19:58:25 PT EXAMINING EXISTING SOCIAL PROBLEMS. Hold on tight.THCUSomehow, what is going on seems related to this, if anyone can identify...:::“Institutional religion is now caught in the stalemate of a vicious circle. It cannot reconstruct society without first reconstructing itself; and being so much an integral part of the established order, it cannot reconstruct itself until society has been radically reconstructed.” Urantia paper 99 part 2 para 2, page 1087. The SOCIAL PROBLEMS OF RELIGION. [ Post Comment ] Comment #18 posted by FoM on October 08, 2005 at 19:53:43 PT Update On Steve Tuck From Richard Cowan Update: Steve has already been taken by the Feds. He may get better medical care and we are trying to find out what is going to happen to him. There is no further need to contact Whatcom County.http://marijuananews.com/news.php3?sid=856 [ Post Comment ] Comment #17 posted by FoM on October 08, 2005 at 17:39:06 PT Hope We just finished watching VHI because they played Prairie Wind and then they played the video Walking To New Orleans from Country Music Television just as it was done. I thought it would be edited but it wasn't. We turned on the History Channel but like Dankhank said it needs to be updated because things have changed since it was made. Now we're watching Naked Gun on Comedy Central. That's a great diversion from all the heavy news. [ Post Comment ] Comment #16 posted by Hope on October 08, 2005 at 17:21:32 PT Global Warming I have on bright red and micky mouse...but no matter what it is, it's figurative sackcloth. Fasting? Naturaly. Not dying though...not literaly...probably. Anyway. "The road goes on forever". [ Post Comment ] Comment #15 posted by Hope on October 08, 2005 at 17:12:58 PT Never walk down a road too long.... if you know it's not going where you wanted or want to go. [ Post Comment ] Comment #14 posted by Hope on October 08, 2005 at 17:11:35 PT Music Loud enough to not hear or feel an earthquake...at least. [ Post Comment ] Comment #13 posted by Hope on October 08, 2005 at 17:09:32 PT Part of the "peace" that the U. S. once knew. was "not knowing". We are no longer protected in not knowing. Tragedy in the world is "at our doorstep"...at the speed of light, no less.Some fruit is bitter indeed. [ Post Comment ] Comment #12 posted by hope on October 08, 2005 at 17:04:13 PT Neil Young singing "Let's roll another number..." just ended "my turn" at controling house hold media. Outlaw Country, which was helping me move a bit and get a little done....has now been replaced with my dear one's put up his feet and watch tv time. [ Post Comment ] Comment #11 posted by FoM on October 08, 2005 at 16:26:21 PT Mayan Canada and the U.S. are really one big country. Even Neil Young said that recently on a radio interview. Globalization has made it that way. When I was young I didn't understand why we didn't own Canada. I guess we really do.Thanks for the poll. I wonder how much lower it can go. [ Post Comment ] Comment #10 posted by mayan on October 08, 2005 at 16:16:51 PT Tuck He's such a threat to society. Never mind the murderers,rapists,child molesters,thieves and terrorists. What a f*cked up country. Canada doesn't look so good either right now. The colors of the prohibitionists are being exposed by the light as being the darkest of darks. They cannot win this war for they don't have the moral high ground. The world is coming to the realization that they never did. Going down,down,down...Bush Approval - Raw Poll Data: http://www.pollkatz.homestead.com/files/pollkatzmainGRAPHICS_8911_image001.gifHow low can you go? [ Post Comment ] Comment #9 posted by global_warming on October 08, 2005 at 15:30:37 PT Some Sack and Water Pray to God in nakedness,The distant stars twinkle and sing,The smokes of GloryAre the mists that fadeAs we pass each step is LightedTo remind and assureWe are membersForever and Ever [ Post Comment ] Comment #8 posted by Hope on October 08, 2005 at 15:05:27 PT Lord I can't bear it. [ Post Comment ] Comment #7 posted by global_warming on October 08, 2005 at 14:58:41 PT Facing Pain and Shame Thats the way we do it around here, in this good old USA. [ Post Comment ] Comment #6 posted by FoM on October 08, 2005 at 14:39:24 PT charmed quark Yes that is what I read too. I don't know if it's still called this but it was called cold turkey. That's the way they do it around here. [ Post Comment ] Comment #5 posted by charmed quark on October 08, 2005 at 14:33:54 PT he's being held w/o treatment according to marijuananews.com [ Post Comment ] Comment #4 posted by JHarshaw on October 08, 2005 at 14:33:29 PT shame Today I am ashamed to be a Canadian. [ Post Comment ] Comment #3 posted by FoM on October 08, 2005 at 12:56:10 PT Yes EJ We are watching a concert and when these words were sung I thought of Steve.***Once you're gone you can't go back.***I hope that the Judges in California will help him too. [ Post Comment ] Comment #2 posted by E_Johnson on October 08, 2005 at 12:45:29 PT I hope we see him again Let's give the judges in California a chance to do the right thing before we condemn them for killing him. [ Post Comment ] Comment #1 posted by charmed quark on October 08, 2005 at 12:25:29 PT What a shame How could Canada allow this? They will kill him in prison and Canada knows this.-CQ [ Post Comment ] Post Comment