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Marijuana Activist May Be Deported To U.S.
Posted by CN Staff on January 21, 2006 at 07:45:25 PT
By Shannon Kari
Source: Globe and Mail 
Vancouver -- Medical marijuana activist Steve Kubby, his wife, Michele, and their two young daughters may be deported to the United States within days after a Federal Court of Canada judge turned down their request for an emergency stay of a removal order.Mr. Justice Yvon Pinard ruled that the public interest was not served by "delaying further" in the federal government's statutory duty to enforce the removal order "as soon as reasonably practicable."
"Canadian law does not give a foreign national such as Steven Wynn Kubby a right to reside in Canada simply because he or she may be able to obtain some preferred medical treatment or other benefit in Canada," the judge said in a nine-page ruling.Ms. Kubby, who represented the family at a Federal Court hearing in Vancouver earlier this month, said her husband could die if he is deported to the United States and put in jail for a minor drug conviction.Mr. Kubby, 59, uses marijuana to control a rare form of adrenal cancer. He is facing a jail sentence of least 120 days after a 2001 conviction in California for possessing a minute amount of mescaline and psilocin. The family moved to B.C. after the drug possession conviction.Judge Pinard, who was a federal cabinet minister under Pierre Trudeau, said it "remains speculative" that Mr. Kubby will be jailed in the United States, or that he will be denied adequate medical care.Chris Cattran, the Placer County district attorney who prosecuted Mr. Kubby, did not return calls for comment yesterday.He was quoted earlier this month in a California newspaper as stating that Mr. Kubby will be detained once he crosses the border and is likely to spend more than 120 days in jail.A senior official at the Placer County jail said that Mr. Kubby could not have marijuana in custody. He could be prescribed Marinol, a synthetic form of THC, the official said."We don't see what the big rush is" to deportation, said Mr. Kubby, who lives in Sun Peaks, B.C. "We are jumpy every time the door knocks."He explained that Marinol is not effective in coping with his cancer, and stressed that, apart from his health concerns, "the problem is that no one wants to admit this is political."Mr. Kubby ran for governor of California in 1998 as a Libertarian and received more than 70,000 votes. He was also involved in the successful campaign to pass California's Proposition 215 in 1995, which permits people to possess or cultivate marijuana for medical use.The drug possession conviction was imposed after a mistrial was declared in a lengthy trial in California, where Mr. Kubby was accused of selling marijuana to compassion clubs.The jury voted 11-1 for acquittal in the case, which was prosecuted by Mr. Cattran."I am not a lawbreaker, I am a law maker," Mr. Kubby said."All we are asking for is more time to clear my name." Mr. Kubby said his conviction was improperly changed by the courts in California during the appeal process to be a felony, rather than misdemeanour, offence.The original sentence for drug possession was to be served through house arrest. Mr. Kubby said his family decided to move to Canada because there was no guarantee that he would be allowed to continue to possess marijuana for medical use. "They could arrest me again at any time," he said.Mr. Kubby is filing an appeal of Judge Pinard's ruling in the Federal Court of Appeal and is hopeful he will be allowed to remain in the country. "We continue to believe Canada is compassionate," he said.The Canada Border Services Agency has the authority to execute the removal order immediately, as a result of the court ruling. "They will be contacted. Their case will be dealt with," said agency spokeswoman Janis Fergusson.Privacy regulations restrict the government from disclosing how it will handle the removal of the Kubby family, Ms. Fergusson said. "It is not going to be a year from now. We are expected to do it in a short period of time," she said.Source: Globe and Mail (Canada) Author: Shannon KariPublished: Saturday, January 21, 2006 Page S3Copyright: 2006 The Globe and Mail CompanyContact: letters globeandmail.caWebsite: http://www.globeandmail.com/Related Articles & Web Sites:The Kubby Chronicleshttp://www.kubby.org/The Drug War Refugeeshttp://freedomtoexhale.com/smk.htmDeport Pot 'Refugee,' Federal Lawyer Asks http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread21466.shtmlTime Running Out for Medical Pot 'Refugee'http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread21463.shtmlFormer Placer Medipot Activist May Lose Refugehttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread21451.shtml
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Comment #25 posted by FoM on January 23, 2006 at 16:23:01 PT
Just a Small Note
I am not sure about talking about this but it looks like the Kubbys will be back soon. 
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Comment #24 posted by mayan on January 22, 2006 at 06:21:26 PT
Australia
MP WANTS ALL DOPE SMOKERS CONVICTED:
http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,17876801%255E2682,00.htmlNot our father's pot? Hell no! He smoked all that sh*t years ago. Can we smoke low-THC grass legally? Can we smoke less high-THC grass? Mental illness? Attempting to prohibit a plant that grows out of the earth is indicative of mental illness. 
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Comment #23 posted by mayan on January 22, 2006 at 04:58:46 PT
Strategy
That's the word! 
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Comment #22 posted by mayan on January 22, 2006 at 04:44:32 PT
Stategy
It is their only strong point...Rove: GOP to Use Terror As Campaign Issue:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/R/REPUBLICANS_ROVE?SITE=NYNYD&SECTION=POLITICS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULTIt is their biggest weak point...200+ (keeps growin'!) 9/11 'Smoking Guns' Found in the Mainstream Media:
http://thewebfairy.com/killtown/911smokingguns.htmlTHE WAY OUT IS THE WAY IN.
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Comment #21 posted by Toker00 on January 22, 2006 at 04:09:59 PT
And this is suppose to be the friendlies?
Herbdoc215. Damn. This is something you would expect to see in the movies about some third world communist country, not an assumed civilized society. Looks like Canadians are about to go through their "Compassionate Conservative" nightmare. Bush is at the helm here and there.Man, I wish there was some way you could get your hands on those video tapes. But the cameras probably didn't even have film in them. And these sinister bastards are the people who are suppose to serve and protect? HUH! Canada, start mourning your losses. Fascism is sweeping the world.Wage peace on war. END CANNABIS PROHIBITION NOW!
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Comment #20 posted by mayan on January 22, 2006 at 04:09:38 PT
Flood Em'
National PATRIOT Act Call-in Day: Wednesday, January 25, 2006:
http://bordc.org/threats/call-in.phpSPREAD THE WORD!!!!Tuck, words can't begin to say.
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Comment #19 posted by whig on January 22, 2006 at 01:33:52 PT
herbdoc215
I want to cry. I don't even know what else to say.
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Comment #18 posted by herbdoc215 on January 21, 2006 at 23:52:13 PT
Part 2
Every time I was cath'ed it was only following much hell raising by me, the jail staff played this psych-ops game with us of not telling us anything that was coming up or schedule for sick-call (which in Vancouver jail consisted off jailers handing out blood pressure medicine (clonidine) to all the inmates going through horrible withdrawal symptoms who screamed all night and day with the agony of hell, this attempt to knock all unconscious was preceded by a nurse with a BP cuff and stethoscope who pronounced all fit by fiat I assume as many I saw were clearly not " alright ' and she gave Kubby an Imodium AD and Clonidine with the junkies for 3 days and I was amazed at total lack of any medical care or compassion. I was told first that I wasn't prescribed morphine (despite jailers having possession of my bottle of meds from my Canadian MD), then I was told no how no way would they give me my morphine out of my bottle, BY THEN my mind was shot and stuff was crawling all over me, my pain level at that time was about to put me into shock anyway as my MD for last 5 years has warned me repeatedly against stopping my morphine because my heart would have trouble with pain level, suicidal pain is what Dr. Tam called it. 
Then last day (day 3) I was given ONE of my pills but by then I was so far in deficit that it didn't touch the withdrawal I was going through. In court my attorney kept trying to get my attention and answers and could not understand that I was incommunicado about all facets of case at that time. After release from jail it was 7 or 8 days before I could urinate without 3 hours of manipulating my bladder and much pain as I am afraid another episode like that and I will utterly loose the ability to live without a dangerous and smelly colostomy bag. My pain in my spine has been very intense also since then. I have spared you the reader many horrible details but I think I made my point, we came here only to be free and live and was treated worse than Canadians treat dogs, have I become that much less than human because of my infirmary or is my medicine that keeps me alive cause me to become less than you? 
        Peace, Steve Tuck
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Comment #17 posted by herbdoc215 on January 21, 2006 at 23:50:55 PT
Reminder of fun times facing Kubby...
Tuck, Steven 10/18/02 Jail and My Political Nightmare 
On the morning of April 2nd we were raided by RCMP in response (they said ) to several reports that had appeared in media about me and a couple of other refugee's from the United States fanatical war upon drugs. At about 9am I was awakened by a very loud knock upon our back sliding glass door that led to our deck in back yard that's closed off by a gate. Our dogs were barking loudly and a general mayhem ensued. I was clad in my underwear and blue jeans and nothing else, my wife Lucy was allowed to bring me a t-shirt after I was handcuffed. 
Aside-- In the mornings my illnesses is at it's worse, due to a failed surgery by a military MD my spine leaks fluid faster that it makes it, so at night when my body reabsorbs the fluid (as everyone's does) the level drops a lot and fast in me leading too much pain, nausea and pressure headaches, which causes a much greater effect on my lower extremity paralysis. This is also followed with my morning battle to urinate and defecate without resorting to mechanical means as has been used so many times in my case--- Cannabis is documented by several physicians in several hospital controlled situations as being ONLY tool that allows me to use bathroom without catheters and colostomy bags which are both smelly and can cause life threatening infections. Cannabis also allows morphine to dose in morning to synergize and work 75% faster and 200% stronger- until these kick in I am in agony in mornings. 
RCMP along with 2 immigration officers were being " supervised " by two DEA agents who looked like they had been sent looking for any excuse to cause a ' scene ' but we put dogs in a room and gave them no excuse to get violent. The RCMP said they KNEW I had a grow and they could smell it so they didn't need a warrant to search for it, I could not find the keys to basement so they tore door off it's hinges to look inside for our " grow " but finding none they charged me with being honest- am immigration violation when I knew no record of my entry into country existed so I could have told RCMP that I got there the month before and they could never have proven otherwise... 
So after being charged with overstaying a visa by 2 weeks I was placed into a holding cell in Sechelt RCMP station with little or no explanation, no phone call, and begging to be allowed to go to hospital to be catheterized because RCMP refused to allow me to smoke my medicine or even take my pills like morphine that I am prescribed to have and must have to live before I was placed under arrest and put in police van along with 2 Immigration officers while RCMP searched my house (which they did not find anything to charge me with to their amazement ) and we left for Sechelt jail/police station were I was placed into a holding cell by myself- I must add here that I requested medical attention from minute I was placed into cuffs because the cops would not even allow me to attempt to go to bathroom and my bladder was full from night before, every request from me was met with derision from Immigration and RCMP, as a matter of fact the cops made fun of my statement that I could not urinate without cannabis and my pain level was through the roof without my morphine as even with morphine and hash I am in extreme pain for about 2 hours every morning until my body builds up enough spinal fluid. 
My wife gave RCMP my medication bottles, which contained Dexedrine, morphine, and an antibiotic I was taking at the time for an infection. After being held at jail in Sechelt_ for 3 hours and being told nothing, I was loaded into a van with Steve Kubby and we were told we were going to Vancouver to Immigration and I was being turned over to US authorities and would be in jail in California the next day, despite my pleas for them to hear me out before this went any further. 
I started complaining louder to the 2 Immigration officers that I badly needed to go the hospital to be catheterized to drain my bladder as I was in extreme pain by then, I even tried explaining to them the dire reasons I had to be drained like bladders rupture and back-flow to kidneys but it was all a big game and joke to them, I even told them I would not seek any sort of medication or treatment other than catheterizing me which I told them would not take 5 minutes as the Imm. 
Cops were hyper worried about missing ferry despite my earlier pleas and our 3 or 4 hour wait at Sechelt RCMP when this could have taken place. Well with a 3 hour ferry trip in front of me I wigged out and told them that shit was on if I wasn't taken to hospital and after MUCH heated debate I was taken to Sechelt hospital and with a police escort and in handcuffs I was taken upstairs and cath'ed by a nurse to told cop guarding me that she had never had that much trouble getting a cath in as my prostrate was not responsive and VERY tight and that I wasn't faking it. 
Well, when cop told Immigration people they didn't want to hear it and left. When we arrived at ferry the same DEA cops who supervised the raid at my house was parked in next row, I showed the cops and truck to Kubby. We missed our supposed ferry and had to wait for next for 2 hours. After the ferry trip I could see Steve Kubby's blood pressure rise and sweat was pouring out of him and he was pleading still to be allowed to use bathroom as he had for entire ferry trip and wait, Officers kept telling him to wait until we got to jail. At that point Steve drops his sweats and does the coolest thing I have ever personally seen and he urinates on floor of the Immigration van, well you would have thought he shot the King Cop by the way they acted. 
To say they threw a fit is an understatement. Well no long after that Kubby has a blood pressure attack and we thought he was having a heart attack so I begged the cops to call a ambulance, which after much hollering and screaming she did, after I told hr who Kubby was and that if she let him die in the back of a van on side of the road I would ensure that the entire world knew it was HER fault, well she backpedaled and I went in for the cinch, ambulance was called instead of us heading for nearest hospital in N. Vancouver. 
In about a half hour a fire truck and 2 cops show up and scene takes on a carnival atmosphere, after cops all talk for 10 minutes a cop sticks his head in and ask Steve how he feels (ask him how he feels??) at that point Steve say's to cops to just forget it as he will die at this rate before he would see an MD but this is after we overhear the fire truck driver actually say to Immigration cops, " Fuck him, if he dies he dies I isn’t crawling trough that piss to check him out and he's probably faking anyway " After circus loaded up we were really auguring with the female Immigration officer as she continually showed disgust with me and Kubby and our plight. After arriving at jail she told me on way in that she was going to " ensure my stay was very special “ for giving her such a hard time (sorry, I am crippled?). By now I am in full blown withdrawal and things are crawling all over me plus pain was as bad as it had ever been and logic gets ever more elusive the further into withdrawal I get. First they stand us in this little room handcuffed for what seemed like forever. Then this sadistic corporal comes in and orders us to get undressed, when Kubby asked to see MD the guard starts going into this spiel about this is his jail and we get none of those pussy American pleasures as doctors and besides he say's we will be in US tomorrow and we can get aid there. 
Well, by then I was feeling pressure upon my bladder as it was a rush job at hospital and not drained well. The jailers got real pissed because me and Steve kept asking to see a doctor and he said he was going to make my life a living hell and I told him the military had already beat him to it. I was thrown into the drunken tank as soon as we were booked in at the jail. The two corporals who were in charge kept telling me how they hated our kind and they started taunting us from the initial strip-search until the minute we left with the 2 corporals being the worst offenders. One of them looked like Opine Taylor from Andy Griffin TV show and the other one was from Pakistan or something like that because he could barely speak English and it was so surreal to have him telling me my kind wasn't welcome here and Americans were pigs, and he could barely pronounce the hate he spewed forth. The more we asked for medical treatment the worse we were treated; the threats kept escalating until they started becoming physical. 
We were placed into one 3x6 ft. cell after another, one had cum on floors, 3 had puke in them and stench was unbearable, 2 had blood in several places in them that hadn't dried yet. I was placed into 2 cells that were already full and wasn't even allowed a mattress on floor, one even had milk poured all over floor of it that the Pakistani corporal took extreme pleasure in placing me in during the height of my pain. I was cath'ed 4 times in almost 4 days, this is torture against the Geneva Convention and I was never treated this bad even in US were offense is alleged to have occurred? We were put on exhibit like zoo animals with every jailer taking turns when we were in 3x6 cells coming by our windows and staring/leering/taunting us with insults. I have never in all my days seen anyone hard-timed like this, we were continually told we were not wanted and to go back to US plus both corporals told me nobody cared what they did to us in there that we had been written off as nobodies? 
Anecdotal Evidence... Details: The corporal who looked like Opie Taylor was trying to hard time us in the 3x6 cells which were in a chamber of 4 linked together by a common room where they could supposedly keep an eye on all of us in isolation cells that was meant to mess with us. The parade of jailers continued the entire night the first night as we were held the entire night in isolation cells and rotated about every two hours for psychological effect. These isolation cells all had camera's in them in very prominent positions so we would KNOW that big brother was watching, I would like to present those films as evidence of our torture and degradation by jailers at direction of Immigration officer Andrea ... who told me she was going to make my life hell because I made rude comments about her being heartless and cruel. She fought tooth and nail against me going to hospital and getting catheterized and against Kubby receiving any medical attention at all. 
Every time I was cath'ed it was only following much hell raising by me, the jail staff played this psych-ops game with us of not telling us anything that was coming up or schedule for sick-call (which in Vancouver jail consisted off jailers handing out blood pressure medicine (clonidine) to all the inmates going through horrible withdrawal symptoms who screamed all night and day with the agony of hell, this attempt to knock all unconscious was preceded by a nurse with a BP cuff and stethoscope who pronounced all fit by fiat I assume as many I saw were clearly not " alright ' and she gave Kubby an Imodium AD and Clonidine with the junkies for 3 days and I was amazed at total lack of any medical care or compassion. I was told first that I wasn't prescribed morphine (despite jailers having possession of my bottle of meds from my Canadian MD), then I was told no how no way would they give me my morphine out of my bottle, BY THEN my mind was shot and stuff was crawling all over me, my pain level at that time was about to put me into shock anyway as my MD for last 5 years has warned me repeatedly against stopping my morphine because my heart would have trouble with pain level, suicidal pain is what Dr. Tam called it. 
Then last day (day 3) I was given ONE of my pills but by then I was so far in deficit that it didn't touch the withdrawal I was going through. In court my attorney kept trying to get my attention and answers and could not understand that I was incommunicado about all facets of case at that time. After release from jail it was 7 or 8 days before I could urinate without 3 hours of manipulating my bladder and much pain as I am afraid another episode like that and I will utterly loose the ability to live without a dangerous and smelly colostomy bag. My pain in my spine has been very intense also since then. I have spared you the reader many horrible details but I think I made my point, we came here only to be free and live and was treated worse than Canadians treat dogs, have I become that much less than human because of my infirmary or is my medicine that keeps me alive cause me to become less than you? 
. Well, by then I was feeling pressure upon my bladder as it was a rush job at hospital and not drained well. The jailers got real pissed because me and Steve kept asking to see a doctor and he said he was going to make my life a living hell and I told him the military had already beat him to it. I was thrown into the drunken tank as soon as we were booked in at the jail. The two corporals who were in charge kept telling me how they hated our kind and they started taunting us from the initial strip-search until the minute we left with the 2 corporals being the worst offenders. One of them looked like Opine Taylor from Andy Griffin TV show and the other one was from Pakistan or something like that because he could barely speak English and it was so surreal to have him telling me my kind wasn't welcome here and Americans were pigs, and he could barely pronounce the hate he spewed forth. The more we asked for medical treatment the worse we were treated; the threats kept escalating until they started becoming physical. 
We were placed into one 3x6 ft. cell after another, one had cum on floors, 3 had puke in them and stench was unbearable, 2 had blood in several places in them that hadn't dried yet. I was placed into 2 cells that were already full and wasn't even allowed a mattress on floor, one even had milk poured all over floor of it that the Pakistani corporal took extreme pleasure in placing me in during the height of my pain. I was cath'ed 4 times in almost 4 days, this is torture against the Geneva Convention and I was never treated this bad even in US were offense is alleged to have occurred? We were put on exhibit like zoo animals with every jailer taking turns when we were in 3x6 cells coming by our windows and staring/leering/taunting us with insults. I have never in all my days seen anyone hard-timed like this, we were continually told we were not wanted and to go back to US plus both corporals told me nobody cared what they did to us in there that we had been written off as nobodies? 
Anecdotal Evidence... Details: The corporal who looked like Opie Taylor was trying to hard time us in the 3x6 cells which were in a chamber of 4 linked together by a common room where they could supposedly keep an eye on all of us in isolation cells that was meant to mess with us. The parade of jailers continued the entire night the first night as we were held the entire night in isolation cells and rotated about every two hours for psychological effect. These isolation cells all had camera's in them in very prominent positions so we would KNOW that big brother was watching, I would like to present those films as evidence of our torture and degradation by jailers at direction of Immigration officer Andrea ... who told me she was going to make my life hell because I made rude comments about her being heartless and cruel. She fought tooth and nail against me going to hospital and getting catheterized and against Kubby receiving any medical attention at all. 
Continued next post...peace, steve tuck
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Comment #16 posted by whig on January 21, 2006 at 23:17:43 PT
Canada
Canadian elections are on Monday. The anti-cannabis Conservatives are expected to win. On the positive side, they are still only expected to obtain less than 40% of the parliamentary seats, and all the other major parties are pro-decrim to one degree or another.OT: 5% of the ENTIRE world supply of petroleum just... Disappeared.http://today.reuters.com/business/newsarticle.aspx?type=tnBusinessNews&storyID=nL20548125&imageid=∩=(Kuwait has HALF the reserves previously thought, and they were previously believed to have 10% of the world reserves.)
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Comment #15 posted by FoM on January 21, 2006 at 22:10:04 PT
Oh Canada
Afterburner I will do that for you. Good Luck!Official Lyrics of O Canada!O Canada!Our home and native land!True patriot love in all thy sons command.With glowing hearts we see thee rise,The True North strong and free!From far and wide,O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.God keep our land glorious and free!O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.Oh Canada: http://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/cpsc-ccsp/sc-cs/o-cda.ra
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Comment #14 posted by The GCW on January 21, 2006 at 22:03:24 PT
Colorado; BoulderWeekly and truth or lack of it...
I like the Boulder Weekly.This is perspective that's off topic or is it?T4H2C0UGritty realityby Pamela White
(letters boulderweekly.com) Few people realize that I've served hard time in prison or that I once lived homeless on the streets of Paris and Barcelona. Fewer still know I was recruited into U.S. military intelligence, given a .357 SIG Sauer, and tasked with spying on the Soviets while still a teenager. And no one outside the close-knit community of the Danish aristocracy knows I'm related to Her Majesty, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark. That's because I haven't yet published my memoirs. But, inspired by James Frey and his book A Million Little Pieces, I've already starting writing what is sure to be a New York Times bestseller, full of the sort of gritty realism and angst that will inspire readers and fulfill my life's ambition—a gig on Oprah. Frey's book, which sold 1.77 million copies in large part due to Oprah picking it last September for her famous book club, tells the story of his remarkable redemption from a lifetime of drinking, drug addiction and street violence. According to Frey, he was a criminal badass who in one crack-induced incident hit a cop with his car, fought with police and landed in prison. At one time, Frey writes, he was a wanted man in three states. "I was a bad guy," he said during his Oct. 26 appearance on Oprah. Memory is a funny thing. Although Frey says his book tells his life story to the best of his recollection, other people's best recollecting has them saying he made most of it up. When reporters from The Smoking Gun (TSG), an investigative website, researched Frey's past, they found that Frey's nonfiction account included outright fabrications and wild exaggerations. TSG tracked down cops in Ohio who recollected busting Frey, but not for smoking crack and assaulting one of their officers with his car. They say he was arrested for sitting drunk in his vehicle without a driver's license. As described in the TSG article, titled "The Man Who Conned Oprah," police records show that Frey didn't fight with police that night, but cooperated and was released on a $733 cash bond without serving time. Martha Stewart might well have spent more time behind bars than bad guy Frey. TSG quotes a New York Observer article as reporting that Frey had originally tried to sell the book as fiction, but was repeatedly rejected. He responded by reworking his manuscript and selling it as nonfiction for a $50,000 advance. No doubt this is exciting news for struggling fiction authors. In the wake of TSG's rather inconvenient reportage, one might expect Frey's publisher to launch an investigation or for Oprah, the woman whose book club made Frey famous, to feel a bit used and put out. One might even expect Frey's sales to plummet. But memoirists everywhere can relax. Random House told CNN that it is standing by its author and his book. Oprah told Larry King that she's disappointed by the controversy that now surrounds the book but that Frey's "message of redemption still resonates" with her. "What is relevant is that he was a drug addict who spent years in turmoil from the time he was 10 years old, drinking and tormenting himself and his parents, and stepped out of that history to be the man that he is today and to take that message to save other people and allow them to save themselves," she said. And if the man he is today happens to be a deceiver who exaggerated and fabricated his own life story to make a buck? If this message intended to save people happens to be built on a foundation of untruths? "To me it seems like much ado about nothing," Oprah told Larry King. And there you have it. We Americans are no longer as hung up on the truth as we used to be. We spend hours reading infotainment magazines that report the latest rumors about Brad and Angelina as fact. We get our hard news from anonymous blogs and watch implausible scenarios played out with deliberate and dramatic spontaneity on "reality" TV. Heck, we don't seem to care whether our president lied to start a war. So it won't matter that my hard time in prison was actually only 24 hours in Boulder County Jail served voluntarily as part of a journalism project. It won't raise eyebrows when people discover my years of homelessness on the streets of Paris and Barcelona was actually bad planning on one particularly adventuresome Interrail trip. Or that when I wrote "U.S. military intelligence," ".357 SIG Sauer," and "spying on the Soviets" I actually meant "Air Force scholarship," "ball-point pen" and "suggested I learn Russian." Of course the stuff about my being related to Her Majesty, Queen Margrethe is true. Well, I might not be related to her by blood, but I do know her quite well. OK, so I lived in Copenhagen about 30 minutes from the Royal Palace, which I saw through the bus window several times each week. But that's really just splitting hairs. If my exaggerations bother you, clearly you're too hung up on details, on mountains that should be molehills. It's the message that matters. And in the United States these days, the message has nothing to do with truth. It's all about entertainment. Make more popcorn, and get over it. http://www.boulderweekly.com/uncensored.html
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Comment #13 posted by afterburner on January 21, 2006 at 21:58:02 PT
On the Eve of the Canadian Election
To Canadian voters:
Does Canada really want to declare war on another generation (of its own people), or will higher consciousness and love rule the day?To World Wide Weed people: (If you believe in the power of prayer,) Pray for Canada that they may go forward in peace, not backward in fear and anger.
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Comment #12 posted by mayan on January 21, 2006 at 14:57:01 PT
Great!
Sorry, more unrelated but this is wonderful...Group Seeks Souter Eviction As Protest: 
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060121/ap_on_re_us/hotel_souterCan you say justice, Justice? We are taking our country back NOW! Here comes revolution. Absolution.They are very afraid...FDA Rule Would Create Pharmaceutical Dictatorship: 
http://rense.com/general69/bdnk.htm
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Comment #11 posted by mayan on January 21, 2006 at 14:46:54 PT
Uncle Sam's Cartel
The entire drug war is a scam. Any prohibitionists out there should know that you are supporting the biggest illicit drug dealers on the planet. Don't you feel very stupid for being duped or are you a part of the cartel also? Either way, you are pathetic and it will be a pleasure to watch you jump off of your sinking ship like the rats that you are...US Troops told to ignore Opium Crop that is now more than 1/2 Afghan GDP:
http://www.bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=9994Here's more on the fake Bin Laden tape...http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=4070LOL -- Fake Bin Laden Tape Plugs Book Against His Jihad In Afghan-Soviet War:
http://rense.com/general69/lol.htmTHE WAY OUT IS THE WAY IN...March For Truth N.Y.C. '06:
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/01/332307.shtmlWhat was missing for the past 17 years? by Karl Swarz:
http://www.yourbbsucks.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7825"MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT" 9/11 WAS AN "INSIDE JOB":
http://www.voxfux.com/archives/00000076.htm
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Comment #10 posted by ekim on January 21, 2006 at 14:32:17 PT
urda1
thanks mayan --you know its this place that allows everyone to grow:)
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Comment #9 posted by mayan on January 21, 2006 at 14:02:31 PT
ekim
You are awesome! Thanks for doing what you do.
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Comment #8 posted by FoM on January 21, 2006 at 11:16:37 PT
Graehstone 
Thanks! That's cute!
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Comment #7 posted by ekim on January 21, 2006 at 11:11:42 PT
please keep good thought for Jill Carol
http://lastonespeaks.blogspot.com/Saturday, January 21, 2006 
Mr. Wooldridge Goes to WashingtonYikes. I'm getting a late start today. Like an idiot I stayed up until 4:00am watching this ridiculous skydiving movie so I'm still waking up. Fortunately Howard Wooldridge checks in with his weekly newsletter and since it's not up on his page yet, I'll reproduce most of it for you. 
Surprise of the Week:
This morning I had a break between meetings and headed to the cafeteria for a coffee. Just before reaching a table, a tourist asked me about my ‘LONG RIDER’ buckle.** We chatted for a few minutes about the Misty trip and then he asked what I was doing. I explained my mission to make drug problems a medical issue and use as the cornerstone of drug policy, personal responsibility. I stated that my greatest obstacle seemed to be to get the politicians to say the 3 hardest words in English: I Was Wrong. He laughed heartily and said he had to agree with me. He then introduced himself as Congressman Mike Honda from California. We chatted a bit more, leaving his aide to take my business card and LEAP pamphlet.Rumor of the Week: With the growing scandal surrounding Jack Abramoff, look for photo ops of your Senators and Congressman eating lunch with zillionaire lobbyists at McDonalds. That will be proof positive that your politician is a good guy/gal and not taking lavish gifts!In addition to meeting w/ staffers from 38 congressional offices, I participated in a conference sponsored by Scott Ehlers and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. The group consisted of reps from 28 organizations. The group is focusing on assisting each with state issues from death penalty to innocence cases to drug prohibition.On Monday I made contact with a member of NOBLE (National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives) who acts as their rep on Capitol Hill. After a few minutes he was finishing my sentences and then paragraphs. After 45 minutes he promised to present to the NOBLE Board the proposal that they endorse the LEAP mission statement. Cross your fingers. Later that evening I met with Tara Andrews, Executive Director of Maryland Justice. I explained LEAP’s goals and pledged to help in anyway we could.
http://leap.cc/howard/newsletter010606.php
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Comment #6 posted by Graehstone on January 21, 2006 at 11:06:22 PT
OT: CN on Google ;)
I thought you might get a kick out of this. Check out the link.
http://www.logogle.com/ggl.php?hl=ja&lo=Cannabis+News
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Comment #5 posted by Max Flowers on January 21, 2006 at 10:15:42 PT
unkat27
Sadly, I think that it's something else. I think the Canadian judge is just saying that for the record, but knows the score. In other words, he's a monster who doesn't give the slightest s**t that Steve may die. He's getting pressure of some kind from the US and is behaving like a good little lapdog. Or even worse, he may just simply be a really mean person who doesn't like pot smokers, even ones who smoke to stay alive.
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Comment #4 posted by Toker00 on January 21, 2006 at 10:11:53 PT
Sativex, not Marinol
Why can't Kubby be involved with the Sativex study? A more prime candidate would be hard to find.Wage peace on war. END CANNABIS PROHIBITION NOW!
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Comment #3 posted by unkat27 on January 21, 2006 at 08:25:13 PT
Lack of communication between CA and US
"Judge Pinard, who was a federal cabinet minister under Pierre Trudeau, said it "remains speculative" that Mr. Kubby will be jailed in the United States, or that he will be denied adequate medical care.""Chris Cattran, the Placer County district attorney who prosecuted Mr. Kubby, did not return calls for comment yesterday. He was quoted earlier this month in a California newspaper as stating that Mr. Kubby will be detained once he crosses the border and is likely to spend more than 120 days in jail."Obviously there is little or no communication between these two parties. A lack of sincere communication between Canadian officials and US officials spells bad transaction. They should do better. It also spells fear on the part of the Canadian judge; the fear of protecting Kubby from the DEA vultures. Kubby needs a more compassionate judge.
Mad Krow's Drug War Pages
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Comment #2 posted by mayan on January 21, 2006 at 08:17:12 PT
A**hole
"Canadian law does not give a foreign national such as Steven Wynn Kubby a right to reside in Canada simply because he or she may be able to obtain some preferred medical treatment or other benefit in Canada," the judge said in a nine-page ruling.How about being able to stay alive? Is that a good enough reason to continue to reside in Canada???Judge Pinard, who was a federal cabinet minister under Pierre Trudeau, said it "remains speculative" that Mr. Kubby will be jailed in the United States, or that he will be denied adequate medical care.Speculative? Give me a friggin' break!!! Judge Pinard is the one who should be caged due to excessive stupidity! I hope Kubby makes it through this but if he doesn't some folks will have a lot to answer for and hell to pay!
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Comment #1 posted by FoM on January 21, 2006 at 07:50:35 PT
Snipped Source: LA Times
Medical Pot Advocate Loses Bid to Bar Deportation From Canada***By Eric Bailey, Times Staff WriterJanuary 21, 2006 SACRAMENTO — A judge in Canada on Friday rejected an eleventh-hour appeal by a California medical marijuana refugee trying to avoid deportation to the United States, five years after fleeing to avoid a short jail stint he called a death sentence. Steve Kubby, a former Laguna Beach resident who was a 1998 Libertarian candidate for governor and one of the authors of California's watershed medical marijuana law, suffers from a rare form of adrenal cancer that can cause blood-pressure spikes that his doctors say are controlled by smoking cannabis.   
Canadian Federal Justice Yvon Pinard ruled that Immigration Canada may now proceed with its order to return Kubby to the U.S. — along with his wife, Michele, and two young children — as soon as next week.Kubby was sentenced in March 2001 to four months in jail by a Placer County judge for possession of a peyote button and a hallucinogenic mushroom after jurors acquitted him of more serious charges that he was selling pot grown in his basement medical marijuana garden.The peyote and mushroom were in his possession, Kubby said, for an artist's rendering to be used in a book he wrote on the drug war while living in Olympic Valley, just north of Lake Tahoe.Amid wrangling with authorities over his sentence, Kubby moved with his family to British Columbia in May 2001.Snipped:Complete Article: http://tinyurl.com/bom3f
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