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Steve Kubby: Marijuana
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Steve Kubby, 59, is an avid skier and outdoors person, Steve is especially concerned with health care issues because of his own personal experience as a cancer survivor. Twenty three years ago he was diagnosed with adrenal cancer and given six months to live. Crediting medical marijuana, inner determination, and the love and support of family and friends, Steve has become the first person to ever survive so long with his form of cancer.
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Like some other former, current or likely presidential candidates, Steve Kubby is a cancer patient. As a matter of fact, he is the longest-surviving known victim of malignant phenochromocytoma, a rare form of adrenal cancer with a 100% fatality rate within five years. Steve has lived with malignant phenochromocytoma for more than 30 years, and his condition remains under control … thanks to medical marijuana.
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Steve Kubby, a libertarian activist who fled to Canada to avoid being harassed for using marijuana in the U.S., has been deported. He needs the marijuana to treat malignant pheochromocytoma, a normally fatal condition...and is unlikely to get that marijuana in an American jail. The hammeroftruth site reports:
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As a founder and director of the American Medical Marijuana Association, Steve Kubby has continued to fight for Americans’ right to protect their health without facing political persecution. In that role, he has negotiated with federal regulators, including the Attorney General of the United States, on behalf of patient rights.
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Medical marijuana refugee Steve Kubby was arrested by a dozen police immediately upon landing at the San Francisco airport and whisked off to the Redwood City jail. A welcoming party of supporters and media were disappointed to discover that he had been spirited away out of sight through a back entrance.
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Steve Kubby is the only 2008 presidential candidate who's played a key role in passing pro-freedom legislation, then gone to court -- and to jail -- defending that legislation. Since the passage of Proposition 215 in 1996, twelve states have adopted "compassionate use" laws to protect patients whose ailments require them to use medical marijuana.
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