Richard Cowan has written several pieces on the Kubbys lately-
http://marijuananews.com/news.php3?sid=874 and
http://marijuananews.com/news.php3?sid=872One of the best pieces Richard Cowan has ever written is here-
http://www.marijuananews.com/news.php3?sid=717 He is explaining new research that explains why cannabis is responsible for keeping Steve Kubby alive. It starts with this as the opening paragraph - "In layman’s terms, medicinal substances and treatments generally fall into three categories, palliative, therapeutic and curative."
Cannabis has two keywords that link it to fighting cancer. It prevents angiogenesis which means a cancer tumor does not develop a blood supply. The other keyword besides angiogenesis is apoptosis. A cancer cell should find itself defective and self-destruct, but of course if they self-destructed properly you would not have cancer. Research has already shown that cannabis triggers the proper self-destruction (programmed cell death)known as apoptosis and now that the medical world is beating on the truth of cannabis as medicine after decades of prohibitionist obstruction it will all be made more clear.
But the punchline is this in relation to Kubby and cancer and cannabis- Cannabis cures death. Of course it is more accurate to say it prevents it in Kubby's case and when he was arrested in Canada and thrown in the slammer his health deteriorated rapidly without cannabis. In all seriousness, I do not see how the US can keep him alive if they jail him and do not give him cannabis. One of the bullshit statements the prohibitionist like to give for denying cannabis as medicine is that there is already something for everything that cannabis can do although cannabis is no better than dirt for helping with anything. To be medicine by FDA standards it only has to be more helpful than a placebo for only one thing such as going to sleep, but of course cannabis will not help you sleep any more than dirt will. But the whole thing fights the great mantra of medicine that says "First, do no harm." If the great mantra of medicine were followed cannabis would be used first as it is all but benign which is not true of most pharmaceuticals, including the addictive opiates. In the link at the bottom of this piece the doctor will say that 15 years of use did no harm to Kubby.
Well, cannabis does things that nothing else can as seen with Steve Tuck and his back injuries. There is also nothing that is going to keep Steve Kubby alive when they take his cannabis away from him, and you would think that somebody is really making a big mistake if they are trying to preserve the fraud of prohibition. But then again, prohibition is all one big mistake to start with.
Steve Kubby ran for governor of California as a Libertarian. His college roommate was Tommy Chong. He had a young wife that fought like all hell to defend them in Canada representing them in court herself with a little help from an old man that was a legal assistant. She presented the case that the possession and cultivation laws are dead in Canada before the highest appeal court in British Columbia herself. I wish I knew how the court answered that as I believe the same as her that the courts ruled them unconstitutional, but the response has not surfaced at the medpot yahoodiscuss forums. They have two young children.
A person interested in this should also read these writings by Richard Cowan-
http://www.marijuananews.com/marijuananews/cowan/prominent_cancer_specialist_says.htm and
http://www.marijuananews.com/news.php3?sid=412