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A new scientific study is the "smoking gun" that proves the anti-pot crusade is a pack of lies and that medical marijuana works, says an American cancer patient claiming refugee status in Canada.
Steve Kubby is celebrating the recent publication of a study in the world-renowned science journal Nature showing cannabis shrinks certain cancerous tumours in mice by shutting off the blood supply and destroying cancer cells.
"I think it so clearly connects the dots and shows the cancer-fighting properties of cannabis," he said yesterday. "I've just reached a point in my life when I want to stand on the rooftops and shout to everyone, 'You are being lied to - this stuff really works and here's the science to prove it.'"
Kubby, 56, began experimental treatments last year at Edmonton's Cross Cancer Institute for a rare form of adrenal cancer. He lives in B.C. with his wife and two daughters.
He has a federal exemption allowing him to grow and smoke pot but is still awaiting an Immigration and Refugee Board decision on his application for refugee status.
Kubby argues he'll be persecuted for his pot use if forced to return to the U.S. The federal government's own doctor testified he'd likely die of a stroke or heart attack if deprived of medical pot for more than 24 to 48 hours, Kubby said.
The board's decision was expected by the end of this week but has been delayed a few weeks by further submissions on both sides.
Kubby is outraged that U.S. drug czar John Walters has been invited to address a Commons committee studying decriminalization. Walters has not indicated if he'll accept the invitation.
"I understand that the Canadian government is getting an extreme amount of pressure from the extremist Bush administration, but they have to know that they are being lied to," Kubby said.
The invitation is a "wonderful" chance for Canadians to uncover the American government's dishonesty about marijuana, said Richard Cowan, former director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), a U.S.-based lobby group. Cowan now lives in Canada.
"I think what they really need to do is have (Walters) go to Ottawa, get him on the record and then check the facts," he said. "This way they will see that they're being lied to."
Note: Had experimental treatments at Cross Cancer Institute.
Patient Touts Anti-Cancer Properties of Marijuana
Newshawk: Steve Kubby
Source: Edmonton Sun (CN AB)
Author: Lori Coolican, Edmonton Sun
Published: Monday, November 3, 2003
Contact: letters@edm.sunpub.com * Website
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Comment #2 posted by Ethan Russo MD on November 03, 2003
More Information: Steve is referring to an article I sent him. Try this link: https://...S5F326D66
If not, here is the abstract: https://...D10423D66
The article was by Manuel Guzman in Nature Reviews-Cancer. Basically, Nature has come out with a variety of new journals where they actually review important concepts and explain them. They are much more user friendly than standard articles in the respective fields that are far too technical for the person who is not a specialist.
This article examines the various ways in which THC and natural cannabinoids counteract cancer, but preserve normal cells.
Cancer occurs because cells become immortalized; they fail to heed normal signals to turn off growth. A normal function of remodelling in the body requires that cells die on cue. This is called apoptosis, or programmed cell death. That process fails to work in tumors. THC promotes its reappearance so that gliomas, leukemias, melanomas and other cell types will in fact heed the signals, stop dividing, and die.
But, that is not all. The other way that tumors grow is by ensuring that they are nourished: they send out signals to promote angiogenesis, the growth of new blood vessels. Cannabinoids turn off these signals as well. It is truly incredible, and elegant.
The real scandal is that the National Institute on Drug Abuse knew of the cancer-fighting potential of THC in 1975, and virtually no work at all was done on it for twenty years.
Pot Charges Adjourned in Alberta
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Drugs in The Car, and No One Owns Up
November 03, 2003
By Warren Richey, Staff Writer of The CSM
Source: Christian Science Monitor
Washington – When the US Supreme Court announces its decision in a case called Maryland v. Pringle sometime next year, it may become required reading for every American parent with a teenage child. That's because the court will decide whether police may arrest all passengers riding in a car in which hidden contraband is discovered. It doesn't matter that your son or daughter does not use narcotics or was unaware narcotics were in the car. The question being presented Monday in oral argument to the nation's highest court is whether people's mere presence in a car where someone has concealed drugs is enough to arrest everyone for possession of those drugs.
Read More... https://www.cannabisnews...17721.shtml
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"They say you can't legislate morality. Well, you certainly can."
John Ashcroft Chicago Tribune May 25, 1998
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Steve Kubby is celebrating the recent publication of a study in the world-renowned science journal Nature showing cannabis shrinks certain cancerous tumours in mice by shutting off the blood supply and destroying cancer cells.
"I think it so clearly connects the dots and shows the cancer-fighting properties of cannabis," he said yesterday. "I've just reached a point in my life when I want to stand on the rooftops and shout to everyone, 'You are being lied to - this stuff really works and here's the science to prove it.'"
Kubby, 56, began experimental treatments last year at Edmonton's Cross Cancer Institute for a rare form of adrenal cancer. He lives in B.C. with his wife and two daughters.
He has a federal exemption allowing him to grow and smoke pot but is still awaiting an Immigration and Refugee Board decision on his application for refugee status.
Kubby argues he'll be persecuted for his pot use if forced to return to the U.S. The federal government's own doctor testified he'd likely die of a stroke or heart attack if deprived of medical pot for more than 24 to 48 hours, Kubby said.
The board's decision was expected by the end of this week but has been delayed a few weeks by further submissions on both sides.
Kubby is outraged that U.S. drug czar John Walters has been invited to address a Commons committee studying decriminalization. Walters has not indicated if he'll accept the invitation.
"I understand that the Canadian government is getting an extreme amount of pressure from the extremist Bush administration, but they have to know that they are being lied to," Kubby said.
The invitation is a "wonderful" chance for Canadians to uncover the American government's dishonesty about marijuana, said Richard Cowan, former director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), a U.S.-based lobby group. Cowan now lives in Canada.
"I think what they really need to do is have (Walters) go to Ottawa, get him on the record and then check the facts," he said. "This way they will see that they're being lied to."
Note: Had experimental treatments at Cross Cancer Institute.
Patient Touts Anti-Cancer Properties of Marijuana
Newshawk: Steve Kubby
Source: Edmonton Sun (CN AB)
Author: Lori Coolican, Edmonton Sun
Published: Monday, November 3, 2003
Contact: letters@edm.sunpub.com * Website
Related Articles & Web Sites
“When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold to the masses over generations,
the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.”
- Dresden James
Marijuana News
The Drug War Refugees
Medical Marijuana User Claims Persecution in US
Refugee Hearing for Pot Advocate
Pot Shrinks Tumors - Government Knew in '74
Pot Shrinks Tumors: Government Knew in 74
Comment #2 posted by Ethan Russo MD on November 03, 2003
More Information: Steve is referring to an article I sent him. Try this link: https://...S5F326D66
If not, here is the abstract: https://...D10423D66
The article was by Manuel Guzman in Nature Reviews-Cancer. Basically, Nature has come out with a variety of new journals where they actually review important concepts and explain them. They are much more user friendly than standard articles in the respective fields that are far too technical for the person who is not a specialist.
This article examines the various ways in which THC and natural cannabinoids counteract cancer, but preserve normal cells.
Cancer occurs because cells become immortalized; they fail to heed normal signals to turn off growth. A normal function of remodelling in the body requires that cells die on cue. This is called apoptosis, or programmed cell death. That process fails to work in tumors. THC promotes its reappearance so that gliomas, leukemias, melanomas and other cell types will in fact heed the signals, stop dividing, and die.
But, that is not all. The other way that tumors grow is by ensuring that they are nourished: they send out signals to promote angiogenesis, the growth of new blood vessels. Cannabinoids turn off these signals as well. It is truly incredible, and elegant.
The real scandal is that the National Institute on Drug Abuse knew of the cancer-fighting potential of THC in 1975, and virtually no work at all was done on it for twenty years.
Pot Charges Adjourned in Alberta
https://www.cannabinoid.com/wwwboard/politics/binaries/29/29876.gif
Drugs in The Car, and No One Owns Up
November 03, 2003
By Warren Richey, Staff Writer of The CSM
Source: Christian Science Monitor
Washington – When the US Supreme Court announces its decision in a case called Maryland v. Pringle sometime next year, it may become required reading for every American parent with a teenage child. That's because the court will decide whether police may arrest all passengers riding in a car in which hidden contraband is discovered. It doesn't matter that your son or daughter does not use narcotics or was unaware narcotics were in the car. The question being presented Monday in oral argument to the nation's highest court is whether people's mere presence in a car where someone has concealed drugs is enough to arrest everyone for possession of those drugs.
Read More... https://www.cannabisnews...17721.shtml
https://www.cannabinoid.com/wwwboard/politics/binaries/32/32734.gif
"They say you can't legislate morality. Well, you certainly can."
John Ashcroft Chicago Tribune May 25, 1998
MADD, Police Groups Slam Proposed Pot Law
Cops, MADD Jointly Urge Ottawa To Stop Pot Bill
https://boards.marihemp.com/boards/culture/media/4/4237.gif