Cancer patient Steve Kubby, a transplanted Calfornian and medpot practitioner is begging Canada for asylum, claiming U.S. drug warriors are out of control.

Kubby and three fellow Californian medical marijuana activists with "arrest warrants outstanding, prosecutions pending, jail terms unfulfilled" in the U.S., and threatened with deportation or extradition, have filed suit in Canada seeking asylum as political refugees. A hearing will be held in March to determine whether they can stay in Canada or must be returned to the U.S.

Kubby, a one-time California Libertarian gubernatorial candidate, was diagnosed with malignant adrenal gland cancer in the early 1970's. "In the span of a few years, he underwent four surgeries, chemotherapy and radiation. Nothing seemed to stop his steady decline. Unchecked, doctors say adrenal cancer usually spreads through the vital organs. Kubby says he was told he shouldn't expect to live beyond five years, and likely would die of a heart attack or stroke."

"Marijuana became his life preserver quite by accident, he says, with the help of a soon-famous friend, a pre-law student named Cheech who became half of "Cheech and Chong. "

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Then, check out the Kubby family's home in Home is Where the Hash Is, and learn about Pot-TV, an Internet streaming video site run out of Vancouver’s B.C. Marijuana Party headquarters. The Kubbys tape a few programs a week for the site from their home--usually containing news updates about various busts and legal cases. This work pays the Kubbys about $25k a year and allows them to have Canadian work visas.

Kubby has a medical marijuana exemption from Health Canada that allows him to travel anywhere in Canada with 360 grams of pot--that's enough to fill a one lb. coffee can. He is also allowed to possess six pounds in his home and grow 59 plants.

"It is truly a North American paradox: This man U.S. law officers called a drug trafficker is considered by Canadian health officials simply to be a very sick fellow."