In February, we wrote about cancer patient Steve Kubby, a transplanted Calfornian and medical pot activist, who was seeking aslyum in Canada. Kubby, a former 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." Except medical pot. Then he got charged with a pot offense in California, convicted and ordered to do 120 days. He fled to British Columbia in 2001 to avoid the jail sentence. He filed a refugee claim to avoid being deported from Canada to the U.S., and sought asylum.

Kubby has now lost his bid for asylum.

Canada's Immigration and Refugee Board ruled that Steve Kubby did not have a well-founded fear of being persecuted or tortured, or that there was any risk to his life, if he returned to his home state of California. Kubby had said the 120-day jail term he was ordered to serve in California on minor drug charges would be a death sentence. He claimed if he did not smoke pot every hour, he would die from complications from adrenal cancer.

The opinion is here.