POT ACTIVIST FIGHTS RETURN TO U.S.

The wife of medical marijuana activist Steve Kubby told Federal Court
Justice Sandra Simpson that returning her husband to the U.S. to serve a
prison term would be a death sentence.

Represented by his wife, Michele, Kubby was in court in Vancouver Thursday
appealing a 2003 decision of the Immigration and Refugee Board that denied
him and his family refugee status.

Kubby, 58, suffers from malignant pheochromocytoma, a rare adrenal cancer.
"It's only because of cannabis I've survived," he said. His wife said he
would be denied the marijuana he needs to live if returned to the U.S.