MEDICAL MARIJUANA CRUSADERS ARRESTED

VANCOUVER -- Two high-profile American advocates of medicinal marijuana,
who fled California on drug charges and took up residence on the Sunshine
Coast, were arrested by RCMP and immigration officials at their homes Tuesday.

Steve Kubby, 56, and Steve Tuck, 35, who came to Canada because they feared
they would be jailed in the U.S. under that country's harsher drug laws,
were arrested without incident and taken to the Sechelt RCMPdetachment.

They were later moved to Vancouver where they face an immigration hearing
on an allegation they entered Canada illegally.

Their wives are angry because their husbands were not allowed to take along
their medicinal marijuana with them.

"What's taken me aback is that my husband's life is in danger," Michele
Kubby said Tuesday.

"They wouldn't let him medicate before he left."

She said her husband, who played a key role in a winning California
referendum that supported the use of pot for medicinal purposes, suffers
from a rare and always fatal cancer and the marijuana he's been taking
stops the disease from metabolizing.