POT USER TOLD TO LEAVE CANADA

(CP) After losing his last legal challenge to stay in Canada,
medical-marijuana advocate Steve Kubby has been told to leave the
country by Thursday.

A Federal Court judge rejected Kubby's last appeal to stay in Canada.

His wife Michele told the judge her husband would die if he had to
return to California to serve out a jail sentence. Kubby has adrenal
cancer and uses marijuana to ease the symptoms.

Before Kubby came to Canada he was convicted for having a small
amount of drugs and sentenced to house arrest.

Kubby and his wife now say he would have to serve his sentence in
jail, and that officials at any U.S. jail wouldn't allow him to smoke his pot.

Kubby lost his legal bid last week to stop his deportation by
Immigration Canada. The family moved to B.C. in 2001. Kubby said
yesterday he is trying to find a way to appeal the Federal Court ruling.