MEDICAL MARIJUANA ADVOCATE ORDERED TO LEAVE CANADA

VANCOUVER (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 the country.

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 marijuana.