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http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/showflat.php?Number=1203672
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Update about Steve's Condition
By: Michele Kubby
Unfortunately I missed Steve's call today because of an interview. No problem, Steve called our Auburn contacts and described the circumstances of his day.
It seems that Placer has moved him from the infirmary to solitary confinement. He has a cell all to himself and he was freezing. Again they are ignoring his pleas for a blanket and have left him to shiver and chatter in a cold cell. Remember, this is in the foothills of the Western Sierra. It is very cold and the cold is a damp cold. I'm afraid he will be looking at getting pneumonia soon if he is not warmed up.
This is exactly the cruel and inhumane treatment I described to Canadian officials, that would happen if Steve were returned to the US. I also told them repeatedly that Steve would be immediately arrested upon his arrival at SFO, which is exactly what happened. Of course the Canadian government officials that judged our case
responded to my pleas for protection from this grim future by turning a blind eye, ignoring evidence, and refusing to do the right thing when they could. They cannot see what they have done, for to do so would have to mean that they were wrong and have made a terrible life threatening mistake.
This, of course, is exactly the position that Placer is in. To admit that they are wrong about the life saving properties of cannabis is impossible. Better to test this theory out and see if it can really save a life.
Steve always liked to give us good news. So, the good news about today is that the Marinol is helping to control the rectal bleeding he was experiencing as well as the blood pressure. Of course Marinol does not contain the catacholimes [Michele probably meant cannabinoids] present in the whole plant, and these have been shown by Dr. Guzman of Spain to have the properties of inhibiting a protein necessary for blood vessel development, which results in the cancer tissue being denied nutrients as well as teaching cancer cells to die.
With Marinol, Steve is only partly protected. Because Marinol uses only the THC active portion of the cannabis plant, his tumors are now free to grow again. This type of tumor is particularly apt to grow into the spinal cord, brain and organs.
Now, the bad news is that Placer has not taken his blood pressure since he arrived yesterday. Steve must be on a constant monitor in order to gauge the severity of his medical condition. At any time, his blood pressure can skyrocket. Being freezing cold stresses the body which releases more chemicals which worsens the danger.
This is a game of chicken and Steve doesn't have much of a chance. He has been stripped of all rights, including his right to the special diet he needs. Steve can have a blood pressure attack from eating a bar of chocolate or eating foods with MSG in them. In addition, most low quality meats, like those served in jails, are full of steroids, which are basically food for Steve's tumor to eat and then make even more adrenaline chemicals to rack his body. Unless he can eat his very limited diet of tofu, dill, garlic, and hemp oil salad, plus his oatmeal cookies, he is going stimulate the tumor even more to produce adrenaline chemicals.
A human's right to care for his or her body as he or she choses, should be recognized by governments. What we put into our bodies to heal us and keep us balanced or relieve our pain, is our right. Especially if that person is suffering from a serious and rare type of cancer.
This all brings me to the most disturbing news of the day: Steve asked our friend to relay that Placer deputies have forced/ intimidated him into signing a waiver which states that Steve absolves Placer County of any responsibility if he dies in their care, because he has refused to take conventional, alpha and beta blocker blood pressure medication.
The problem with this medication, is that it only protects Steve from a certain level of blood pressure attacks. If Steve's body decides to raise his blood pressure over the protection of the alpha and beta blockers, then it will be like Mt. Vesuvius erupting and unless he is in a hospital with access to an IV drip, he will not get the blood pressure medication he would need to control the life threatening blood pressures wreaking his body.
Placer County is playing with fire. I pray that they educate themselves on what happens when fire gets out of control.
Your phone call, e-mail or fax could save us. Your voice could be the one that make the difference and saves our family!
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http://www.kubby.com
Update about Steve's Condition
By: Michele Kubby
Unfortunately I missed Steve's call today because of an interview. No problem, Steve called our Auburn contacts and described the circumstances of his day.
It seems that Placer has moved him from the infirmary to solitary confinement. He has a cell all to himself and he was freezing. Again they are ignoring his pleas for a blanket and have left him to shiver and chatter in a cold cell. Remember, this is in the foothills of the Western Sierra. It is very cold and the cold is a damp cold. I'm afraid he will be looking at getting pneumonia soon if he is not warmed up.
This is exactly the cruel and inhumane treatment I described to Canadian officials, that would happen if Steve were returned to the US. I also told them repeatedly that Steve would be immediately arrested upon his arrival at SFO, which is exactly what happened. Of course the Canadian government officials that judged our case
responded to my pleas for protection from this grim future by turning a blind eye, ignoring evidence, and refusing to do the right thing when they could. They cannot see what they have done, for to do so would have to mean that they were wrong and have made a terrible life threatening mistake.
This, of course, is exactly the position that Placer is in. To admit that they are wrong about the life saving properties of cannabis is impossible. Better to test this theory out and see if it can really save a life.
Steve always liked to give us good news. So, the good news about today is that the Marinol is helping to control the rectal bleeding he was experiencing as well as the blood pressure. Of course Marinol does not contain the catacholimes [Michele probably meant cannabinoids] present in the whole plant, and these have been shown by Dr. Guzman of Spain to have the properties of inhibiting a protein necessary for blood vessel development, which results in the cancer tissue being denied nutrients as well as teaching cancer cells to die.
With Marinol, Steve is only partly protected. Because Marinol uses only the THC active portion of the cannabis plant, his tumors are now free to grow again. This type of tumor is particularly apt to grow into the spinal cord, brain and organs.
Now, the bad news is that Placer has not taken his blood pressure since he arrived yesterday. Steve must be on a constant monitor in order to gauge the severity of his medical condition. At any time, his blood pressure can skyrocket. Being freezing cold stresses the body which releases more chemicals which worsens the danger.
This is a game of chicken and Steve doesn't have much of a chance. He has been stripped of all rights, including his right to the special diet he needs. Steve can have a blood pressure attack from eating a bar of chocolate or eating foods with MSG in them. In addition, most low quality meats, like those served in jails, are full of steroids, which are basically food for Steve's tumor to eat and then make even more adrenaline chemicals to rack his body. Unless he can eat his very limited diet of tofu, dill, garlic, and hemp oil salad, plus his oatmeal cookies, he is going stimulate the tumor even more to produce adrenaline chemicals.
A human's right to care for his or her body as he or she choses, should be recognized by governments. What we put into our bodies to heal us and keep us balanced or relieve our pain, is our right. Especially if that person is suffering from a serious and rare type of cancer.
This all brings me to the most disturbing news of the day: Steve asked our friend to relay that Placer deputies have forced/ intimidated him into signing a waiver which states that Steve absolves Placer County of any responsibility if he dies in their care, because he has refused to take conventional, alpha and beta blocker blood pressure medication.
The problem with this medication, is that it only protects Steve from a certain level of blood pressure attacks. If Steve's body decides to raise his blood pressure over the protection of the alpha and beta blockers, then it will be like Mt. Vesuvius erupting and unless he is in a hospital with access to an IV drip, he will not get the blood pressure medication he would need to control the life threatening blood pressures wreaking his body.
Placer County is playing with fire. I pray that they educate themselves on what happens when fire gets out of control.
Your phone call, e-mail or fax could save us. Your voice could be the one that make the difference and saves our family!
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Quote: Excerpt below is from this ASA page: http://safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=1804 Quote: See this wikipedia page too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Kubby -------------------- Copy this!: Edited by eco2man (Sat Jan 28 2006 11:08 PM) Post Extras: | |||||||||||||
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Photo is in StarPhoenix, Canada article from Jan 27, 2006. web page http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/uploads/1204396-kubbys.jpg  Medical-marijuana user Steve Kubby and wife Michele wait at Vancouver International Airport yesterday [Friday, Jan. 26, 2006] before Steve is deported back to California on a drug charge. Photograph by : Jason Payne, The Province It is amazing how evil governments can be, and how the media just ignores alternative cancer therapies that work. Most of the media still aren't getting the message that Steve Kubby has survived for decades with this cancer, and should have been dead long ago. Corporate rule of the media is so ingrained that anything that challenges corporate medicine goes down the memory hole. Just like Steve Kubby is put down in a hole. -------------------- Copy this!: Post Extras: | |||||||||||||
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Attachment 4 is part way down this web page: http://www.kubby.com/ComplaintGrandJury.OC.html ----------------------------------- ATTACHMENT -4- DR. DeQUATTRO LETTER TO SUPERI0R COURT ----------------------------------- Dr. Vincent DeQuattro M.D., F.A.C.C., F.A. C.P Professor of Medicine USC Medical Center Director Hypertension Chief Hypertension Diagnostic Laboratory Division of Cardiology February 4, 1999 Judge of Superior Court Department 14 P.O. Box 5669 Tahoe City, CA 96146 RE: STEVE KUBBY - MARIJUANA THERAPY FOR MEDICAL MANAGEMENT OF MALIGNANT PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA Dear Judge: I am writing this letter in behalf of my patient, Steve Kubby, who was diagnosed with malignant pheochromocytoma over 15 years ago. At that time, I was taking care of him with maximum medical therapy including the drugs dibenzline and alphamethyltyrosine. His tumor had spread to his liver at that time. I referred him to Ann Arbor, where Dr. James Sisson treated him with radiotherapeutic doses of the radionuclide MIBG. Then, as now, that was experimental therapy. I lost Steve to follow up over the past 10-12 years. I first noted his survival when I received my voter pamphlet in November 1998. I contacted him to determine how it was that he had survived all these years. He told me that he was treating himself with the advice of his physicians in Northern California with marijuana, and has been taking no other medical therapy for several years. I also contacted Dr. Sisson at Ann Arbor - he told me that every patient other than Steve, with Steve's condition, had died during this interval of time. Steve was the only survivor. I am convinced by Steve's blood pressure response during his recent incarceration when he was without marijuana therapy, that he still harbors a malignant pheochromocytoma. In some amazing fashion, this medication has not only controlled the symptoms of the pheochromocytoma, but in my view, has arrested growth. I strongly endorse that you consider supplying Steve with sufficient supplies of his specific marijuana product in order to control his life threatening disease. Further, over the next few weeks, I propose to evaluate in a scientific and conventional medically approved manner, Steve's condition; to evaluate his response to marijuana therapy, and to evaluate his future need for treatment. I have spent most of my adult life in the study and treatment of pheochromocytoma. Fortunately, it occurs only about once in 1 million people. Presently in Los Angeles, we have 7-10 patients who have pheochromocytoma. Of the five under my care presently, three have malignant pheochromocytoma. Each one is at the end of their line after having had maximum conventional therapy. If in fact marijuana therapy has improved and extended Steve's life, it may also be a terrific boon to our present patient's and their families. Further, your Honor, please consider the consequences of Steve's condition not being controlled. His tumor is manufacturing large quantities of norepinephrine (noradrenaline), and possibly epinephrine (adrenaline). Either compound in minute quantities could kill him instantly by causing sudden cardiac death due to arrhythmia, sudden cardiac death due to acute myocardial infarction, or sudden death due to cerebral hemorrhage or cerebral vascular occlusion. Faith healers would term Steve's existence these past 10 -15 years as nothing short of a miracle. In my view, this miracle, in part, is related to the therapy with marijuana. Marijuana contains many substances with can neutralize the effects of epinephrine and norepinephrine on the heart and vascular tissue. Several are potent antioxidants like vitamins C and vitamin E. I have offered Steve extensive evaluation at our Medical Center to determine in a scientific manner the extent of his ailment and the mechanisms by which his therapy has held his disease at bay for all these many years. This is not only for Steve's benefit, but to seek the potential for benefit to many patients around the world. Thank you for your kind consideration, and I look forward to hearing from you. Best personal wishes in your deliberation. Sincerely yours, s/Vincent DeQuattro, M.D., F.A.C.C., F.A.C.P. Professor of Medicine -------------------- Copy this!: Post Extras: | |||||||||||||
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Some more efforts to nail down some more dates for Steve Kubby's medical history. Excerpt below is from a complaint submitted to the Orange County, California grand jury: http://www.kubby.com/ComplaintGrandJury.OC.html ---------------------------------------------- II. BACKGROUND ---------------------------------------------- WHEREAS: Steve Kubby is a legally disabled American who is qualified under the definitions of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Kubby has been certified by the United States Social Security Administration as medically disabled since 1980. Kubby was last re-certified as medically disabled in 1999. Kubby's disability is such that he can suffer a heart attack, stroke, or death anytime he is not protected by medical marijuana. Kubby can provide extensive medical research, performed by scientists and physicians at the University of Southern California which confirms that medical marijuana, which is the only medicine he uses, is successfully treating his disease, malignant pheochromocytoma. [See attachment -4-] WHEREAS: Kubby's medical disability is real and life-threatening. Although so rare that most physicians never encounter a case of pheochromocytoma - even casually - they all know about it because its spectacular effects are legendary in medical school. "Pheos" produce norepinephrine; and the result is explosive elevations in blood pressure which produce blinding headaches, lethal strokes and heart attacks. Benign varieties are most common and can be successfully removed if the diagnosis is made beforehand and the patient protected by medication during delicate surgery. Malignant pheos, like Kubby's are something else; because they have already spread, complete surgical removal is impossible; nor do they respond to chemotherapy or radiation. They don't grow very aggressively, but they continue to release deadly showers of norepinephrine and almost all patients succumb to a horrible, emaciated death within a few years. Only Kubby has survived and continues to survive, thanks to the unique properties of medical marijuana. -------------------- Copy this!: Post Extras: | |||||||||||||
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Comment #21 posted by ElPatricio on January 13, 2006 at 18:25:55 PT: http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21482.shtml#21 Thanks, BGreen Thank you for informing Cannabis News readers about Dr. Connors' expert knowledge of Steve Kubby's rare medical condition, compared to the ill-informed Dr. Fred Harvey, who was quoted in an Auburn Journal article. As a former city editor [Pat McCartney] of that Placer County newspaper, who also attended much of Steve Kubby's trial in 2000-01, I can add more medical information about Steve's condition from a physician who first examined Steve more than 20 years ago. Dr. Vincent DeQuattro was a professor of medicine at the busy USC Medical Center in Los Angeles, where he directed the hypertension unit and became a leading specialist in malignant pheochromocytoma, or adrenal cancer. He wasn't the first physician to diagnose Steve's condition, but he had seen more than 100 other patients with the 1-in-a-million illness, making him one of world's experts. When Steve saw DeQuattro in the mid-1980s, Steve's high-blood-pressure symptoms had returned, and his tumor had spread to his liver. Previous surgeries to remove the tumors had initially appeared to work. In benign adrenal cancer, the tumors never return, but in Steve's case they did. Steve Kubby was part of a cohort of malignant adrenal cancer cases that DeQuattro referred to the Mayo Clinic for experimental therapy. He lost track of Steve and, as he testified at his trial, assumed he had died along with the rest of the group he'd sent to the Mayo. After Steve and Michele Kubby's 1999 arrest, DeQuattro conducted a battery of tests on Steve, and concluded that Steve still had tumors, and that he had potentially fatal blood levels of adrenaline. As he testified at the trial, if you put a quart of Steve's blood in someone else, they could die. Incidentally, and because it's never been published elsewhere, Dr. DeQuattro tested hair samples of each Kubby for the presence of any drug except cannabis, and found nothing. That supports the Kubbys' contention that they did not know about the peyote buds found in the guest bedroom. Anyhow, Placer County prosecutors appeared convinced that Kubby did not have have malignant form of adrenal cancer. They instead took the word of an untrained jail matron that Steve was faking his symptoms while in custody. At the trial, they tried to have their expert medical witness, Dr. Rees Jones, testify that cannabis had nothing to do with Kubby's survival of a disease that usually kills in less than 10 years and has no effective treatment. The medicine patients take to control the high blood pressure turns them into zombies, and if they are lucky enough to survive more than 10 years, the side effects include Parkinson-like symptoms, DeQuattro told me. By the way, expert witness Rees Jones is well known for his anti-marijuana views, and has taught at classes for the California Narcotics Officers Association. Even after the trial, Placer County prosecutors argued in court pleadings that Kubby was merely a recreational potsmoker whose life was not at risk if he was jailed without access to cannabis for his medicine. They said even his doctor's tests showed that pot had no effect on Kubby's blood pressure. When I shared that informatiion with DeQuattro in an e-mail, he was livid. "THAT IS THE OPPOSITE OF MY TESTIMONY." I quoted to DeQuattro from the Placer County brief: "Dr. DeQuattro did conceded [sic] that the defendant may not be currently suffering from malignant pheochromocitoma. The defendants [sic] motion to terminate probation should be denied." DeQuattro's response: "WHY DO THESE MISERABLE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE PEOPLE DISTORT THE FACTS SO WILLFULLY AND THEN CAST STONES.???" Dr. DeQuattro and I exchanged e-mails a week or so before he left on vacation in Hawaii. While there, he died in a snorkeling accident. So, as I told the Refugee Board in Vancouver, those were his last words about Steve Kubby's medical condition. It just goes to show you how a belief in the war on drugs can predispose otherwise reasonable people to remain ignorant and believe hogwash rather than believe anything favorable about cannabis. Sadly, it can also destroy their humanity. Pat McCartney Auburn, California -------end---------- -------------------- Copy this!: Post Extras: | |||||||||||||
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From the 2000 complaint to the Orange County, California grand jury. http://www.kubby.com/ComplaintGrandJury.OC.html ------------------------------------- ATTACHMENT -5- CANNABINOID INHIBITION OF NORADRENALINE ------------------------------------- Br J Pharmacol 1999 Jan;126(2):457-66 Effect of the cannabinoid receptor agonist WIN55212-2 on sympathetic cardiovascular regulation. Niederhoffer N, Szabo B Pharmakologisches Institut der Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat, Freiburg i. Br., Germany. 1. The aim of the present study was to analyse the cardiovascular actions of the synthetic CB1/CB2 cannabinoid receptor agonist WIN55212-2, and specifically to determine its sites of action on sympathetic cardiovascular regulation. 2. Pithed rabbits in which the sympathetic outflow was continuously stimulated electrically or which received a pressor infusion of noradrenaline were used to study peripheral prejunctional and direct vascular effects, respectively. For studying effects on brain stem cardiovascular regulatory centres, drugs were administered into the cisterna cerebellomedullaris in conscious rabbits. Overall cardiovascular effects of the cannabinoid were studied in conscious rabbits with intravenous drug administration. 3. In pithed rabbits in which the sympathetic outflow was continuously electrically stimulated, intravenous injection of WIN55212-2 (5, 50 and 500 microg kg(-1)) markedly reduced blood pressure, the spillover of noradrenaline into plasma and the plasma noradrenaline concentration, and these effects were antagonized by the CB1 cannabinoid receptor-selective antagonist SR141716A. The hypotensive and the sympathoinhibitory effect of WIN55212-2 was shared by CP55940, another mixed CB1/CB2 cannabinoid receptor agonist, but not by WIN55212-3, the enantiomer of WIN55212-2, which lacks affinity for cannabinoid binding sites. WIN55212-2 had no effect on vascular tone established by infusion of noradrenaline in pithed rabbits. 4. Intracisternal application of WIN55212-2 (0.1, 1 and 10 microg kg(-1)) in conscious rabbits increased blood pressure and the plasma noradrenaline concentration and elicited bradycardia; this latter effect was antagonized by atropine. 5. In conscious animals, intravenous injection of WIN55212-2 (5 and 50 microg kg(-1)) caused bradycardia, slight hypotension, no change in the plasma noradrenaline concentration, and an increase in renal sympathetic nerve firing. The highest dose of WIN55212-2 (500 microg kg(-1)) elicited hypotension and tachycardia, and sympathetic nerve activity and the plasma noradrenaline concentration declined. 6. The results obtained in pithed rabbits indicate that activation of CB1 cannabinoid receptors leads to marked peripheral prejunctional inhibition of noradrenaline release from postganglionic sympathetic axons. Intracisternal application of WIN55212-2 uncovered two effects on brain stem cardiovascular centres: sympathoexcitation and activation of cardiac vagal fibres. The highest dose of systemically administered WIN55212-2 produced central sympathoinhibition; the primary site of this action is not known. -------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------- ATTACHMENT -6- CANNABINOIDS FOUND TO SUPPRESS PHEOS ----------------------------------------- The DeQuattro Study includes a University of Toronto study which shows cannabinoids suppress pheochromocytoma cells: Cell Bio Int 1996 Feb:20(2):147-57 Study Cannabinoid enantiomer action on the cytoarchitecture. Wilson RG Jr, Tahir SK, Mechoulam R, Zimmerman S, Zimmerman AM, Department of Zoology, University of Toronto, Canada, "...in general, cell viability and cell proliferation were suppressed to a much greater extent with HU-210 on...PC-12 cells." [HU-210 is a synthetic cannabinoid and PC-12 are actual pheochrochytoma cells, just like those in Steve Kubby.] ----------end------- -------------------- Copy this!: Post Extras: | |||||||||||||
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