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Pot-TV star still growing
by Pete Brady (12 Dec, 2002) Kubby radiant despite radiation
In the summer of 1998, a wild, bodacious, steamboat captain and potseed
fanatic named Breeder Steve shoved a book into my hands and told me that if I didn't
read it, he would throw me into the ocean behind his house.
The book was titled The Politics of Consciousness. Its author was Steve
Kubby, who now co-anchors a world-famous news show on Marc Emery's Pot-TV
Internetwork, along with his beautiful wife Michele.
I started reading Kubby's book, intrigued by its psychedelic cover and
revolutionary message, not wanting to swim in the Pacific courtesy of Spice of Life's
Breeder Steve, a brawny but cute Canadian who could have easily thrown me into the
salty froth with one hand tied behind his massive back.
Kubby's chapters were like sermons or songs: perfectly pitched, timed, and
delivered with punch after punch that shattered the illusions foisted on us by the
ruling elites while also warning of dark days to come.
Indeed, Kubby's book predicted with amazing accuracy the generally
downward slide of democracy, freedom, environment and human potential that has
occurred since 1998. Kubby was one of the first people to specifically predict that
the USA would lose its Bill of Rights, that dictators would take over, that nature
would be raped, criminalized, and murdered, that police would run rampant with
impunity, that the American constitution would be trashed, and that most Americans,
like sheep to a slaughter, would sit back and let it happen.
The Politics of Consciousness also contained Kubby's undefeatable
enthusiasm and optimism. He urged readers to expand their consciousness with cannabis
and other entheogens, and he gave many credible reasons and methods for standing up
for freedom. The book was a call to action, not a depressing summation of despair, and
when I finished reading it, I knew that I had to interview Steve Kubby and write about
him for my cherished readers in Cannabis Culture magazine.
I found out that Kubby lived a few hours away from me and got in my
battered VW van carrying my cameras and tape recorder, for the uphill drive to visit
the author at his spacious Lake Tahoe, California home.
He spoke of his incurable adrenal cancer, surgery, extreme skiing, his ski
magazine, his friendship with world-class scientists, his run for governor as a
candidate for the Libertarian Party, his lovely wife and child, and how marijuana
saved his life.
While we were talking, a couple of police officers were hiding in the snow
behind his home, staring at us with binoculars. They took pictures of me while I took
pictures of Kubby's medicinal pot plants and then watched me drive away.
A few days later, in early 1999, they ordered local cops to bust into my
home and arrest me for medical marijuana. Their goal was to get me to testify against
Kubby. I refused, so they took me to jail. Kubby and his wife had been arrested a few
days earlier. His garden was torn up, his computers stolen, his family brutalized, his
health endangered, his life made into torture chamber of poverty and worry. (CC #15,
Candidate Kubby)
Instead of caving in, plea bargaining, selling out, narking or running
away, the Kubbys stood and fought. They put the police and prosecutors on trial. They
rallied the media. They turned their trial into a medical pot educational seminar. In
the end, a jury Steve guilty of having a tiny mushroom stem and a smidgen of cacti,
but Kubby had made his point. Even though he had been growing hundreds of pot plants
at the time of his arrest, the jury did not find him or his wife guilty of any
marijuana crimes!
And after seeing that the USA was headed toward a totalitarianism where
his very right to medicine, even in California where he had helped legalize medpot in
1996, was under threat, he decided to move to Canada so he could live in a saner
country and work more closely with the world's most benevolent pot patriarch, Marc
Emery.
The cute Kubby couple were soon on television with their fun and campy
show featuring blonde bombshell Michele reading the news while Kubby interjects
comments that skewer drug warriors with pointed editorial comments.
No matter that Kubby was busted in April for having a grow room at his
Canadian home, or that he almost died in jail before Marc Emery came to pay his bail,
or that he endured months of medical hell after the bust because he was unable to
produce his own medicine, or that he has lost 30 pounds due to the recurrence of the
cancer that he had held in remission so long.
When I heard he was in the hospital recently receiving radiation
treatment, I worried tremendously. Kubby is a guy who fought the law and won. He is
one of few people to win a medpot exemption from the Canadian government, an exemption
that allows him to legally grow pot plants, to legally travel with marijuana, to
legally possess up to six pounds of dried bud. And yet, his tumors were on the move,
and people prayed for him.
When I talked to Kubby recently he was upbeat and reflective. He offered
copious praise for Marc Emery and for Emery's personal manager, communications
consultant and voice coach- Michelle Rainey. Without their help, he said, he and his
family might be homeless, or worse.
"They helped me survive jail, and they helped me get my Canadian medical
marijuana exemption," he said. "When I got that, I said a prayer of thanks because I
knew that never again could anybody steal my medicine from me or send me back to the
USA so that I would die in jail."
Kubby didn't want to talk about the past, or about the possibility that
the cancer that has dogged him for so long might be creeping in on him again. Instead,
he spoke proudly of a double cd-rom interactive educational marijuana cultivation
video he has just produced.
"This is a chapter by chapter video that provides all kinds of useful
information for growers, smokers, and freedom lovers, especially those in the United
States," Kubby said enthusiastically. "We've got specialty information you can't get
anywhere else on everything from seed sprouting to ensuring that almost all your seeds
sprout into females to increasing yield and growing totally clean herb. I've also
provided secret legal tips that will help people in the 'Police States of America'
protect themselves from fascists so they can have a reasonable assurance of growing
their own medicine without fear of going to jail."
In case anybody doubts Kubby's pot growing prowess, the video provides
vivid visual evidence that the man knows how to grow heady, potent bud.
"I've got plants with stalks on them as big around as your wrist," Kubby
says. "I've been working with Federation Seed Company strains, which I find to be very
reliable. One of their strains that I have been getting direct from the mother plant
is called CTS: Celestial Temple Sativa. This variety produces an amazing high that is
ceilingless. You know how you can smoke some pot and then you can't get any higher.
Well, this pot gets you higher and higher, and the high is clear, creative and
energetic. You can smoke it all the way up to psychedelic levels."
As Kubby recovers from radiation therapy and tries to get his strength
back so he can again join Michele on Pot-TV, he says he is grateful to be alive.
"It's been an amazing journey of prosperity, struggle, and cannabis
victory," Kubby said. "I have to thank everyone who helps us, everyone who grows pot,
everyone who breeds seeds, and everyone who refuses to let their spirit of hope and
freedom be snuffed out."
For more information about the Kubbys, visit www.kubby.com
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