Cancer patient arrested at Canadian hospital, turned over to US

[guruoo]

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/6420AP_WA_Patient_Arrest.html

Thursday, October 13, 2005 · Last updated 7:47 p.m. PT

Patient arrested at Canadian hospital released from King County Jail

By GENE JOHNSON
AP LEGAL AFFAIRS WRITER

SEATTLE -- An American medical-marijuana advocate who says he was arrested at a Canadian hospital while waiting to be admitted for prostate surgery, turned over to U.S. authorities and held for several days without having his catheter removed was released from a Seattle jail to seek medical care Thursday.

"The whole time I was in jail, they put a blood-pressure cuff on me. That was all," Steven William Tuck, crying and shaking, said after his release.

His lawyer, Douglas Hiatt, and the president of Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility, Sunil Aggarwal, brought him to Harborview Medical Center, where he was being evaluated in the emergency room Thursday night.

"The doctors are appalled at the condition he's in," Hiatt said.

Canadian Border Services agents took Tuck, who fled from California to British Columbia in 2001 to avoid prosecution on charges of growing and distributing marijuana, from an admitting-room gurney at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver on Friday, he and a witness told The Associated Press. Tuck's bid for asylum in Canada had failed, but he said he was trying to appeal the decision.

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[NVMojo]

1. We be a sick, facist nation ...

[rexcat]

3. This does not make the Canadians look good either!

[texastoast]

2. How much did that cost the taxpayers

To go after someone growing an herb that relieves suffering?

Crazy, uptight fucking nation. I hope the kids do a better job than the boomers.