Steve Tuck Now “Free” and Getting Proper Medical Care

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Steve Tuck Now “Free” and Getting Proper Medical Care.
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Posted by Richard Cowan on 2005-10-14 16:20:00

Amnesty International says the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights obliges Canada to refuse to send people to countries where they face serious risk of torture...

Steve told me in our first phone conversation after he was released: “We have a new cause, the medical abuse of prisoners. There are people in there in even worse shape than I am in and suffering even more pain, and they don’t have anyone who cares about them.”

Steve and all the other prisoners with medical problems have been subjected to torture as surely as if they had been in any medieval dungeon or modern third world hellhole. Indeed, torturers usually stop, but the untreated agony of injuries and illness never ends.
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War on Drugs Hits New Low By Jordan Smith
Austin Chronicle November 23, 2005 USA
The federal war on medi-pot patients hit a new low last month when Royal Canadian Mounted Police nabbed 38-year-old Steven W. Tuck from his Vancouver, B.C., hospital bed, whisked him to the border, and relinquished him to the custody of U.S. officials, who wanted him on charges related to a 2001 marijuana bust in California. Tuck, an Army vet, uses marijuana to help treat chronic pain associated with injuries he received in a parachuting accident back in the 1980s.
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