Steve Kubby, Mary Ruwart, Ray Carr and Lee Wrights resign from Cannabis Science corporation Board of Directors
July 11th, 2009 · 55 Comments
Steve Kubby, Mary Ruwart, Ray Carr and Lee Wrights resign from Cannabis Science corporation Board of Directors | Independent Political Report
Steve Kubby and Mary Ruwart are former candidates for the Libertarian Party Presidential and Vice Presidential nominations, and Kubby was the 1998 Libertarian candidate for Governor of California. Mary Ruwart and Lee Wrights are At Large members of the Libertarian National Committee. Ray Carr is Mary Ruwart’s husband.
From Steve Kubby, via facebook: “Dr. Ruwart, Ray Carr and Lee Wrights joined me in walking out of a company I created. As Libertarians, we all share the same commitment to the same principles. When it became clear that our company had become entangled in fraud and deception, we demanded answers. Instead, those behind the fraud illegally removed me. Yes, we could have fought it and won, but attorneys repeatedly waned us that it is only a matter of time before the SEC will be investigating the company’s many questionable activities. Actually, these guys have done me a great favor, because they have removed me from a stinking mess and assumed the liability for themselves. Is a new company already in the works? Stay tuned…”
This was just followed by an email to Steve’s list: “The Truth Shall Set You Free
Yesterday I thought I had paid a high price by choosing to tell the truth, but today I know it has propelled me to a new level. The response to my resignation has suddenly filled my life with sunshine and amazing new opportunities. Our wonderful project, once mired in fraud, has been cleansed. As one member of our team put it: “We’ve been dragging around a 5,000 pound gorilla and now we’re finally free.”
Karma works!”
A more detailed note about the resignation was posted by Steve Kubby to facebook a couple of day ago:
My Resignation from the Cannabis Science Board of Directors
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The challenges of launching our company, during the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, forced us to move quickly and decisively, resulting in a lot of snap decisions and rushed actions that I felt needed to be reviewed. Hence, I recently asked our COO, Ray Carr, to perform an internal review, so we could determine what actually happened and where we are now.
In the course of his review, Ray Carr spoke by phone with Raymond Dabney, who had brought us the deal with Gulf Onshore to do a reverse merger. Our COO wanted to determine what stocks had been issued and to whom. When Mr. Carr attempted to get details about certain unusual consulting contracts, Dabney refused to provide answers and told our COO, “it’s none of your business.”
For Dabney to tell our COO what he did, was disturbing and unacceptable to Mr. Carr, and when I found out about it, disturbing to me, especially since I have been increasingly troubled by Dabney’s demands that we sign stock deals with consultants with vague responsibilities and identities. It was then that our COO advised me that he believed something might be going on that required an internal investigation of Raymond Dabney’s stock deals and the advice of our SEC attorney.
It was our Chief Science Officer, Dr. Robert Melamede, who brought Raymond Dabney to my attention and gave him a strong personal recommendation. Despite the recommendation, I did a search on Dabney and came up with this:
“In November 2005, for example, the commission suspended Ray Dabney, the president of Xraymedia, after he admitted sending out 22 false news releases about the company. Several Xraymedia directors serve on Goldmark’s board, and the two companies share the same Vancouver address, according to filings with the Pink Sheets. Xraymedia was the subject of a 2003 spam campaign, according tospamnation.info, a Web site that tracks penny-stock spam. Shares of Xraymedia are quoted on the Pink Sheets. Although barred from the Pink Sheets, Goldmark shares may still trade if a broker is willing to sell them to investors (few are).”
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