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Medical
Marijuana:
Steve
Kubby
Back
in
Jail
for
60
Days
--
Or
Less
3/17/06
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/427/stevekubby.shtml
California medical marijuana
activist Steve Kubby is back behind bars, but there is a not so distant
light at the end of the tunnel. The coauthor of Proposition 215 and
former Libertarian Party gubernatorial candidate was sentenced Tuesday
to serve 60 days for violating his probation by moving to Canada in 2001
rather than serve a 120-day sentence for drug possession.
Kubby, who suffers from a
rare form of adrenal cancer whose symptoms are alleviated by marijuana,
was the subject of a 1999 raid by Placer County authorities who sought
to convict him as a marijuana trafficker for growing his own medicine.
When that effort failed, they tried and convicted him for possession of
a mushroom stem and a peyote button found in a guest bedroom in his home.
Fearing that he would die
in jail without his medicine, Kubby moved himself and his family to Canada.
But, after a lengthy legal process, Canadian authorities ordered him deported
in January, and he was arrested on a Placer County warrant when he returned
to the US.
Kubby was not allowed to
use medical marijuana while jailed in Placer County on the 120-day sentence
and suffered weight loss and bloody urine, but was able to stabilize his
condition -- at least for the short term -- with the synthetic cannabinoid
Marinol. He was released last week after serving only 20 days of
his sentence, with jail officials citing good behavior and jail overcrowding.
Kubby and his supporters
are hoping this sentence will be similarly truncated. "Hopefully,
I can just serve 20 days of it," he told reporters Tuesday, "but I've been
given no guarantee."
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Issue #427
-- 3/17/06
Feature:
The
Misuse
of
SWAT
--
Paramilitary
Policing
in
the
Drug
War
|
Feature:
Cincinnati
Marching
Boldly
Backward
With
New
Marijuana
Ordinance
|
Feature:
Portland
Initiative
Would
Make
Marijuana
"Lowest
Law
Enforcement
Priority"
|
Hitting
the
Ground
Running
in
2006
--
With
Your
Help
|
Law
Enforcement:
This
Week's
Corrupt
Cops
Stories
|
Medical
Marijuana:
DEA,
Local
Cops
Raid
Another
California
Collective
--
Angel
Raich
Arrested
at
Protest
|
Marijuana:
East
Bay
DEA
Raids
Take
Out
Marijuana
Candy
Supplier
|
Free
Speech:
High
School
Student's
"Bong
Hits
4
Jesus"
Banner
Protected
by
First
Amendment,
9th
Circuit
Says
|
Medical
Marijuana:
Steve
Kubby
Back
in
Jail
for
60
Days
--
Or
Less
|
Latin
America:
Argentine
Appeals
Court
Throws
Out
Medical
Marijuana
Conviction
|
Southwest
Asia:
Afghanistan
to
Encourage
Opium
Lords
to
Invest
at
Home,
Official
Says
|
Middle
East:
Israel's
Green
Leaf
(Marijuana)
Party
Could
Win
Knesset
Seats
|
Web
Scan:
BBC,
Newsday
Rockefeller
Editorial,
A
Drug
War
Prisoner
on
the
Net
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