Steve Kubby

[Shelbay]

Are there any threads I missed on his release? He was released early..just read about it on here..could anyone on here if there is another thread please give me the link..thanks.

[Psycho4Bud]

Medical Marijuana: Steve Kubby Back in Jail for 60 Days -- Or Less 3/17/06
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/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."
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/427/stevekubby.shtml

[Psycho4Bud]

Bumpin' over the bullshit!:thumbsup:

[Shelbay]

Thanks for the link..that article was dated March,17th..are there any current ones that you know of? I thought he was free...anyway..thanks again for the reply.

[Psycho4Bud]

Thanks for the link..that article was dated March,17th..are there any current ones that you know of? I thought he was free...anyway..thanks again for the reply.

That's the last that I could find. The way it sounds, he did his time for the initial offenses and then went to trial for the bail jumping and is serving the remainder. I find info on him on Google search, just plug in his name and check out "web" and "news".

Best wishes to Steve and his family!!:thumbsup:

[Shelbay]

Okay..yes i could google..but most of the time i can find info on here that is not on Google. Yes..I agree..best wishes to him and his family..I was really concerned about him..very happy to read that Marinol helped him to an extent.

[Psycho4Bud]

Here's a little something new from his web site.........

http://www.kubby.com/
Steve Kubby Describes His Involuntary Marinol Experiment
What: Jail Letter
When: Written March 27, 2006, released on April 3.



Dear Friends and Fellow Activists,
Greetings from Cell N431 at the Placer County Jail, where I am under "protective custody," 23-hour daily lock-down in the facility's maximum-security section. I am currently serving a 60-day sentence for violating probation by not returning from Canada, after have already completed the 120-day sentence imposed on me in 2001.



As grim as that may sound, I am in good spirits and filled with gratitude for all the support and financial assistance that my family, friends, physicians, lawyers and fellow activists have provided me. Most of all, I am grateful to be alive and to have survived what we all feared would be a death sentence for me.



When I was first booked into the Placer County Jail on Friday, January 27, I had already been in the custody of the San Francisco and San Mateo police for 24 hours, and had suffered a major hypertensive crisis. By the time I was transferred to Placer, my blood pressure was 170 over 120, my kidneys were painfully swollen, and I was passing blood in my urine. When I refused conventional hypertension drugs (which are actually very dangerous for someone with my form of episodic hypertension), I was ordered to sign a release that said if I died, it would be my own fault. I was then subjected to miserably cold conditions and agonizing pain for three days over the weekend. I was also denied any pain relief, not even Tylenol.



The only medication I was allowed was Marinol, prescribed by Dr. Tod Mikuriya, as a last-ditch effort to do something to control my blood-pressure attacks of 250 over 220. Since Marinol has never been approved, or even tested as a hypertension medication, there was little hope it would work.



However, to everyone's complete astonishment, my blood pressure began to slowly return to normal over the next three days.



On the fourth day, I saw a physician's assistant, who told me the jail was receiving a hundred calls a day about me. The aide said the medical staff was ready to provide the best medical care possible to help me. From that moment on, thanks to all those who called on my behalf, I was treated with total respect and received excellent medical care.



On the fifth day, I was sent to see the medical director of the Placer jail, Dr. David Duncan, who smiled and told me he was impressed with Marinol's ability to control my hypertension. The first thing I said was, "The University of California at Irvine has shown that marijuana controls the production of dopamine and ..." Dr. Duncan interrupted me and completed the sentence, "... and dopamine is the precursor to catacholamines." (That's the general name for adrenaline-like compounds.)



It was a moment of awe and discovery for both of us. Dr. Duncan was confirming that he understood my theory about how the THC in Marinol, like the THC in the medical marijuana I have used all these years, was limiting the production of adrenaline by regulating my production of dopamine.



After a few more moments of grinning at each other, I told Dr. Duncan that the local paper, the Auburn Journal, was repeatedly quoting a UC Davis Dean of Medicine, who asserted that marijuana did not reduce blood pressure. "Ah," said Dr. Duncan, "that's because all the studies have been short-term views, where they test the blood pressure within minutes of giving those test subjects the marijuana. Nobody has ever thought to look 24 to 36 hours later, which is how long it took for the Marinol to work for you."



I was stunned. Finally, here was a physician who understood and confirmed my theory and use of marijuana to control my deadly blood-pressure attacks.



Best of all, this was the medical director of a jail. No one could accuse this physician of being a "pot doctor." Now we were going to document that with Marinol, my explosive episodes of hypertensive crises were not only controlled, but my blood pressure had returned over time to a healthy 120 over 80 - or better.



Unfortunately, little of this news has yet reached the outside world, and many skeptics assumed that since I haven't died in jail that my claims about my medical marijuana were inflated. Therefore, I ask you to help spread the truth about what really happened to me here.

[Shelbay]

Wow! Now see..now I know..thanks!:thumbsup: Now I have to email a few people..coffee time. I am so happy for him!:)

[Shelbay]

I just read todays news on Steve Kubby on CC's home page and he is released now and back at home.:)

[Psycho4Bud]

I just read todays news on Steve Kubby on CC's home page and he is released now and back at home.:)

GREAT NEWS!!! Thanks for the update!!:thumbsup:

You have a WONDERFUL day!!!:thumbsup: