Pubdate: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 Source: Sacramento Bee (CA) Copyright: 2006 The Sacramento Bee Contact: http://www.sacbee.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/376 Author: Art Campos, Bee Staff Writer Note: Letters from newspaper's circulation area receive publishing priority Alert: Steve Kubby Is in the Placer County Jail http://www.mapinc.org/alert/0322.html Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/kubby.htm (Kubby, Steve) Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mmj.htm (Cannabis - Medicinal) MEDICINAL POT ACTIVIST SHIFTED TO PLACER LOCKUP Medical marijuana activist Steven Wynn Kubby was transferred Friday to the Placer County Jail, where he will begin serving a 120-day sentence for a drug conviction in 2000, Placer County authorities said. Deported from Canada, the 58-year-old Kubby was arrested Thursday by San Francisco police on a no-bail warrant when his Alaska Airlines flight landed at San Francisco International Airport. He was held overnight in the San Mateo County jail in Redwood City before being transferred to Placer County, said sheriff's Sgt. Brian Whigam. Kubby will appear in Placer Superior Court on Tuesday for arraignment on a charge of violating probation, Whigam said. Kubby has contended he will die if made to serve the four-month jail sentence because he needs to use marijuana daily to keep his rare form of adrenal cancer in remission. He moved to Canada in 2001, seeking refuge from the jail term, but Canadian officials ordered Kubby out of the country this week after he exhausted all legal appeals to stay. His Placer County case stems from a 1999 raid on his Olympic Valley home near Lake Tahoe in which sheriff's deputies found 265 marijuana plants that he said he needed to treat his cancer. The officers also found small amounts of mescaline, the active ingredient in peyote, and hallucinogenic mushrooms that contained the banned substance psilocyn. Charges of marijuana possession and cultivation were dismissed after a jury voted 11-1 for acquittal, but the panel found him guilty of felony possession of the mescaline and psilocyn. - --- MAP posted-by: Larry Seguin