Source: Orange County Register (CA) Copyright: 1999 The Orange County Register Website: http://www.ocregister.com/ Contact: Editorial Pubdate: 24 Jan 1999 EDITORIAL UPDATE Former Libertarian candidate Steve Kubby and his wife, Michele, were released on their own recognizance Thursday after being arrested for marijuana cultivation and sales on Tuesday. Both use marijuana for medical conditions, with a doctor's written recommendation, but the North Tahoe Task Force claimed the plants they grew in the basement of their home were for commercial rather than medical purposes. The Kubbys and their attorneys are scheduled to receive the evidence that led to a warrant being issued on Monday, then appear for arraignment Thursday, Jan. 28. Their computers were seized (they make a living publishing an online winter sports magazine) as well as all the cash they had in the house and numerous books. Deprived of medicine while in jail, Steve suffered several high blood pressure episodes that affected his vision adversely, but he told us Friday that he and Michele are healing and in good spirits. "We were extremely careful to comply with Prop. 215 [which authorized medical marijuana] scrupulously, he said. "It's time law enforcement respected the rights the people of California gave to patients." - --- MAP posted-by: Mike Gogulski