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Pubdate: Sat, 06 Dec 2003 Source: Sacramento Bee (CA) Copyright: 2003 The Sacramento Bee Contact: http://www.sacbee.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/376 Author: Art Campos, Bee Staff Writer Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/kubby.htm (Kubby, Steve) LAWSUIT DISMISSED IN PLACER MEDICAL MARIJUANA RAID SACRAMENTO - The remaining portions of a federal civil rights lawsuit filed against Placer County by medical-marijuana activist Steven Wynn Kubby over a raid at his home have been dismissed. Placer officials made the announcement in a press release Friday, saying that Kubby and his wife, Michele, agreed to the dismissal recently and that U.S. District Court Judge Morris England signed the order. The Kubbys, who fled to Canada following Steven Kubby's conviction in 2001 on drug charges in Placer County, received no monetary damages, Placer officials noted. A federal judge dismissed most of the lawsuit last year, they noted in the press release. Kubby was prosecuted in 1999 on charges of conspiracy and cultivating and possessing marijuana for sale following a raid on his Olympic Valley home. A Placer County jury failed to reach a verdict on the charges, but it found Kubby guilty on a separate count -- felony possession of mescaline and a psychedelic mushroom. Kubby never served a 120-day sentence, fleeing to Canada. He is considered a fugitive by Placer officials. Kubby has contended that a jail term would be similar to a death sentence because he would be unable to receive marijuana therapy for adrenal cancer. He has stated that Canadian officials allow him to use marijuana to treat his illness. - --- MAP posted-by: Derek