CA Alert: Help Steve Kubby

California NORML ALERT -
TELL PLACER CO. AUTHORITIES NOT TO IMPRISON STEVE KUBBY

You can reach Placer County prosecutors Bradford Fenocchio and Chris
Cattran at the following numbers:
Phone: 530-889-7000
Fax: 530-889-7129

National NORML ALert:
Friends:

We are writing today to ask for your help in the case of Steve Kubby,
a medical cannabis patient who has been living with his family in
Canada for the past five years. Mr. Kubby was convicted in 1999 of
misdemeanor drug possession (for possessing minute quantities of
mescaline and psilocin) stemming from a marijuana raid on his Placer
County, California home.

With permission of the court, Mr. Kubby and his family moved to
Canada in 2001 where he became a legally registered medical cannabis
patient with Health Canada to treat symptoms of a rare,
life-threatening form of adrenal cancer known as pheochromocytoma.
Mr. Kubby has managed his condition since the early 1980s exclusively
with cannabis and is today recognized as one of the longest living
survivors of the disease.

While living in Canada, the Placer County prosecutor moved to have
Mr. Kubby's misdemeanor conviction upgraded to a felony punishable by
jail time. Now Immigration Canada is attempting to expel Mr. Kubby to
the United States to serve his sentence, and the case is under
consideration by a Canadian federal judge. If returned to the United
States, Mr. Kubby would serve his sentence in Placer County, where
district attorney Bradford Fenocchio and assistant District Attorney
Chris Cattran have stated that they intend to have Mr. Kubby serve
the full 120 days in jail, and possibly longer, where he will most
likely be denied access to medicinal cannabis. According to Joseph M.
Connors, MD, Chair of the Lymphoma Tumor Group and the Research
Ethics Board at the BC Cancer Agency in Vancouver, cannabis appears
to be controlling Mr. Kubby's symptoms, and that justifies his
continued usage.

Due to the extraordinary circumstances in the case, we are asking you
to please call and/or fax DA Fenocchio and ADA Cattran to ask whether
they would provide medical cannabis to Mr. Kubby, an approved patient
in the state of California, were he to serve his sentence in their
county jail. If these prosecutors receive enough calls in support of
Mr. Kubby's case, they may be reluctant to imprison him, or become
more likely to make sure he receives proper access to his medication.

Furthermore, Immigration Canada is currently resting their argument
on the basis that the United States justice system provides
first-rate health care to American prisoners, and that Mr. Kubby
would be provided access to his medicine in jail, because medical
marijuana is legal in California. If we get the DA's office on record
saying that they will not provide medical cannabis to Mr. Kubby in
jail, there is a greater likelihood that the Canadian judge would
refuse to send Mr. Kubby to a jail where he potentially could die in
prison.

You can reach Placer County prosecutors Bradford Fenocchio and Chris
Cattran at the following numbers:
Phone: 530-889-7000
Fax: 530-889-7129

We appreciate your help on this important matter.

NORML
<http://www.norml.org>http://www.norml.org

P.S. You can learn more about the Kubby case at
<http://www.kubby.com>http://www.kubby.com