Interviews are posted here:
http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/01/1799342.php

It should show up eventually in the results for this Steve Kubby search at Google News:
http://news.google.com/news?q=steve+kubby&scoring=d

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Steve Kubby jail interviews. Medi-pot patient in danger. Placer County, California.
http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/01/1799342.php
by eco man Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2006 at 12:10 AM

Steve Kubby details the medical neglect and the many medical dangers he is experiencing in the Placer County jail in Auburn, California.

Monday, January 30 2006 report from Steve Kubby in jail in Placer County, California.
Followed by 2 phone interviews with Steve Kubby in the same jail.
First interview farther down is from Sunday, January 29, 2006.
It is followed by one from Saturday, January 28, 2006.

Much info on Steve Kubby's arrest, incarceration, and dangerous medical problems is compiled on an ongoing basis at these links:
http://www.kubby.com
http://news.google.com/news?q=steve+kubby&scoring=d
http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/showflat.php?Number=1205086
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisaction
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Kubby
http://technorati.com/search/steve%20kubby
http://www.indybay.org/drugwar

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http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/showflat.php?Number=1205086

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Oh my God, this Auburn Journal piece- I'm speechless! Did she read the transcripts? Does she think they are forgeries, or that for want of authentic medical insight, Steve doesn't understand why he is pissing blood or being denied painkillers?

Parts of that article suck. But I like the photo in it:

http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/uploads/1205200-ch-k.jpg
Photo caption: College buddies: Medical marijuana activist Steve Kubby attended Cal State Northridge with 1970s pop culture marijuana icon Cheech Marin. Photo courtesy to the Journal.

I am learning about blog search engines. Here are some more blog search shortcuts for Steve Kubby searches.

http://search.blogger.com/?q=steve+kubby

http://blogs.icerocket.com/search?q=steve+kubby&ex=1

The one just above pulls up the jail interviews that are parked at San Francisco Bay Area Indymedia.

"Steve Kubby" is still the top search here:
http://www.technorati.com

http://www.technorati.com/search/steve+kubby

I liked the photo too, but why is it here in what ostensibly should be a prison rights issue, along with a quote from just one of Steve's doctors ("A doctor in Canada", as if no self-respecting specialist here would countenace such hair-brained medical ideas), a vague reference to mistreatment (but the Sheriffs are treating him humanely, of course, as they do all prisoners), and an isolated quote from his wife, ("Can't make it, honey, best of luck!"), a slap at the internet (ever-unreliable due to the likes of us), and- the kicker- it's a media circus (if only!).

It is a deliberate hit piece, in an area where prison is a key industry, a node in a...complex, you might say.

- The inhumanity of the Gulag -

Several reports are compiled at San Francisco Bay Area Indymedia. Some reports are also added as comments to these articles:
http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/01/1799514.php
http://www.indybay.org/drugwar/

Current Indymedia articles are high up in the results found with both regular Google web searches, and Google News searches:
Google web: http://www.google.com/search?q=steve+kubby
Google News: http://news.google.com/news?q=steve+kubby
Google News. Chronological order. Latest news is on top:
http://news.google.com/news?q=steve+kubby&scoring=d

Are there any well-moderated, public, U.S. web forums covering the Steve Kubby situation?

Well moderated like these CC forums.

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HempEvolution.org (out of San Francisco, I believe) has a running blog-type list of links and info on Steve Kubby on their home page:
http://www.hempevolution.org


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http://www.hempevolution.org/kubby/email_bill_mcpike/email060201.htm

Email from Bill McPike

Feb 2, 2006 -- I want to personally thank Clark and all of Steve's other friends & supporters.

He was so moved by your support that he was speachless in court, until the judge asked for his plea, which of couse was not guilty.

I couldn't do any (after court) media stuff as I was trying to get back into jail to talk w/Steve. He wanted me to thank everybody and he said he could never begin to express how much his friends and supporters had encouraged him at that stressful time, he will have the memory of that moment in court to keep him going in solatary confinement.

He knows you're out there helping him!!!

He says "He's a MMJ political prisoner, which is how this case started."

Let's hope that Placer County is willing to show compassion.

Keep up your support for Steve Kubby! Also he had word on calls to the jail, which the jail hopes will stop. These calls were directly responsible for his pillow & blanket. Let me tell you from my experience, that jail is cold! As I walked down a hallway I estimate it was only 50 degrees.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart, Bill McPike


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From this Feb. 2, 2006 article:

Medical pot activist to face hearing.
The Union of Grass Valley, CA. Serving Western Nevada County, California.
http://www.theunion.com/article/20060202/NEWS/102020153

Quote:

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California Sen. Carole Migden (D-San Francisco) even released a statement urging Placer County officials to allow Kubby marijuana while incarcerated.

"There is no reason why this medicine would be off-limits in the prison walls, but not outside," Migden wrote. "So I call on the officials from the Placer County Sheriff's Department to follow our state's law and give Mr. Kubby the medicine he needs to live. Whether you agree with the only treatment that has worked for Steve Kubby or not, don't let him die on your watch!"

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Here is the first Marihemp gallery photo album for a 2006 cannabis event:
http://gallery.marihemp.com/auburn2006jan31

The photos are from here:

Auburn, California. Jan 31, 2006.
http://www.hempevolution.org/kubby/press_conference_060131/pix060131.htm


Patient/Activists wait at the Placer County Jail.


Bill McPike, Steve Kubby's counsel, speaks to press.


Starchild [center], of the Libertarian Party talks to the media.


Richard and Cara Vida converse.

Quote is from the article below.

Quote:

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Steve Kubby is just the latest victim of the war on patients. Support is also
needed for Joe Fortt, the operator of Kern County's first medical cannabis
dispensary, who has been held for many months in Fresno County Jail on federal
charges of "conspiracy to manufacture." Joe is a Canadian citizen, who has
treated his HIV successfully for 15 years with a naturopathic treatment of
cannabis and other herbs that has maintained a safe level of CD4+ cells. Since
he has been incarcerated, his t-cell (CD4) count, after eight months waiting for
trial, has dropped precipitously and rapidly down to 154.

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I believe Marc Emery is also facing a count of "conspiracy to manufacture" in the USA.

Many people have already died in U.S. prisons and jails due to medical neglect. See the prisons forum, and the Jonathan Magbie thread and articles. Look his name up in Google.

----ASA article at Indybay.org begins-----

http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/02/1799915.php

Keep Incarceration from Becoming a Death Sentence
by Americans for Safe Access [ASA] Thursday, Feb. 02, 2006 at 5:46 PM

Join the efforts to release or properly care for Steve Kubby and other medical
marijuana patients who suffer from negligent medical treatment in prison.

Keep Incarceration from Becoming a Death Sentence

Join the efforts to release or properly care for Steve Kubby and other medical
marijuana patients who suffer from negligent medical treatment in prison. Please
consider sending a letter today to Judge Robert McElhany, on Steve's behalf,
asking that he be placed under house arrest in order to serve out his sentence,
and that he be allowed to consume medical marijuana while incarcerated. For an
example, see ASA’s letter sent on February 2
< http://www.safeaccessnow.org/downloads/Kubby_Letter.pdf >.

Please write to:
The Honorable Robert McElhany
Placer County Superior Court
11532 B Avenue
Auburn, CA 95603
Fax: (530) 886-1209

Steve Kubby is just the latest victim of the war on patients. Support is also
needed for Joe Fortt, the operator of Kern County's first medical cannabis
dispensary, who has been held for many months in Fresno County Jail on federal
charges of "conspiracy to manufacture." Joe is a Canadian citizen, who has
treated his HIV successfully for 15 years with a naturopathic treatment of
cannabis and other herbs that has maintained a safe level of CD4+ cells. Since
he has been incarcerated, his t-cell (CD4) count, after eight months waiting for
trial, has dropped precipitously and rapidly down to 154.

Please write to:
Judge Anthony W. Ishii
501 I Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
(Request that Joe be released pending trial, and minimally, that he receive
proper medical treatment while incarcerated.)

We continue to seek public attention and justice for other medical marijuana
patients currently incarcerated, awaiting trial in federal court and being
denied proper treatment: Dustin Costa, held in Fresno without bail for seven
months now; James Holland, held without bail in Bakersfield; Vernon Rylee, held
without bail in Sacramento; Thunder Rector, finally released on bail after seven
months in jail; and the list goes on and on. All of these patients and
providers await federal trials in which they will be forbidden to present a
medical defense. Please review ASA's list of upcoming court dates
< http://www.safeaccessnow.org/upcomingcourtdates > and consider attending a Court
hearing for these and other patients' cases. It does make a difference!

There are many other prisoners of the war on medical marijuana, previously
convicted, that also need your support. Robert Schmidt, who provided medicine to
legal Sonoma County patients until a DEA raid in 2003, has just started a 41
month sentence at Leavenworth, and needs moral support and letters. To find his
address and those of many other patients who need hope to stay alive, go to
< http://safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=624 >.

Peter McWilliams, a beloved author and activist, grew his own marijuana to treat
his cancer and AIDS. Unfortunately, Peter was arrested and jailed, and
prohibited from using cannabis while awaiting sentencing, despite how effective
it was in controlling his nausea, where other drugs had failed. The federal
denial of the natural medicine that best controlled his nausea became a death
sentence, as Peter McWilliams died in his home on June 14, 2000 at the age of
50, asphyxiating on his own vomit. Read more about Peter's story here:
< http://safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=1788 >.

We must not let the story of Peter McWilliams repeat itself for any of the
number of patients currently incarcerated.


--
Kris Hermes
Legal Campaign Director
Americans for Safe Access
http://www.SafeAccessNow.org
1322 Webster Street, Suite 208
Oakland, CA 94612
Phone: 510-251-1856 x307
Fax: 510-251-2036
Email: kris@SafeAccessNow.org

Join the fight for medical marijuana rights!
To receive ASA alerts, send a blank email to
asa-subscribe@lists.riseup.net

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Kubby No Longer Seeking To Use Marijuana in Jail


Posted by CN Staff on February 03, 2006 at 18:15:53 PT
By Kara Fox 
Source: Tahoe World 

California -- Medical marijuana activist and former Squaw Valley resident Steve Kubby is no longer seeking to use cannabis for his cancer while in jail, his lawyer told a Placer County judge Friday.

Kubby's attorney, Bill McPike, said his client's blood pressure had stabilized and he was in better health. Michele Kubby noted that her husband has been taking two pills three times a day of Marinol, a synthetic drug that contains THC, the main substance in marijuana.



On Tuesday, McPike asked the judge if Kubby could take an edible form of marijuana while in jail. He removed that motion Friday.

"I talked to the [jail] doctor and health program director and his blood pressure has stabilized and gone down," McPike told a crowd of supporters and media after the hearing Friday morning in Auburn. "It's pretty miraculous.


He was smiling and happy. Hopefully we did the right thing."


Kubby is charged with violation of probation after fleeing to Canada in 2001. The Placer County district attorney's office and McPike are working out a plea agreement that may allow Kubby to serve his 120-day sentence at home in Marin County. McPike said he was expecting to see an offer from the district attorney's office Friday afternoon and that it may involve a longer sentence for Kubby.


Kubby, 59, was convicted in 2000 with felony drug possession of psilocybin and mescaline, but was acquitted of possession of marijuana for sale charges. Placer County deputies found 265 marijuana plants, peyote buttons and a hallucinogenic mushroom in the Kubby's Squaw Valley home during a 1999 raid. He sentence was 120 days of house arrest and three years of formal probation.


In 2001, Kubby and his family fled to Canada to seek asylum. For five years they have sought protection from that country, but was denied it in December and ordered back to the U.S. Kubby was taken into custody from San Francisco International Airport Jan. 26 and transported to Placer County Jail in Auburn the next day, where he started his sentence.


Kubby and his supporters say he needs marijuana to keep adrenal cancer in remission and that he will die without it. He was diagnosed with the disease 30 years ago and has been smoking marijuana for it ever since, according to Kubby's ex-wife, Rebecca Maidman, of Truckee.


Clark Sullivan, Web master for the Hemp Evolution Web site who traveled from San Francisco to support Kubby, said supporters are putting in 60 calls a day to the jail nurse and the sheriff's office to make sure Kubby is getting the proper medical treatment.


"He said that if I didn't have Marinol waiting for him, he would have died," Michele Kubby said to a crowd of supporters and media gathered after the hearing. "It is cruel and unusual punishment for the family to have their father die. The punishment does not fit the crime. The drug war punishes women and children. Me and my children are suffering."


Michele Kubby, who attended the hearing with their nine-year-old daughter Brooke, said she has documentation to prove that a judge allowed them to go to Canada five years ago.


"We are lawmakers, not lawbreakers," she said. "We never tried to break the law unless it is political, and this is political. We have the truth on our side. I have been very frustrated with Placer County. I haven't heard a thing about Placer County's intentions with my husband."


However, Deputy District Attorney Chris Cattran said Kubby was not to leave the state of California.


"He mentioned [five years ago] he wanted to go to Canada to visit friends and he had a turn-in date," Cattran said. "He failed to turn himself in."


Medical marijuana patients and advocates from the California Marijuana Party, Libertarian Party, California National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, Axis of Love San Francisco and the El Dorado County chapter of American Alliance for Medical Cannabis formed a prayer circle before Friday's hearing and held up quilts and signs in support of Kubby.


Steven Tuck, 39, was deported from Canada on a medical marijuana case in October and traveled from Oregon to support Kubby.


"I have to show Steve I support him," Tuck said. "Out of all the people here, I know what he is going through."


Kubby ran for governor in 1998 as a member of the Libertarian Party and co-authored Prop. 215, the initiative approved by California voters in 1996 for the legalization of medical marijuana.


A hearing is scheduled for Feb. 15 at 1 p.m. in Auburn.


Note: Former Squaw Valley resident in Auburn.


Source: Tahoe World (Tahoe City, CA)
Author: Kara Fox
Published: February 3, 2006
Copyright: 2006 Tahoe World
Contact: editor@tahoe-world.com
Website: http://www.tahoe-world.com/


Related Articles & Web Site:


The Kubby Chronicles
http://www.kubby.org/


Is Kubby's Fight About Medical Marijuana?
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread21553.shtml


Supporters Flock as Kubby Appears in Court
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread21547.shtml


Pot Advocate Requests House Arrest
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread21546.shtml


http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21562.shtml