STEVE KUBBY SICK IN JAIL AFTER ARREST AT SF AIRPORT
CALIFORNIA NORML RELEASE - JAN 26, 10:30 PM PST

Steve Kubby was arrested by a dozen police immediately upon
landing at the San Francisco airport and has been whisked off to the
Redwood City jail. A welcoming party of supporters and media were
disappointed to discover that he had been spirited away out of sight
through a back entrance.
"I'm really sick already," Kubby said from jail two hours
afterwards, "I'm gonna start puking my brains out." He says his
guards laughed at him when he requested Marinol. Kubby says he
hasn't had marijuana for half a day and has begun to experience all
of the symptoms of his life-threatening disease - nausea, headaches,
swollen kidneys. He has chills and has not been able to get a
blanket from the guards."They don't understand that they're dealing
with someone with cancer," he says.
Kubby is upset that he was arrested immediately off the plane,
when he had offered to turn himself in voluntarily in Placer County
on Tuesday. San Francisco airport police said that they had arrested
him at the request of Placer County authorities. They said Kubby
will be arraigned in court tomorrow morning, though it wasn't clear
where - in Redwood City, where he is being detained, or in Placer
County. Kubby did not even know where he was being detained when he
called California NORML.
Aside from his inhumane medical treatment, Kubby says police have
treated him politely. He embarked on his trip in good spirits in the
hopes of finally resolving his fight with the law.

PROTEST INHUMANE TREATMENT OF STEVE KUBBY!

Kubby's attorney, Bill McPike, urges supporters to call on the
Placer County authorities to release Kubby immediately.

Please contact:
Bradford R. Fenocchio
Placer County District Attorney
(530) 889-7000
(530) 889-7129 fax
bfenocch [at] placer.ca.gov
to voice your disapproval over Steve Kubby's inhumane treatment.

- D. Gieringer, Cal NORML