DRUG TRIAL BEGINS FOR FORMER GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE

The medical marijuana trial of former Libertarian gubernatorial candidate
Steven Wynn Kubby and his wife, Michele, returned to Placer County Tuesday
morning.

The Kubbys are charged with cultivating and possessing marijuana for sale,
two counts of conspiracy and various other counts. They contend they were
growing the pot for medicinal use.

A 53-year-old cancer patient, Steven Kubby ran for governor in 1998 and
played an instrumental role in the 1996 passage of Proposition 215, a
ballot measure that allows the doctor-recommended use of marijuana for
medicinal purposes in California. Kubby claims that pot has kept him alive
for 15 years.

The pair's trial was postponed in November when Michele Kubby, 33, was
confined to bed by doctors, who cited complications related to her
pregnancy.