MARIJUANA ACTIVIST BEING SENT BACK TO JAIL

Recently released from the Placer County jail because of
overcrowding, medical marijuana advocate Steven Wynn Kubby is being sent back.

Kubby was sentenced Tuesday to a 60-day term by a judge who
determined that the 59-year-old activist had violated his probation
in 2001 by moving to Canada rather than serve a 120-day stretch for a
drug conviction. He will report to the jail Wednesday.

Kubby said he again hopes for an early release because of good
behavior and possible jail overcrowding.

"Hopefully, I can serve just 20 days of it, but I've been given no
guarantees," he said.

Kubby left the United States five years ago, contending he would die
in the Placer jail if not allowed to use cannabis to treat his
medical condition, which Kubby has described as a rare form of adrenal cancer.

But Canadian officials deported him and he was arrested Jan. 26 when
his airplane landed at San Francisco International Airport. He was
then sent to Placer to serve his 120-day sentence for the drug
conviction but was released early due to overcrowding at the Placer
jail. Disallowed cannabis in jail, Kubby took Marinol, a prescription
drug that contains a synthetic form of THC, the active ingredient in marijuana.