Medical Pot Activist Steve Kubby: Sick and Imprisoned(his death sentence?)

[RedEarth]

How damn cruel is this...it's sickening

Medical Pot Activist Steve Kubby: Sick and Imprisoned

Medical marijuana activist Steve Kubby, afflicted with a rare form of adrenal cancer, was deported from Canada Thursday to begin serving a four month sentence in the U.S., and it could be his death sentence. He was taken into custody when his plane landed in San Francisco. The jail is refusing to provide him with marinol, a lawful prescription drug that is a synthetic form of THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, that relieves the debilitating pain and other symptoms of his disease.

Steve Kubby, a cancer patient, began coming ill two hours after his 8:10 p.m. arrest following police refusal to provide Marinol, NORML spokesman D. Gieringer reported...."I'm really sick already," Kubby told Gieringer by telephone said from jail. "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," Gieringer stated.

A little background from yesterday's news. Kubby had a prescription in Canada that allowed him to smoke up to one ounce of marijuana a day. The only charge against him right now--and the one he was arrested on--is a probation violation for which he would serve 120 days.

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http://talkleft.com/new_archives/013849.html

[DELUSIONAL]

1. Compassionate Conservatives

up is down
blue is red
night is day

[bliss_eternal]

2. OMG--how cruel!

:cry::mad::grr:

Why is an activist being treated worse than most criminals? I am deeply disturbed by this.

[acmejack]

3. Laughed at him...

Poor guy, and some people wonder why so many commit suicide in jail.

[bliss_eternal]

5. This man tried to help others living with pain and disease--

I fail to see a crime here. Yes, I know it's illegal, but in the grand scheme of things...

I mean did he rape, kill or steal? Did he sell drugs to minors, or prostitutes? Did he try to traffic drugs to poor communities? No--he tried to help and heal. It's shameful to me that he would be treated this way.

There's a rich, spoiled brat living in southern California that helped to gang rape a young girl. Somehow he continues to dodge any extended jail time because of his father's connections. :puke:

[Christa]

4. The criminals in congress

love their criminal buddies.

[Fozzledick]

6. State terrorism

This is nothing less than judicial murder in the first degree with special circumstances of premeditation, actual malice, torture, treason, and felonious abuse of judicial authority.

This is exactly what does NOT happen in a democracy.

We have no lawful government. We are now in a state of nature.