It has always amazed me that you continue to publish letters from writers that have never ever seen or read the Auburn Journal. Kubby was convicted and sentenced to 120 days of "house" arrest, instead he choose to flee to Canada to avoid this sentence. He was "booted" out of Canada and is now being a martyr for the potheads of America. Read Proposition 215 and the legislation that has been passed since. There is nowhere in this or any other "law" that requires a doctor's prescription, it only requires that a physician recommend. Verbal is accepted to allow a person to get a state-issued users card. Check out how many doctors will give a written prescription for pot and what pharmacy will fill that prescription - zero, nada, none. How can a man conceive children and expose them to heavy pot smoking? Pot, like cigarettes, causes lung damage along with a deadening of senses! Kubby needs a psychiatrist, not pot. Mike Monahan [end]
The Auburn Journal not only published another Kubby pot story, you published a guest column by him, Journal, July 22. I checked Google and there are 462 items that come up which include both the Auburn Journal and Steve Kubby. His column shows that in Canada a person can have two pounds per month. How many plants does it take to reap one pound? He was caught with 265 plants in Placer County. Would Canada allow this? I have written on this particular subject a number of times as I feel it is a disservice to the community to keep trying to force-feed the legalization of pot. Pot is no different from cigarettes when it comes to lung disease. If it is legal, then the misled individuals that are smoking it will have a venue for a lawsuit against companies that distribute the product. Mike Monahan Newcastle [end]
I really don't have a problem with the (Steve) Kubby pot problem, even though I do wholeheartedly believe that the medicinal marijuana initiative that was passed is bogus and only made it easier for potheads to keep being potheads. My problem has been the ongoing message in the Auburn Journal, which has published letters that are transparently clear in support of Kubby from a pro-pot viewpoint. Once again, you have piqued my awareness of the Kubbys and the avoidance of serving time in our jurisdiction, Journal, Dec. 7. The term was determined, as I recall, not for pot but for a few other illicit items that were found in the Kubbys' possession that in no way can be construed as something for "medicinal" use. [continues 142 words]
