The AP Carries Story Reporting
That Lockyer Is Ignoring Libertarian Party Call
To Protect Rights Of Kubby and Other Medical Marijuana Users
(Marijuananews note: This is remarkably good
journalism, so it probably won’t be picked up by many papers. Lockyer may win a
Gold Medal for the fastest "sell-out." He doesn’t have the guts to take on
the local narks who have decided to nullify Prop 215. I hate it when I’m right.)
See
Lockyer Says He Will
Not Fight For Or Against Medical Marijuana;
All That Is Necessary For the Triumph Of Evil Is For Enough Good AGs To Do Nothing
and
Evidence In Kubby
Case Obtained Through Bedroom Surveillance;
Narcs Observed And Videotaped Kubbys Having Sex
and
National Libertarian
Party Ready To Focus On Placer County,
Where 8 People Using Medicinal Marijuana With Doctor Approval Have Been Raided,
Harassed, Imprisoned, And Persecuted By The Placer County Sheriff Despite Prop 215.
and links
LOCKYER WONT GET INVOLVED IN PROSECUTION OF GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE
January 26, 1999
From the Associated Press
TAHOE CITY, Calif. (AP) -- Attorney General Bill Lockyer
won’t intervene in the prosecution of the 1998 California Libertarian candidate for
governor and his wife, who are accused of growing marijuana plants at their home.
The state’s Libertarian Party sent a letter to Lockyer urging his support. But a
Lockyer spokeswoman told the Auburn Journal that the attorney general would not get
involved in the case despite his support of Proposition 215, the California medical
marijuana initiative.
"Mr. Lockyer voted for Prop. 215 and supported it, but he did not go out and
campaign for the measure," press secretary Hilary McLean said.
(Marijuananews note: This is a novel legal doctrine. Chief law
enforcement officers only have to uphold laws that they actually campaigned for!)
See
Peter McWilliams Sues
Lungren For Failing to Enforce Prop 215; Seeks His Impeachment
Steve Kubby, and his wife, Michele, were arrested Jan. 19 after a search warrant served
at their Olympic Valley home resulted in the discovery of 360 plants in four rooms. The
couple claimed to be growing marijuana for medical use under a doctor’s direction.
Prosecutors said they will be charged with felony counts of
cultivation, possession for sale and conspiracy at their arraignment Thursday.
Steven Kubby was a key proponent of Proposition 215, and openly described using
marijuana, during his gubernatorial campaign, for the adrenal cancer he has had for more
than two decades.
In a letter to Lockyer, state Libertarian Party chairman Mark
Hinkle called on the attorney general "to bring the full weight of your office down
in this matter and investigate the North Tahoe Task Force and Placer County District
Attorney’s Office to determine the cause of this unnecessary police action."
Hinkle also noted the more than 5 million Californians who voted for Proposition 215 in
1996.
Kubby, 52, publisher of an online recreation magazine, ran fourth in the race for
governor last November, taking nearly 1 percent of the vote.
Copyright: 1999 Associated Press
(Marijuananews note: The Media Awareness Project
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