Steve Kubby, Libertarian candidate for governor in 1998, was arrested in January of 1999 for growing too many marijuana plants. Diagnosed back in the 1970s with a rare form of adrenal cancer, Kubby was treated by Dr. Vincent DeQuattro of U.S.C., a leading authority on the disease. You can drop dead of a heart attack or a stroke at any moment.
Nobody lives longer than five years.
Dr. DeQuattro assumed Kubby had passed on long ago, then he opened the 1998 California voter's guide and there was his former patient running for governor. Amazed, the doctor tracked him down and asked him what miracle had granted him this reprieve. It seems he had abandoned the traditional treatment and switched to cannabis, smoking some 10 grams a day for the last 15 years. Dr. DeQuattro's first reaction was to put Steve Kubby under a microscope. But Cattran couldn't come up with credible evidence of commercial activity, and several defense experts testified that at Kubby's rate of consumption, his indoor garden was about right.