A collection of medical marijuana activists from Axis of Love San Francisco, Hemp Evolution, and the California Marijuana Party are assembling tomorrow night to welcome medical cannabis patient Steve Kubby back home from Canada.

The gathering, which will take place at 8 pm at Alaska Airlines Terminal 1 at San Francisco International Airport, is a show of support for Kubby who was denied refugee statues by Canada where he had fled after being arrested in Placer County California for growing cannabis.

Kubby, a former Libertarian candidate for California governor, says he suffers from pheochromocytoma, rare adrenal cancer which causes deadly amounts of adrenaline to enter his blood stream. After surviving 20 years with the condition, Kubby says he is alive because he uses medical cannabis to help control the levels of adrenaline in his blood stream.

Placer County Assistant District Attorney Chris Cattran told the Auburn Journal on January 6th that when Kubby returns, he would be arrested and jailed for at least 120 days and possibly longer.

But on January 9, Immigration Counsel Keith Reimer told Canadian Justice Yvon Pinard that Kubby faced no risk of arrest if he was forced to return to the U.S. Kubby's request for refuge status was subsequently turned down.

When Kubby arrives in San Francisco tomorrow night, he is expected to be greeted by both law enforcement and medical cannabis activists who say every effort will be made to keep Kubby from being forced to return to Placer County.

Cattran told a Canadian Refugee hearing in April 2003 that Placer County had arranged for two "specialists" to fly in and testify at Kubby's trial that Kubby did not have cancer, but if he did, cannabis would make the condition worse.

Kubby's wife Michele and his two daughters are driving to California because they say they want to shield their children from having to watch their father taken into custody.