DEA Agents Don’t Lie, Says San Diego Judge in Medical Marijuana Case

DEA Agents Don’t Lie, Says San Diego Judge in Medical Marijuana Case

Aug 29, 2015

By Terrie Best – San Diego Americans for Safe Access August 28, 2015 San Diego CA – In one of the most depressing statements from a judge I’ve heard, Judge Jay Bloom of the San Diego Superior Court vilified cannabis patient witnesses from the bench while at the same time insisting DEA agents are bound to tell the truth on the witness stand or risk...

Pretrial Motion Based on Congressional Spending Bill May Get Traction in State Medical Cannabis Case

Pretrial Motion Based on Congressional Spending Bill May Get Traction in State Medical Cannabis Case

Apr 1, 2015

By Terrie Best – San Diego Americans for Safe Access April 1, 2015 San Diego, CA – Today in court, absent their clients, attorneys Michael J. McCabe and Heather Bugan argued a motion to dismiss the charges in a medical cannabis case. The argument was based on a much-publicized federal spending bill that is proving promising for cannabis patients.  The...

House votes to block the DOJ from spending money on medical marijuana investigations

House votes to block the DOJ from spending money on medical marijuana investigations

Jun 1, 2014

I can’t keep myself from congratulating the staff at Americans for Safe Access … for all of their work to help make this happen. […] ASA is the one organization dedicated to medical marijuana issues exclusively–[…]–and the vote is a huge win for ASA’s constituency and its staff.

Update: Victory for Defendants in Two Medical Marijuana Cases

Update: Victory for Defendants in Two Medical Marijuana Cases

Apr 13, 2014

By Terrie Best – San Diego Americans for Safe Access Court Support Coordinator SAN DIEGO, CA – Over a handful of weeks three state legal medical cannabis patient defendants have had charges dropped against them in two different courts.  Congratulations to Andrew Turner and his attorney, Mark Bluemel and Daniel Gregg with co-defendant, Donna and their...

Jury Verdict- Victory on Day 7 and 8 of People v Dennis and Deborah Little

Jury Verdict- Victory on Day 7 and 8 of People v Dennis and Deborah Little

Mar 18, 2014

By Terrie Best – San Diego Americans for Safe Access Court Support Coordinator SAN DIEGO, CA –  Dennis and Deborah Little were vindicated in Vista court yesterday, each of one count of possession for sale of marijuana and one of cultivation. The happy moment was shared with several jurors who lingered and hugged the traumatized couple, their attorneys...

Prosecution Sanctioned in Medical Marijuana Trial Due to Illegal Evidence Destruction Day 1 of Dennis and Deborah Littles’ Pre-trial Motions

Prosecution Sanctioned in Medical Marijuana Trial Due to Illegal Evidence Destruction Day 1 of Dennis and Deborah Littles’ Pre-trial Motions

Mar 4, 2014

March 4, 2014 By Terrie Best – San Diego Americans for Safe Access Court Support Coordinator   San Diego, CA – Dennis and Deborah Little were in court in Vista before Judge Richard Munroy with their Attorneys Lance Rogers and Nathan Shaman to take the prosecution to task using what Nathan Shaman referred  to as a Trombetta Motion.  The issue the...

San Diego Rally Against Federal Interference

San Diego Rally Against Federal Interference

May 3, 2013

Join patients, medical professionals, lawyers, advocates, and concerned citizens for a rally at the San Diego Federal Courthouse on Monday, May 6th at 12pm (Noon), against the continued federal interference with our state’s medical marijuana program. Over the last few weeks San Diego has seen targeted attacks against the medical marijuana community led by...

Free Ron Chang

Free Ron Chang

Mar 15, 2013

Ron Chang, is a medical cannabis patient and collective director who has been in federal custody for over six months. He is facing over 60 counts with trial to come sometime this year. Watch Mr. Chang’s attorney, Michael J. McCabe discuss this politically motivated, vindictive prosecution by Laura Duffy’s...

William R. Sherman, DEA San Diego Field Division: Stop Misleading the Public About Medical Marijuana

William R. Sherman, DEA San Diego Field Division: Stop Misleading the Public About Medical Marijuana

Mar 3, 2013

William R. Sherman, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) San Diego Field Division has declared an outright war on medical marijuana patients in San Diego. Without any regard for State law or local regulations, Sherman has commandeered local law enforcement to enforce federal law and has executed hundreds of raids on medical...

President Barack Obama, Eric Holder: Replace US Attorney Laura Duffy

President Barack Obama, Eric Holder: Replace US Attorney Laura Duffy

Feb 28, 2013

Change.org Petition to remove Laura Duffy as US Attorney for Southern District Laura E. Duffy was sworn in as the Presidentially-appointed United States Attorney for the Southern District of California on June 2, 2010. Since then, she has waged a vindictive war on legitimate medical marijuana patients in her district. Aside from ordering arrests,...

More Problems at DEA: Agent Implicated in Theft of Attorney Client Records in State Medical Marijuana Trial

More Problems at DEA: Agent Implicated in Theft of Attorney Client Records in State Medical Marijuana Trial

May 17, 2012

By: Eugene Davidovich, San Diego Americans for Safe Access San Diego District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis presses on with trial of medical marijuana patient in full compliance with state law even after feds refuse to prosecute and court records show DEA’s involvement in theft of attorney-client records. Press conference scheduled for Friday morning. SAN DIEGO –...

Patient Advocates Appeal Federal Decision to Deny Medical Marijuana to Millions of Americans

Notice of appeal filed in D.C. Circuit challenges recent denial to reschedule marijuana for medical use Washington, DC — The country’s leading medical marijuana advocacy group, Americans for Safe Access (ASA), with the Coalition for Rescheduling Cannabis (CRC), today appealed a recent decision by the federal government to keep marijuana classified as...

Patients’ Lawsuit Forces Federal Gov’t to Answer 9-Year-Old Medical Marijuana Rescheduling Petition

Petition’s denial maintains status quo, gives advocates chance to appeal and argue marijuana’s therapeutic value Washington, DC — Less than two months after patient advocates filed a lawsuit compelling the federal government to answer a 9-year-old petition to reschedule medical marijuana, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) today made...