Jan 17, 2013

By Terrie Best, San Diego ASA Court Support Coordinator San Diego – City Attorney Jan Goldsmith dashed off a letter to litigants in medical marijuana dispensary cases indicating he is not answerable to his client the Mayor and manufacturing mistruths, in what appears an attempt to make the procedure the punishment in twelve medical marijuana dispensary zoning...

Jul 12, 2012

Oakland Mayor, city and state officials to speak at press conference scheduled for 9am Thursday at City Hall Oakland, CA — California’s most well-known medical marijuana dispensary, Harborside Health Center, was served with a civil complaint for “forfeiture of property” on Monday for both of their locations in Oakland and San Jose. The...

From the ASA National Blog: by: Sal Sodaro Safe access to medical cannabis became law in Connecticut today, when HB 5389 was signed into law by Governor Dannel Malloy. The compassionate use bill will take effect on October 1st, 2012. Below is a perspective from a Connecticut patient who testified in support of the bill this Spring. I am proud to see medical...

Mar 8, 2012

Last year, California appellate courts ruled in Pack v. City of Long Beach and City of Riverside v. Inland Empire Patient’s Health and Wellness Center, considerably altering the legal landscape of safe access to medical marijuana. In January, after urging from ASA and other groups, the California Supreme Court decided to review these harmful rulings,...

By: Eugene Davidovich Medical marijuana advocates unveiled a proposed ballot measure this week for the City of Imperial Beach that would create zoning and operational standards for medical cannabis dispensing collectives and cooperatives. IMPERIAL BEACH, CA – Medical marijuana patients and advocates with San Diego Americans for Safe Access, a local chapter of...

Apr 3, 2011

The San Diego Chapter of Americans for Safe Access (ASA) is calling on medical cannabis patients and advocates, to speak up in opposition to the ordinance passed by the San Diego City Council on March 28, 2011. The San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders along with the entire City Council and City Attorney need to hear that we do not support shutting down all dispensaries...

By: Eugene Davidovich, San Diego Americans for Safe Access Advocates help keep a man unjustly convicted free while his case is appealed by their Chief Counsel Joe Elford. SAN DIEGO – Jovan Jackson a medical marijuana patient, Navy Veteran, and former operator of Answerdam a medical marijuana collective in San Diego, was convicted on September 28th, 2010...

By: Eugene Davidovich, San Diego ASA The proposed ordinance that would regulate medical marijuana dispensaries in the city of San Diego is now one step closer to a full city council vote. On Thursday January 20th, the San Diego Planning Commission voted to approve recommendations to further restrict access in the city of San Diego. By a vote of 3 to 2 the...

Update on Five Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Raided October 6, 2010 1. Holistic Collective – Palm Springs, CA 2. Alternative Medicine Collective – Covina, CA 3. Riverside Compassionate Wellness Center – Riverside, CA 4. San Diego Holistic Collective – San Diego, CA 5. Compassionate Medical Collective – San Diego, CA The news...

By: Eugene Davidovich SAN DIEGO – If you thought intimidation couldn’t get any worse in the San Diego State Courts, think again. This morning Department 15 as per the new demands of the San Diego District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis, was outfitted with additional security measures. While walking up to the courtroom this morning a congregation of bailiffs...

Dumanis Continues Attempts to prevent medical defense in Second Trial By: Eugene Davidovich SAN DIEGO – Despite being acquitted by a jury late last year of charges stemming from a 2008 arrest on marijuana possession and distribution charges, medical marijuana patient and provider Jovan Jackson is being tried by San Diego District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis for a...

DISPENSARIES PROVIDE MANY BENEFITS TO THE SICK AND SUFFERING Americans For Safe Access Safe and legal access to cannabis is the reason dispensaries have been created by patients and caregivers around the state. For many people, dispensaries remove significant barriers to their ability to obtain cannabis. Patients in urban areas with no space to cultivate...

By: Eugene Davidovich It’s now August of 2010, almost fourteen years since the voters of California approved the Compassionate Use Act (Proposition 215) ensuring that “seriously ill Californians have the right to obtain and use marijuana for medical purposes where that medical use is deemed appropriate and has been recommended by a physician who has...

May 31, 2010

Americans for Safe Access (ASA) filed an appeal of the Zoning Administrator’s interpretation of the new medical cannabis ordinance in Los Angeles on Friday. The appeal challenges the Zoning Administrator’s position on parking and nonconforming use status for medical cannabis collectives. In an interpretation published on May 6, Zoning Administrator Michael...

LAKE FOREST – Superior Court Judge David Chaffee in Lake Forest CA on Wednesday, May 12, 2010, granted a request by the city for a preliminary injunction which will now allow the city to shut down all medical marijuana dispensing collectives, cooperatives, grows, and other related uses. Judge Chaffee “found that under state law a city cannot pass a...