U.S. Attorney’s Office Doubles Down on Intimidation

U.S. Attorney’s Office Doubles Down on Intimidation

Mar 9, 2014

by Terrie Best – San Diego Americans for Safe Access Court Support Coordinator SAN DIEGO, CA – In October of 2013 I went to a federal court hearing here in San Diego to witness another medical cannabis patient stand before a judge and attempt to navigate a means to fair treatment from a court that does not recognize his lawfulness as a patient and...

EXPOSED: U.S. Attorney Caught Cheating in Marijuana Case

EXPOSED: U.S. Attorney Caught Cheating in Marijuana Case

Mar 8, 2014

SAN DIEGO, CA – According to Article 10 of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights; “Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.” After a completely unfair trial and a severe berating...

Another Medical Marijuana Defendant Being Bullied to Plead Guilty by Department of Justice

Another Medical Marijuana Defendant Being Bullied to Plead Guilty by Department of Justice

Oct 18, 2013

by Terrie Best – Court Support Coordinator for San Diego Americans for Safe Access San Diego CA – Just days after legal cannabis patient RonnieChang’s federal incarceration came to an end freeing him to return to his elderly mother, Crispin Price sits in court with his attorney, federal defender, Bridget Kennedy and hopes he will not have to go to...

Urgent Call for Support: Ronnie Chang

Urgent Call for Support: Ronnie Chang

Sep 30, 2013

By: Heidi Whitman, Social Media Coordinator for San Diego ASA The Chang’s need your help NOW! This is Carmen Chang. She is an 86 yr old mother who has been left to live alone & care for herself while her sole caregiver, her son Ronnie, has been held for over a year awaiting a Federal medical marijuana trial. Ronnie Chang, a legitimate medical marijuana...

U.S Attorney Folds Under Pressure, Backs Away from Gag Order in Medical Marijuana Case, as San Diego Mayor Bob Filner Observes and Prepares Public for Jury Nullification

U.S Attorney Folds Under Pressure, Backs Away from Gag Order in Medical Marijuana Case, as San Diego Mayor Bob Filner Observes and Prepares Public for Jury Nullification

May 23, 2013

By Terrie Best – San Diego Americans for Safe Access Court Support Coordinator San Diego, CA  – San Diego’s medical cannabis community saw history in the making when the city’s Mayor, Bob Filner, showed up to a federal hearing, sat with his arm around the defendant’s elderly mother and held a press conference discussing jury nullification –...

Federal Medical Marijuana Court Support and Press Conference with San Diego Mayor Bob Filner

Federal Medical Marijuana Court Support and Press Conference with San Diego Mayor Bob Filner

May 18, 2013

Who:         Federal defendant Ronnie Chang and his atty Michael J. McCabe Esq. What:        Gag Order Hearing in Federal Medical Marijuana Case        Press Conference with Mayor Bob Filner When:       2:00PM – Monday, May 20, 2013 Mayor’s Press Conference to Follow Where:      Dept. 5, on the 3rd Flr. of the San Diego...

San Diego Judge Not Convinced Medical Marijuana Case Will Result in Guilty Verdict

San Diego Judge Not Convinced Medical Marijuana Case Will Result in Guilty Verdict

May 16, 2013

By Terrie Best – San Diego Americans for Safe Access Court Support Coordinator San Diego, CA – Robert “O.J.” Hudson is a forty-something medical cannabis patient who suffers from a host of sleep disorders leaving him debilitated and looking for non-chemical answers to his conditions.   Mr. Hudson has found the limited side-effects of cannabis...

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...

Terminally Ill, Senior Citizen, Medical Marijuana Patients Endure Raid and Felony Charges in Continuation of San Diego District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis’ Reign of Terror on the Ill and Infirm

By Terrie Best – Court Support Coordinator, San Diego Americans for Safe Access San Diego, CA – Dennis and Deborah Little are a retired couple dealing with life-threatening illnesses who became medical cannabis patients and sought cover under California’s voter approved Proposition 215, the ballot measure which allowed ill patients to use medical...

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,...

San Diego Mayor Condemns Federal Prosecutions of Cannabis Patients; Urges Rescheduling

San Diego Mayor Condemns Federal Prosecutions of Cannabis Patients; Urges Rescheduling

Feb 26, 2013

San Diego Mayor Bob Filner discusses the need for congress and the Obama administration to stop prosecuting medical marijuana patients, respects states medical marijuana laws, and to reschedule...

San Diego DA Dumanis’ Office Drops Medical Marijuana Charges after Beleaguered Defendants Call Prosecutors’ Last Bluff

By Terrie Best – Court Support Coordinator, San Diego Americans for Safe Access February 4, 2013 San Diego, CA – San Diego District Attorney (DA) Bonnie Dumanis made the prosecutorial procedure the punishment today by dragging to the brink of trial Clint Guidry and Cameron Mitchell who committed no other crime but to merely possess medical cannabis for...

Dumanis Continues Raiding While Court of Appeals Tells Her She is Wrong

By: Eugene Davidovich, San Diego Americans for Safe Access SAN DIEGO — Wednesday, October 24 a dozen armed, masked NTF agents stormed Next Generation, a legal medical marijuana collective located on San Ysidro Blvd. in San Diego. The raid came just hours after the Court of Appeal for the Fourth Appellate District reversed Jovan Jackson’s conviction. In...