Ten Minutes to a Not Guilty Verdict in San Diego Medical Marijuana Concentrate Case – Or, How to Ruin Bonnie Dumanis’s Weekend

Ten Minutes to a Not Guilty Verdict in San Diego Medical Marijuana Concentrate Case – Or, How to Ruin Bonnie Dumanis’s Weekend

Mar 4, 2016

  March 4, 2016 By Terrie Best – San Diego Americans for Safe Access San Diego, CA – It is hard to say exactly when the San Diego District Attorney’s Office lost their cannabis extraction case against legal patient John Mazula. His friends would say it was when the DA chose John to victimize; many activists say it was when John hired brilliant...

Mysterious Burglary Leads to Raid on Activist’s Office Space

Mysterious Burglary Leads to Raid on Activist’s Office Space

Oct 27, 2014

October 27, 2014 By Terrie Best – San Diego Americans for Safe Access San Diego, CA – Last week, a well-known local activist and small business owner was effectively shut down when Police raided his office, stole his legal medical cannabis and ordered the electric meter removed. Very little explanation was given. The bizarre story began very early...

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...

Marijuana May Be Back on IB Ballot in 2014

Marijuana May Be Back on IB Ballot in 2014

Dec 16, 2013

Re-post from IB Patch Monday, December 16, 2013 – Imperial Beach resident Marcus Boyd, who helped author and champion Proposition S to change medical marijuana regulation in IB, intends to begin a new effort soon to allow a dispensary to open in IB, he told Patch. Boyd said he intends to speak at a city council meeting Wednesday to invite city officials...

San Diego Superior Court Judge Threatens Citizen Observers with Arrest for Advocacy in Medical Marijuana Sentence Hearing

San Diego Superior Court Judge Threatens Citizen Observers with Arrest for Advocacy in Medical Marijuana Sentence Hearing

Jul 30, 2013

By Terrie Best, San Diego Americans for Safe Access Court Support Coordinator July 30, 2013 San Diego, CA – In a weird and wholly inappropriate display of rage today in the downtown courthouse, Judge Peter Gallagher ranted at defendant Victor Marion for choosing to have medical cannabis supporters in the courtroom for his sentencing, leaving the defendant in...

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 –...

San Diego County Democrats Endorse Proposition S in Imperial Beach

San Diego County Democrats Endorse Proposition S in Imperial Beach

Aug 28, 2012

By: Eugene Davidovich SAN DIEGO – Shortly after the South Bay Democratic Caucus unanimously recommended an endorsement of Proposition S at a meeting on Tuesday August 21, the San Diego County Democratic Central Committee voted to officially endorse Proposition S in Imperial Beach as well. Also known as the Safe Access Ordinance of Imperial Beach, if passed,...

Imperial Beach Medical Marijuana Signature Gathering Effort Begins

Imperial Beach Medical Marijuana Signature Gathering Effort Begins

Mar 26, 2012

Advocates begin circulating petition to overturn city’s ban on safe access to medical marijuana. Imperial Beach, CA – On Friday, a team of community activists converged on Imperial Beach, began circulating a petition and gathering signatures to place the Safe Access Ordinance of Imperial Beach (IB) on the November 2012, ballot. If passed, the measure would...

Working for Reform in Imperial Beach

Working for Reform in Imperial Beach

Mar 14, 2012

by: Marcys Boyd, Imperial Beach Americans for Safe Access To put the needs of sick and dying patients ahead of politics in Imperial Beach, we need people committed to reform in our local community. Medical marijuana is an important local compassionate use issue, an issue that local officials have attempted to govern using a ridiculous, county sponsored,...

City Council Approves Ban on Patients Growing Medicine in Private Homes in Imperial Beach

City Council Approves Ban on Patients Growing Medicine in Private Homes in Imperial Beach

Jul 11, 2011

Imperial Beach City Council approves ban in violation of State Law on patients growing medicine in their own homes; patients and advocates are outraged and ready to turn to the voters in 2012 By: Terrie Best, San Diego Americans for Safe Access Imperial Beach, CA – On July 7th, 2011, with a 4 to 1 vote, the Imperial Beach (IB) City Council approved an...

Advocates Issue ‘Enhanced’ Red Alert Specifically to Imperial Beach Supporters of Medical Marijuana

Advocates Issue ‘Enhanced’ Red Alert Specifically to Imperial Beach Supporters of Medical Marijuana

Jul 6, 2011

By: Marcus Boyd, Vice Chair San Diego Americans for Safe Access Medical cannabis patients, supporters and advocates in the City of Imperial Beach (IB) are urged to be prepared. Additional law enforcement action against legitimate patients brought about by the IB City Council is imminent. Now is the time to stand up against the City Council’s attempt to...

Imperial Beach to Ban Collective Cultivation; City Council Refuses to Implement State’s Medical Marijuana Laws

Imperial Beach to Ban Collective Cultivation; City Council Refuses to Implement State’s Medical Marijuana Laws

Jun 13, 2011

By: Eugene Davidovich and Marcus Boyd Imperial Beach, CA – On June 15, 2011 at 7pm, the Imperial Beach City Council will discuss and vote to enact an outright ban on medical marijuana dispensaries and all collective cultivation efforts in the City of Imperial Beach. Although the staff report compiled for the June 15th meeting states, “the ordinances...

Imperial Beach City Council Shifts Course on Dispensaries from Regulation to Eradication

Imperial Beach City Council Shifts Course on Dispensaries from Regulation to Eradication

Jun 7, 2011

*UPDATE* June 9 – After publishing the following in this article: “At the conclusion of the meeting, Kiwanis members voted informally 10 to 1, in support of medical marijuana dispensaries within city limits.” we found out there was in fact no vote taken, formal or otherwise during that meeting. We apologize for the incorrect information...

ASA Advocates Take Possession of Marijuana Plants from San Diego County Sheriff

ASA Advocates Take Possession of Marijuana Plants from San Diego County Sheriff

Oct 21, 2010

By: Marcus Boyd and Eugene Davidovich, San Diego Chapter of Americans for Safe Access District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis and her ‘fierce fight’ against medical marijuana patients suffered another devastating defeat this week. Advocates from the local chapter of Americans for Safe Access (SDASA), the nation’s largest advocacy group promoting safe and legal...