By: Dan Murphy and Eugene Davidovich, San Diego Americans for Safe Access The Rx Cannabis Raid Relief Concert and Expo organized by James Stacy, Saturday afternoon, was a tremendous success. The event will help pave the road for a series of educational expos and seminars planned for the San Diego area in the next few months by a number of organizations, and...

Jul 21, 2010

Today is a day of action in San Diego! Patients, Concerned Citizens, and Advocates will be at the Federal Courthouse at noon to vocally oppose continued attempts to subvert state law, and to push for a federal policy that actually protects patients in this country. Help us protest the DEA raids and the continued bias driven effort by local and federal...

Today Judge Moskowitz issued a ruling denying Mr. Stacy’s motion to present the entrapment by estoppels defense, as well as a medical marijuana defense in his Federal Medical Marijuana Trial. Please take a moment to send out a letter of support for HR 3939, which is congressional legislation that would allow Mr. Stacy if passed to present a defense during...

From: Dale Gieringer, CA NORML HOWARD NASSIRI Represents Lake Forest Wellness Center and Collective – Only Dispensary Allowed to Remain Open During Appeal ORANGE COUNTY, CA – The Court of Appeal for the 4th District (Santa Ana) granted a temporary stay of an Orange County Superior Court’s injunction order requiring all medical marijuana...

Jun 7, 2010

After months of investigation and inquiry, the San Diego Grand Jury has finally issues their report on the Medical Marijuana Issue in San Diego. The Grand Jury has made a number of recommendations to the San Diego District Attorney, The Sheriff, and the County Board of Supervisors. The Grand Jury’s recommendations: The 2009/2010 San Diego County Grand Jury...

Eugene Davidovich, San Diego Americans for Safe Access SAN DIEGO – The Office of the Independent Budget Analyst (IBA) on May 24, 2010 issued a 15 page report (IBA Report 10-45) on the Medical Marijuana Medical Marijuana Regulatory Structure Costs and Fees. “This report will expand upon the discussion within (IBA Report 10-15) with specific...

By: Eugene Davidovich, San Diego Americans for Safe Access Listen to the NEW San Diego ASA News Brief and audio podcast of this report: San Diego, CA – On Friday May 14th, 2010, the San Diego County Planning and Land Use Commission (DPLU) met for their regularly scheduled meeting. This time, instead of the typical land use discussions, the DPLU were faced...

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...

May 5, 2010

By: Marcus Boyd, San Diego ASA The Imperial Beach City Council heard the 2nd Status Report on Interim Ordinance No. 2009-1091 at the IB city council meeting on Wednesday evening April 21st, 2010. Ordinance No. 2009-1091 is/was the anxiously awaited medical marijuana zoning ordinance for the City of Imperial Beach requested by local citizens concerned about the...

James Stacy, a legitimate medical cannabis patient and founding member of Movement in Action Collective which was raided on 9/9/9 by Bonnie Dumanis and her Cross Jurisdictional Narcotics Task Force (NTF) is facing Federal charges and the possibility of life in prison for simply following state law. Last year an undercover detective came in to the collective...

By: Tiffani Kjeldergaard Medical Marijuana patient and “Pot Farmer” (as the San Diego sheriffs office stated in their press release June 20, 2009), Potrero resident Tiffani Kjeldergaard went to court, April 2, 2010 to request her medical marijuana medicine be returned from San Diego’s District Attorney. Kjeldergaard was arrested on June 20, 2009 for...

Mar 19, 2010

By: Don Duncan, Americans for Safe Access California Assemblymember Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco) has introduced a bill that will exempt supplies used to grow or ingest medical cannabis from the state’s drug paraphernalia laws. These supplies are currently sold to medical cannabis patients under the pretense that they are being used to grow other plants or for...

WHEN: 12noon – 2pm March, 26 2010 WHERE: 940 Front Street San Diego CA WHAT: National Day of Protest against NTF and DEA raids on medical marijuana patients and collectives. In one week we will have the opportunity to tell those who seek to rule over us that we are not happy with the way they are treating us. The raids by the DEA and NTF of San Diego are not...

Mar 4, 2010

By: Eugene Davidovich FRIDAY 3/5/2010 @ 1:30 pm – Department 11 (3rd floor) El Cajon Court House – 250 East Main Street El Cajon CA Please come out and support Tiffany in her struggle to get her marijuana back by attending the return of property hearing Friday MARCH 5. Tiffani Kjeldergaard a legitimate medical cannabis patient in January of 2009 was...