Dec 18, 2013

By Terrie Best – Court Support Coordinator for The San Diego Chapter of Americans for Safe Access San Diego, CA – Medical cannabis patient Jason Lujan and his co-defendant members of Higher Love Delivery Service, a non-profit medical marijuana collective were in court Tuesday and today before Judge Louis Hanoian for their preliminary examination in the...

Dec 14, 2013

By Terrie Best – San Diego Chapter of Americans for Safe Access Court Support Coordinator December 14th, 2013 San Diego, CA – In a significant loss for San Diego District Attorney, Bonnie Dumanis, Jovan Jackson, a medical cannabis patient and former Answerdam Collective Operator will serve only three years probation and a handful of months in a work...

Nov 2, 2013

  By Terrie Best – San Diego Americans for Safe Access Court Support Coordinator Background: Jovan Jackson is a Navy veteran and a directing member of Answerdam, a  San Diego medical cannabis collective twice raided in previous years which resulted in two different criminal trials for Jovan. The first of Jovan’s trials stemmed from a raid in 2008 and...

Oct 27, 2013

San Diego CA – Opening statements have ended and the prosecutor has called two witnesses in Jovan Jackson’s third medical cannabis trial.  This, after a telling day and a half of jury selection where we heard at least six potential jurors stand up and say they would not convict on unjust drug laws, resulting in their dismissal from being considered as...

Oct 19, 2013

By Terrie Best – Court Support Coordinator for San Diego Americans for Safe Access Vista, CA – Yesterday medical cannabis patients Dennis and Deborah Little were in the San Diego County Courthouse in Vista as their attorneys Lance Rogers and Logan Fairfax argued a Pitchess Motion asking the court to examine the personnel records of a Deputy Sheriff who...

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...

Oct 14, 2013

  By Terrie Best – San Diego Americans for Safe Access Court Support Coordinator San Diego CA – Medical cannabis patient and collective operator, Ronnie Chang’s ordeal with the federal government will come to an end on Tuesday, October 15, 2013, after spending over a year behind bars in federal custody awaiting a trial that was to have started...

Oct 7, 2013

By Terrie Best – Court Support Coordinator for The San Diego Chapter of Americans for Safe Access San Diego – Medical marijuana patient and Navy veteran Jovan Jackson, along with his attorney, Lance Rogers assisted by Logan Fairfax and Rezwan Khan were in court Thursday and Friday, October 3rd and 4th 2013, to hammer out jury instructions and motions in...

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...

Jul 23, 2013

By Terrie Best – San Diego Americans for Safe Access Court Support Coordinator July 23, 2013 San Diego, CA – Last week, in San Diego Superior Court, Attorneys Lance Rogers and Logan Fairfax argued their clients, – medical cannabis patients and seriously ill Dennis and Deborah Littles’ – right to privacy was violated when Sheriffs flew over...

Jul 20, 2013

  By Terrie Best – San Diego Americans for Safe Access Court Support Coordinator   July 20, 2013   San Diego, CA – In a grueling week-long trial, a superior court Judge prohibited defense counsel from bringing evidence to support that cannabis patients may lawfully collectively cultivate medical cannabis under the Medical...

Jul 14, 2013

By Terrie Best San Diego Americans for Safe Access Court Support Coordinator July 14, 2013  San Diego, CA – It has been a great summer for medical cannabis attorney, Mark Bluemel, and his clients when days after the Tim O’Shea case was dismissed in state court in the interest of justice, Mr. Bluemel announced that in the federal arena, charges were...

Jun 12, 2013

Day 1 (pre-trial motions)   June 12, 2013   By Terrie Best, San Diego Americans for Safe Access Court Support Coordinator   San Diego, CA – After a day and a half of delays finding a courtroom to try the Tim O’Shea case – in an overbooked courthouse that has no business wasting rooms on legitimate medical cannabis patients...

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 –...

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...