Apr 30, 2011

San Diego Patients, Activists and Friends— Join us at San Diego Federal Courthouse on Monday May 2, 2011 at 9am, when fellow community members and local activists will be delivering ASA’s Cease and Desist to the US Attorney’s Office, local DEA offices, and San Diego District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis’ office. WHAT: CEASE AND DESIST WHEN: Monday 9am May...

This morning with the support and approval of San Diego County District Attorney (DA) Bonnie Dumanis and in collaboration with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), swat style raids were perpetrated in both San Diego and Riverside Counties. As soon as the local chapter was notified of the raids the SD ASA Raid Response team was activated and several members...

New law shuts down more than 100 operating facilities & leaves virtually no options for relocation San Diego, CA — Medical marijuana advocacy group Americans for Safe Access (ASA) threatened to file suit against the City of San Diego today if it doesn’t amend a recent ordinance that patient advocates are calling a de-facto ban on local...

Dr. Mollie Fry and her husband Dale Schafer live in Cool, California with their family until May 2nd, when they will be forced to serve 5 years each in federal prison. Mollie and Dale are both qualified patients who use cannabis therapeutically. They should never have been tried in federal court let alone sent to prison for helping patients. Ask Obama to grant...

President Obama, We are Sick and Tired, but Doing Our Part! ASA National is launching the “Sick and Tired” Campaign. Your participation in this campaign will send a clear message to President Obama from the medical cannabis community: We are sick and tired. We are suffering from chronic or debilitating conditions, and we are weary of false promises that do...

Apr 21, 2011

Patients, Friends, and Activists– Earlier this month, over the most unprecedented public opposition to an ordinance the City Council has seen to date, they voted for a second time to approve an ordinance that the forces all collectives currently operating in the city to shutter their doors, taking away access to medical cannabis from over 50,000...

On 4/20/2011 at the regularly scheduled Council Meeting in Oceanside, the Oceanside City Council will be discussing a lawsuit against two medical marijuana collectives within their city’s limits. Oceanside is one of the municipalities within San Diego County that has had a moratorium on collectives since May of 2009. The city under the guise of updating their...

Apr 17, 2011

Imperial Beach, CA – On Saturday, April 16th, organizers and volunteers from the Stop The Ban IB campaign kicked off a grassroots effort to collect letters from concerned citizens in Imperial Beach who feel strongly against the direction taken by city leaders to ban safe access to medical marijuana for the city’s legitimate Prop.215 patients, some of...

San Diego ASA – Volunteers Urgently Needed This Weekend! This Sunday, April 17th we are requesting volunteers to help get signatures on letters to the San Diego Mayor at Earth Day, urging him to veto the newly enacted ordinance that forces every collective in the city of San Diego to shutter its doors. Mayor Jerry Sanders has the ability to veto this...

Apr 13, 2011

Patients, supporters participate in a time honored tradition of civil disobedience resisting the passage of a flawed ordinance which forces closure of all city collectives and cooperatives San Diego, CA – On Tuesday five medical marijuana activists staged an act of civil disobedience at San Diego City Hall, taking a principled and public stand against the new...

Following the largest letter writing campaign in the city’s history council ignores community’s demands; coalition holds press conference to discuss the impact of the ordinance and the community’s response to the de-facto dispensary ban. SAN DIEGO, CA – Monday, April 11th at 11:00am at the San Diego City Hall, the Stop the Ban Campaign – a coalition...

Posted by Don Duncan on The ASA Blog 4/6/2011 Yesterday, the California Senate Judiciary Committee approved SB 129, legislation sponsored by Americans for Safe Access (ASA) that will protect responsible, law abiding medical cannabis patients in the state from employment discrimination. This is the first step in adopting this important legislation, and ASA needs...

Legislation would prevent discrimination, continue to guard against impairment at the workplace Sacramento, CA — The State Senate Judiciary Committee voted 3-2 April 5, 2011, approving a bill that would protect medical marijuana patients from discrimination at the workplace. Senate Bill 129, introduced by Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) in January is...

Apr 8, 2011

On Tuesday April 12, 2011 the San Diego City Council will be holding a second reading and vote to finalize their approval of the Medical Marijuana Ordinance they approved on March 28th. As currently written, this ordinance forces all existing facilities to shut down and makes it likely that for a year or more that there will be NO MEDICAL MARIJUANA in San...

Apr 6, 2011

The San Diego City Council will be holding a second reading and vote to approve the ordinance to regulate medical marijuana collectives in the City of San Diego. This is what is listed on the current agenda: ITEM-55: Amendments to the Land Development Code and the City’s Local Coastal Program pertaining to Medical Marijuana Dispensaries; and Amendments to the...