By: Eugene Davidovich Medical marijuana advocates unveiled a proposed ballot measure this week for the City of Imperial Beach that would create zoning and operational standards for medical cannabis dispensing collectives and cooperatives. IMPERIAL BEACH, CA – Medical marijuana patients and advocates with San Diego Americans for Safe Access, a local chapter of...
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Judge Cancels Oral Arguments in Case involving Briana Bilbray, Dispensaries Seeking Injunction to Stop Federal Crackdown

Feb 29, 2012
By: Eugene Davidovich SAN DIEGO – In October of last year several U.S. Attorneys from the Department of Justice (DOJ) held a press conference in Sacramento announcing a new Federal crackdown on medical marijuana patients and providers across California. Days after the announcement, hundreds of letters from the DOJ were sent to landlords renting commercial...
Dumanis Stoops To New Low Conducts Surveillance of Patients – Benjamin Gasper Trial Update
In line with San Diego District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis’ self proclaimed ‘fierce fight’ against medical marijuana patients in San Diego, almost two years after his initial arrest, the second attempt to prosecute Benjamin Gasper, a legal medical marijuana patient is underway. Dumanis’ office days before trial was supposed to begin, brought in ‘new’...
San Diegans Protests Federal and Local Assault on Medical Marijuana Patients Rights
By: Eugene Davidovich SAN DIEGO – On Thursday February 16th at noon, activists, patient advocates, and concerned citizens from all walks of life converged on federal courthouses in states and cities across the nation in a coordinated effort to voice their opposition to the continued federal and local assault against medical marijuana patients’...