Where: The Shapery Emerald Plaza Building, 400 West Broadway, San Diego, CA 92101 When: December 15, 2009 5:00pm – 7:30pm (please come a little early) Please join us for a peaceful and legal protest against the San Diego District Attorney Bonie Dumanis on Tuesday December 15th from 5pm to 7pm. Dumanis is holding a fundraiser for her reelection campaign at...

Dear San Diego Medical Cannabis Community Members, Concerned Citizens, and patients! Tomorrow morning November 30, 2009 the closing arguments and jury deliberations begin in the case of Jovan Jackson. This is one of the most important cases in the history of medical cannabis in San Diego because for the first time the jury in this case will be hearing and will...

By: Eugene Davidovich 11/25/09, 3:50pm This afternoon marks day 7 of the Medical Marijuana Trial of Jovan Jackson and the defenses turn to present evidence and witnesses to the Jury. The morning began with the testimony from James Pitts, a San Diego Deputy District Attorney and member of the Answerdam Collective. His testimony was brief and uneventful, much like...

Your help is needed at the first case to go to trial out of all the arrests made in the Operation Green Rx raids since August of last year. If you are a former member/patient of Answerdam and would be willing to testify in court, please email sandiegoasa@gmail.com so we can put you in touch with the attorneys. San Diego Americans for Safe...

By: Eugene Davidovich Today at 3pm the trial of Jovan Jackson began in Department 33. The preceedings started with a closed discussion in the judges chambers with Lance Rogers, Mr. Jackson’s attorney and Chris Linbergh the prosecutor. When the judge returned to the bench, she mentioned that the motions both sides intended to file deserve a thorough read...

This afternoon Jovan Jackson a legitimate medical cannabis patient, navy veteran, and member of a local collective under attack by the San Diego DA’s office is going to trial. Trial has been set to start in Department 33 today at 3:00pm at the San Diego Superior Court. Jovan is one of the victim’s of District Attorney Dumanis’ “fierce fight” against...

By Eugene Davidovich On Thursday November 12, 2009, HARM (Health Advocates Rejecting Marijuana) held a “Marijuana Dispensaries: Legal Issues Seminar”. At the Carmel Valley Community Center. In attendance were law enforcement agencies, cities’ attorneys, and staff. Although the flier sent out by HARM advertised that anyone who cares about the issue was...

Peaceful Protest / Rally – TODAY -November 12, 2009 – 2pm-4pm Carmel Valley Community Center 3777 Townsgate Drive, San Diego 92130 HARM’s Medical Marijuana Eradication Seminar HARM is a local San Diego County funded group whose goal is to decrease the accessibility of medical marijuana. This part of their mission should outrage any citizen who...

Largest and oldest U.S. physician-based group reverses long-held position on medical marijuana Houston, TX — The American Medical Association (AMA) voted today to reverse its long-held position that marijuana be retained as a Schedule I substance with no medical value. The AMA adopted a report drafted by the AMA Council on Science and Public Health (CSAPH)...

By Eugene Davidovich November 6, 2009 2:15pm San Diego ASA would like to extend a sincere thank you to each and every one of the task force members for volunteering their time and energy as well as for being patient in hearing out the recommendations and opinions of concerned citizens and patients alike. Today the San Diego Medical Marijuana Task Force met for...

By Eugene Davidovich The San Diego Medical Marijuana Task Force will meet for the fifth and final time on Friday November 6, 2009. The issues on the agenda include zone use for locations of dispensing collectives and cooperatives, how to verify that the operation is non profit, permitting, as well as the final approval of a draft Medical Marijuana Task Force...

By Eugene Davidovich Today on the agenda for the San Diego Planning Commission, the determination for zoning of a medical marijuana cooperative was to be discussed. New Earth Beginnings a local non profit cooperative had applied and paid the required $5,010.00 to have the commission examine the issue. The official agenda item read as follows: NEW EARTH...

by Eugene Davidovich “Office of the Mayor will be involved in the final decisions once that point in the process is reached” Ron Lacey, Office of the Mayor San Diego ASA and many in the city have urged the Mayor to participate in the task force. The Mayor’s office has issued a statement : The City Council has taken the lead on this matter and the...

Was the D.A. leveling with us at her pot-raid news conference? By Dave Maass After the Sept. 9 raids on 14 medical cannabis dispensaries, District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis issued a press release gloating about how she shut down the operations of “drug dealers.” Yet, Dumanis provided very little evidence to back up her blanket claims. CityBeat presents this...

For Immediate Release: October 27th, 2009 “Truth in Trials” Act corrects unfair trials, complements recent DOJ guidelines Washington, D.C. — U.S. Representative Sam Farr (D-CA) and more than twenty original bipartisan co-sponsors introduced legislation today that would allow defendants in medical marijuana cases the ability to use medical...