Join Steph Sherer, Executive Director and Don Duncan the California Director of Americans for Safe Access in Federal Court today to support James Stacy in his federal Medical Marijuana Trial. What: Federal hearing on whether dispensary operator James Stacy can use medical marijuana and state law as a defense at trial When: MONDAY, June 14, 2010 at 2:00pm Where:...

Jun 12, 2010

AMERICANS FOR SAFE ACCESS – JOIN STEPH SHERER FOR A STRATEGY & NETWORKING WORKSHOP Sunday, June 13, 1-4pm -Please RSVP at: http://www.safeaccessnow.org/SanDiegoWorkshop ASA is hosting a training and networking gathering on Sunday, June 13, 2010 from 1 to 4pm in San Diego. The purpose of this meeting is to bring medical cannabis leaders, and activists...

Jun 11, 2010

Tonight from 7pm-9pm come out to Vista and join patients and concerned citizens for the North County San Diego ASA Meeting. We have a great meeting planned for tonight with lots of new information about the San Diego County and City medical marijuana regulations as well as the newly release Grand Jury Report! If you missed the last two ASA meeting this week,...

Jun 10, 2010

SAN DIEGO SOUTH BAY AMERICANS FOR SAFE ACCESS MEETING TONIGHT This will be the first South Bay San Diego ASA meeting. The meeting will be held from 6pm-7pm at 1233 Palm Avenue in Imperial Beach hosted by SDASA Advisory Board Member Marcus Boyd. We have a great meeting lined up with information and updates regarding the San Diego Grand Jury report and well as the...

Jun 7, 2010

By John R. Lamb, San Diego CITYBEAT “We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over them, or build with them.” —William Arthur Ward Less than a mile from at least eight medical-marijuana collectives, Marcie Beckett lives in the same modest Pacific Beach home she grew up in with six brothers and sisters. President of her early-’70s...

Marcus Boyd and Eugene Davidovich, San Diego Americans for Safe Access Hello everyone and welcome back to another San Diego Americans for Safe Access news brief. Today we bring you an update to our last news brief titled “Keeping Scales in Compliance for Medical Cannabis Trade in San Diego”. After releasing the information last weekend in that news brief,...

May 25, 2010

Washington, DC — Fifteen Members of Congress sent a letter Friday to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner urging him to issue “written guidance for financial institutions,” which would commit the Department to not targeting those institutions whose account holders are in compliance with state medical marijuana laws. The patient advocate group...

The Committee on Public Safety and Neighborhood Services of The City Council of the City of San Diego, will be meeting on May 26, 2010 at 2pm to hear a report (AGENDA ITEM 10) from the San Diego City Attorney and the Independent Budget Analyst about the San Diego Medical Marijuana Recommendations. The community needs to be there in FULL FORCE to help educate and...

By: Eugene Davidovich and Marcus Boyd SAN DIEGO – In a continuing effort to keep the community safe and in compliance with all possible state, city, and county laws, today we will be discussing the San Diego County requirements for scales and their use at dispensing collectives throughout San Diego. First we want to thank every single collective and...

Listen to Today’s San Diego Americans for Safe Access News Brief! Marcus Boyd and Eugene Davidovich discuss James Stacy Federal Case, National ASA Press Release, and the Truth in Trials Act...

an Diego – The courtroom was packed with James Stacy’s supporters today in San Diego Federal Court, in fact several people had to wait outside of the courtroom as there wasn’t enough seats to accommodate all the supporters. Federal Public Defender Kasha Castillo filed a motion asking for a defense in Mr. Stacy’s case. The judge after hearing a few brief...

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...

May 15, 2010

By: Eugene Davidovich, Terrie Best, James Stacy SAN DIEGO – Medical marijuana patient, collective director, James Dean Stacy, on May 19th, 2010 at 10:30am will be appearing in San Diego Federal Court. His collective, Movement In Action (www.movementinaction.org) was raided on September 9, 2010, in District Attorney (DA) Bonnie Dumanis’ raids on medical...

Friday night May 14th North county ASA meeting was well attended with 15 people participating. Thanks to Green Health for giving us a location for the meeting. 950 E. Vista Way in Vista. The meeting was run by James Dean Stacy a federal defendant who is having court May 19th at 10:30 am in court room 15 940 Front St. Downtown San Diego. James Talked about some...