This Friday come out and let the COUNTY planning commission know how we feel about the illegal county ordinance being proposed. They will be voting on the San Diego County Ordinance originally proposed last month and revised last week. Here is the revised version: http://www.sdcounty.ca.gov/dplu/docs/PC/2010/100514-2.pdf The ordinance effectively bans medical...

MONDAY 5/10/10 – DAY OF ACTION – COURT SUPPORT Come out and support your fellow community members when they need your help most! On Monday 5/10/10 two of our own are going to court in San Diego. The first is an arraignment in state court from a raid a couple months ago in an Encinitas home, and the other is Joseph Nunes Sentencing in Federal Court from the...

By: Dan Murphy, San Diego ASA Many in the community thought that since losing twice at a Jury trial, San Diego District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis’ office would reconsider further prosecuting and arresting legitimate medical marijuana patients. Unfortunately this is far from the case. Laura Reindel of Encinitas is being charged in state court for cultivation and...

May 3, 2010

By: Larry Sweet, San Diego ASA The biannual Patients Out of Time Conference was held this year in Providence, Rhode Island. The conference keynote speaker was the discoverer of THC and eventually other Cannabinoid, Dr. Raphael Mechoulam. There were over thirty speakers packed into a two-day conference so the information flow was intense. Add to that the fact...

May 2, 2010

By: Dan Murphy, San Diego ASA The old ways are dead. You can no longer railroad the disenfranchised into easy plea deals. You can no longer ignore REAL crime and instead target the sick. You can no longer confiscate the property of law abiding citizens. You can no longer acquire federal grants to eradicate voilent asian gangs and use the money to further your...

Today the Federal reset the motion hearing date to May 19th at 10:30am in Courtroom 15. 940 Front St. San Diego CA 92101 This will be the day the judge makes his ruling on the motion for a medical defense in Federal Court. The Judge cancelled the April 26 Trial Date, and said he would not set the court date as the length of the trial and preparation would depend...

Apr 2, 2010

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Today is April 2 – the final day of the San Diego County Department of Planning and Land Use’s public comment period on the awful draft mmj dispensary ordinance. In case we are not successful in getting the public comment period extended, let’s make sure our objections on the record. I’ve draft a letter based on the comments SD ASA sent out earlier this...

Today we received confirmation that California’s Finest is Open for their members/patients, and was not raided by the NTF/DEA. There was a family emergency that occurred and forced the facility to close temporarily. While the location was closed, the lock was picked and someone broke into the front area of the collective, therefore the doors to the reception...

On Wednesday March 24, 2010 at 2pm the San Diego City Committee on Land Use and Housing will take up the report from the San Diego Medical Marijuana Task Force (MMTF) as an Action Item. The committee will be discussing the MMTF Zoning Recommendations and will consider the input of the Community Planning Groups in deciding on what to recommend to the San Diego...

On Wednesday March 24, 2010 at 2pm the San Diego City Committee on Land Use and Housing will take up the report from the San Diego Medical Marijuana Task Force (MMTF) as an Action Item. The committee will be discussing the MMTF Zoning Recommendations and will consider the input of the Community Planning Groups in deciding on what to recommend to the San Diego...

Greg Moran, San Diego Union Tribune Tuesday, March 16, 2010 James Stacy, the Vista medical marijuana dispensary owner facing federal drug charges, has lost an intriguing bid to have the charges against him thrown out. Stacy had argued that President Obama, when he was Candidate Obama, had basically said he wouldn’t prosecute medical marijuana providers who...

Today we have received confirmation that California’s Finest Meds Collective located at 1133 Broadway in San Diego was in fact closed down. According to eyewitness testimony, several unmarked vehicles pulled up to the collective yesterday, March 16, 2010 and proceeded to confiscate paperwork, medicine, as well as a number of other items inside the...

by The Medicine Hunter If the idea of having a marijuana deficiency sounds laughable to you, a growing body of science points at exactly such a possibility. Scientists have known that the active psychoactive compound in marijuana is THC, which is short for tetrahydrocannabinol. In August 1990, researchers reported in the journal Nature the discovery of receptors...

Court Support Requested – THURSDAY 3/11/2010 – 10am Department 55 – 220 W Broadway San Diego CA 92101 Today, Wednesday March 10, 2010 all in limine motions were completed and a jury was selected in the medical marijuana trial of People v Davidovich. On Thursday opening statement will begin from both the prosecution and the defense. This will be the...