SAN DIEGO – Wednesday, June 23, 2010, at 9am the San Diego County Board of Supervisors will meet to discuss and vote on a proposed ordinance regulating medical marijuana facilities in the unincorporated areas of San Diego County. The proposed ordinance severely limits patients’ access to medical marijuana in the unincorporated areas of San Diego County....

THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY AND NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN DIEGO will be meeting TODAY – May 26, 2010 at 2pm to hear reports from the San Diego City Attorney and the Independent Budget Analyst about the San Diego Medical Marijuana Recommendations. This morning the San Diego Union Tribune article said “A committee of...

Eugene Davidovich, San Diego Americans for Safe Access SAN DIEGO – The Office of the Independent Budget Analyst (IBA) on May 24, 2010 issued a 15 page report (IBA Report 10-45) on the Medical Marijuana Medical Marijuana Regulatory Structure Costs and Fees. “This report will expand upon the discussion within (IBA Report 10-15) with specific...

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...

Drug Policy Alliance & San Diego Americans for Safe Access www.drugpolicy.org www.safeaccesssd.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Margaret Dooley-Sammuli (213) 291-4190 April 1, 2010 Eugene Davidovich (619) 621-8446 San Diego County Medical Marijuana Ordinance Developed in Secret Advocacy Groups Condemn the Lack of Transparency, Call on County to Consult...

Restrictive provisions amount to de facto ban on otherwise legal dispensaries Los Angeles, CA — The country’s largest medical marijuana advocacy organization, Americans for Safe Access (ASA), filed a lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles today, claiming that certain provisions in a recently adopted regulatory ordinance would shut down virtually all...

Eugene Davidovich, Nug Magazine Sebastian Maselli, a founding member of Healing Dragon Collective, suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), chronic back, knee, and joint pain, all as a result of his military service with the US Marine Corps. Sebastian writes “The Marine Corps definitely kept me in good physical shape, but at a cost”. “While in...

Jan 3, 2010

By: Terrie Best, SDASA January 03, 2010  As a part of San Diego Americans for Safe Access (SDASA) efforts to Stop Operation Green Rx, I recently requested and attended a county meeting along with some prominent drug policy reformists and recovery advocates from the San Diego Community in an effort to ascertain why, year after year, county contracted...

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...