Feb 9, 2010

Medical Marijuana ExtravaGANJA! TONIGHT FEB 9, Doors Open 8:30pm La Jolla Comedy Store 916 Pearl St. La Jolla, CA 92037 Howard Dover, The Comedy Store, San Diego Americans for Safe Access and NUG Magazine presents a night of comedy! (This event is being held instead of the monthly ASA MEETING. The monthly ASA meeting will NOT be held TONIGHT, 2010 at the Mt....

Feb 7, 2010

By: Eugene Davidovich Jovan Jackson of Answerdam Collective is a medical cannabis patient, navy veteran, and victim of two Operation Green Rx raids, part of District Attorney (DA) Bonnie Dumanis’ effort to overturn Proposition 215 and eradicate safe access to medical cannabis in San Diego. The first raid on Answerdam occurred in August of 2008, the second...

Part 1 of 2: Law Enforcement Encounters The California Supreme Court issued a unanimous published decision in People v. Kelly, striking down what it considered unconstitutional legislative limits on how much medical marijuana patients can possess and cultivate. The decision also affirms protection from arrest and prosecution for patients who both possess a...

By Larry Sweet The MMTF today considered the ramifications of the Kelly decision. It became clear that the local limits to possession and plants needed to be reviewed. A sub-committee was formed and four MMTF members will go over the current ordinances and bring back recommendations to the group in two weeks. The issue of auditing and sufficient declaration of...

Jan 31, 2010

February 2, 2010 – 6:00-9:00 p.m. Joyce Beers Community Center 3900 Vermont Street San Diego, CA 92103 On Tuesday February 2, 2010 the Uptown Community Planning Committee (CPC) will discuss the request by the city council of the planning group to review and comment on the medical marijuana task force recommendations. The Uptown CPC will vote on recommending...

Jan 25, 2010

Nathan Archer needs your support, lets pack the courtroom! By: Eugene Davidovich January 26, 2010 – Department 12 San Diego Superior Court 220 W. Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 As part of the ongoing war against medical marijuana in San Diego waged by the District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis, Nathan Archer was arrested in 2006 and charged with cultivation of 98...

The prosecutor in my case is Ms. Theresa Pham, a local Deputy District Attorney that seems to be reporting to and getting her marching orders directly from Bonnie Dumanis in this case. In fact several other Deputy DA’s are working for her on this case, including Romil Tohidi and a number graduate law clerks that have now been retained by th prosecution to...

Exemption from arrest and prosecution upheld for state-issued ID cardholders San Francisco, CA — The California Supreme Court issued a unanimous published decision today in People v. Kelly, striking down what it considered unconstitutional legislative limits on how much medical marijuana patients can possess and cultivate. Today’s decision also...

Jan 20, 2010

Tiffani Kjeldergaard a legitimate medical cannabis patient in January of 2009 was sentenced to probation on a non drug related offense. She continued to use her legal medication and tested positive for THC on drug tests conducted by the probation department until June of 2009, when the probation department decided to stop by her house for a safety check. As with...

September 9, 2009 – Operation Green Rx victim Sebastian Maselli receives order for Return of Property! Sebastian Maselli was a founding member of Healing Dragon Collective which was raided on September 9, 2009 part of Bonnie Dumanis’ effort to eradicate safe access to medical marijuana in San Diego County. He was arrested, property seized, and life...

By: Rocky Neptun A seemingly dysfunctional San Diego City Council voted 7 to 1 on January 5, to stall many more months deciding the mere basics of regulating medical marijuana dispensaries by rejecting the modest recommendations of its own task force. The transparency of its motives in setting up the task force rather than having staff prepare ordinances, shows...

(CNN) — The New Jersey legislature voted Monday to make that state the 14th in the country to approve marijuana for medicinal use, pending the governor’s signature. Gov. Jon Corzine, who leaves office next week, has said he would sign the bill. Two years after the bill was introduced to the legislature, the New Jersey Compassionate Medical Marijuana...

The outcome of legal victories by Americans for Safe Access (ASA) could be seen again last week, when Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge William Sterling ruled that the California Highway Patrol (CHP) must return sixty pounds of medical cannabis confiscated during a traffic stop. ASA successfully sued the CHP to stop illegal confiscation of medical cannabis...

As part of San Diego American’s for Safe Access continuing efforts to Stop Operation Green Rx a SD ASA member today presented us with a document, which can be found on the city’s website here: http://docs.sandiego.gov/councildockets_attach/2007/October/10-30-2007%2520Item%2520S106.pdf This document talks about a $342,590 grant that was used to pay for...

Mr. Jackson of Answerdam Collective is a legitimate medical cannabis patient and victim of two Operation Green Rx raids, part of Bonnie Dumanis’ effort to eradicate medical cannabis from San Diego. The first raid occurred in August of 2008, the second on September 9, 2009. Last month, Mr. Jackson was tried and vindicated of felony charges related to the first...