Medical marijuana patient and advocate Heidi Whitman discusses her condition, medical cannabis use, and weighs in on the city’s proposed ordinance. Aired 3/19/2013 – 5pm Evening News

Mar 11, 2013

Join other like minded advocates, concerned citizens, and medical cannabis patients tomorrow night at the La Jolla Brew House for the chapter’s monthly meeting. Find out the latest medical marijuana news from across the nation, state, county and city. See the latest draft of the City of San Diego’s medical marijuana ordinance to be proposed at City Council...

Mar 8, 2013

On March 26th voters in San Diego’s District 4 will be casting ballots for a new representative on the City Council. The special election was scheduled after Council President Tony Young resigned last year to take a job as CEO of the San Diego Chapter of the Red Cross. Around the same time as District 4 voters are casting ballots, City Council will begin...

Mar 6, 2013

SUPPORT HR 689 AND HR 710 Representatives Earl Blumenauer and Sam Farr recently introduced legislation that will end the federal conflict with state medical cannabis programs. Blumenauer’s bill, titled the States’ Medical Marijuana Patient Protections Act (HR 689), will move cannabis out of Schedule 1 of the Controlled Substances Act and allow for medical...

Mar 3, 2013

William R. Sherman, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) San Diego Field Division has declared an outright war on medical marijuana patients in San Diego. Without any regard for State law or local regulations, Sherman has commandeered local law enforcement to enforce federal law and has executed hundreds of raids on medical...

Feb 26, 2013

San Diego Mayor Bob Filner discusses the need for congress and the Obama administration to stop prosecuting medical marijuana patients, respects states medical marijuana laws, and to reschedule...

Feb 8, 2013

San Diego Chapter of Americans for Safe Access brings you the City’s premier Prop 215 party on Friday, February 15th! Sponsored by PharmLabs – www.sdpharmlabs.com (Always accurate, affordable and fast medical marijuana lab testing and analysis) Join us for a night of food, music, medicating, and more! — $20 at the door — Doors open at 3pm...

Jan 3, 2013

I hope everyone had a safe and happy holiday! With 2012 behind us it’s time to refocus our efforts on permanently creating safe access here in San Diego and helping Americans for Safe Access achieve the same across the nation. To help kick off the national effort this year, ASA will be holding a National Medical Cannabis Unity Conference in Washington D.C....

Nov 29, 2012

By: Kris Hermes, Americans for Safe Access Earlier this month, an overwhelming sixty-three percent of Massachusetts voters approved Ballot Question 3and, in so doing, became the country’s 18th state to pass a medical marijuana law. Massachusetts is now the latest in a growing number of states that are choosing to implement their own public health laws,...

Nov 24, 2012

We are pleased to announce Harnessing Our Power for Victory – Americans for Safe Access National Medical Cannabis Unity Conference, taking place February 22nd – 25th at the Mayflower Renaissance Hotel in Washington, D.C. Americans for Safe Access and our allies will fight even harder for safe access in 2013. This is our chance to show the Obama...

Nov 2, 2012

By: Eugene Davidovich Imperial Beach, CA – Incumbent City Council member Brian Pat Bilbray today, issued an official endorsement in support of Proposition S a voter initiative slated to appear on the November 6th ballot in the City. “With my sister having to use medical marijuana to treat her stage three melanoma this issue is very emotional and personal...

Oct 21, 2012

With the election only 14 days away, we urgently need your help in Imperial Beach! Aside form the mass mailer full of reefer madness propaganda and unsubstantiated lies about what Proposition S would do, distributed to all the voters in the city, the opposition has started putting up ‘NO on S’ yard signs throughout the community. As the NO signs started...

Last week, Joe Elford, Chief Counsel for Americans for Safe Access was in town to argue the Jackson medical marijuana dispensary case before the Appellate Courts. Watch the exclusive interview with Mr. Elford where he discussed the hearing and the impact of the case on medical marijuana dispensaries in California minutes after arguing the case: Interview by:...

Oct 18, 2012

By: Joe Elford Just hours after the U.S. Court of Appeal for the D.C. Circuit heard oral arguments in the federal landmark case Americans for Safe Access v. Drug Enforcement Administration, the court ordered supplemental briefing on the issue of “standing.” In a rare move for a case that has been covered by the Associated Press, Reuters, CNN, Bloomberg News,...

Oct 16, 2012

by: Jonathan Bair, ASA (republished from: ASA’s Blog) This morning, the federal Appeals Court for the DC Circuit heard an appeal in the case called Americans for Safe Access v Drug Enforcement Administration. The case is an appeal of the DEA’s rejection of a petition filed in 2002 seeking to change the placement of marijuana as a Schedule I drug per the...