TODAY, we need everyone to email the below letter to all of the following email addresses: joseph.farace@sdcounty.ca.gov dplu@sdcounty.ca.gov Greg.cox@sdcounty.ca.gov dianne.jacob@sdcounty.ca.gov Pam.slater@sdcounty.ca.gov ron-roberts@sdcounty.ca.gov bill.horn@sdcounty.ca.gov Although the official Public Input deadline has passed, we still have time to let the...

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...

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...

San Diego County has been at the forefront of overturning proposition 215 and SB420. This fight has included a case that made it all the way to the Supreme Court in a resounding defeat for the county. Still, the San Diego County board refuses to respect state law. In an attempt to effectively zone out and ban access to medicine for patients in San Diego, the...

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...

Mar 19, 2010

By: Don Duncan, Americans for Safe Access California Assemblymember Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco) has introduced a bill that will exempt supplies used to grow or ingest medical cannabis from the state’s drug paraphernalia laws. These supplies are currently sold to medical cannabis patients under the pretense that they are being used to grow other plants or for...

WHEN: 12noon – 2pm March, 26 2010 WHERE: 940 Front Street San Diego CA WHAT: National Day of Protest against NTF and DEA raids on medical marijuana patients and collectives. In one week we will have the opportunity to tell those who seek to rule over us that we are not happy with the way they are treating us. The raids by the DEA and NTF of San Diego are not...

Court Support – THURSDAY 3/18/2010 – 10:00am People V. Davidovich Trial Day 8 – Department 55 – 220 W Broadway San Diego CA 92101 Thursday, March 18, 2010 I will resume the stand and continue my testimony in front of a jury of twelve peers. Tuesday March, 15th, I spent all day on the stand being cross examined by Theresa Pham the prosecutor in my...

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...

By: Eugene Davidovich Today I also learned the name of the new witness that the prosecution has placed on the witness list against me! It is a superstar witness that a lot of us have seen on TV! Many of us have come to know him as the “poster child” of medical marijuana eradication efforts from Showtimes famous documentary “In Pot We Trust”. San Diego...

Feb 26, 2010

This morning Jovan Jackson again went to San Diego Superior court for a preliminary hearing on the second medical marijuana trial related to the Operation Green Rx Raids orchestrated by Bonnie Dumanis in cooperation with DEA through the Integrated Narcotics Task Force. San Diego ASA membership turned out in numbers to support Mr. Jackson today filing more than...

COURT SUPPORT TODAY – Jovan Jackson (second trial – preliminary hearing) Today Mr. Jovan Jackson faces the preliminary hearing for the second medical marijuana trial against him. Mr. Rogers will argue a motion to dismiss the case based on prosecutorial discrimination; otherwise known as a Murgia Motion. The motion will show how Mr. Jackson was...

By: Eugene Davidovich, February 19, 2010 This morning Lance Rogers, Attorney for Jovan Jacksons argued a return of property motion in front of Superior Court Judge Bashant. The courtroom had over a dozen of Jovan’s Supporters a large majority of whom were active members of San Diego Americans for Safe Access. After hearing the arguments from both sides, Judge...