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...

By: Kris Hermes (ASA), Eugene Davidovich (SD ASA) San Diego County Board of Supervisors issued a proposed ordinance that they would like to see adopted in the County of San Diego. The ordinance is supposed to provide guidelines, regulations, and zoning for medical marijuana dispensing collectives and cooperatives. This proposed ordinance instead of helping...

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...

Join us today at the San Diego Convention Center! San Diego Americans for Safe Access will be participating in the Medical Marijuana Education Expo at the San Diego Convention Center today, March 27th. Members of ASA will be speaking at 2pm however the convention is an all day event. Stop by and say hello to San Diego ASA! Meet and Greet with the Activist...

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...

The San Diego Medical Marijuana Task Force meets again this Friday 9am -11am 202 C St. San Diego A 92101 (map) City Council Committee Room, 12th floor of the City Administration Building. The task force is working on recommendations to the San Diego City Council with regards to medical marijuana regulations and zoning ordinances. This Friday it is critical that...

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...

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...

Mar 8, 2010

By: Eugene Davidovich On March 9, 2010 at 9am in Department 55 at the San Diego Superior Courthouse, day 2 of my trial will begin. District attorney Bonnie Dumanis’ office has filed a mountain of motions in limine with the court, all of which will be heard on the 9th in front of Judge So. Motions in limine are requests made by both sides to the Judge before...

Dan Murphy of San Diego speaks out about San Diego DA Bonnie Dumanis and her war against medical marijuana. A patients shares his...

Mar 4, 2010

By: Eugene Davidovich FRIDAY 3/5/2010 @ 1:30 pm – Department 11 (3rd floor) El Cajon Court House – 250 East Main Street El Cajon CA Please come out and support Tiffany in her struggle to get her marijuana back by attending the return of property hearing Friday MARCH 5. Tiffani Kjeldergaard a legitimate medical cannabis patient in January of 2009 was...

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...

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...