Oct 15, 2016

October 10, 2016 San Diego, CA With the stroke of a judge’s pen, Justice has prevailed. Pursuant to Court order, members of San Diego Alternative Care, a lawfully formed medical cannabis Cooperative, retrieved their property last week from the El Cajon Police Department, including 30 pounds of medical cannabis flower, 5 pounds of concentrates, and hundreds...

Oct 15, 2016

October 3, 2016 By Terrie Best – San Diego Americans for Safe Access San Diego, CA – Thursday, a permitted cannabis co-op operator – who was raided by the Narcotic Task Force Team 9 seven days after permitting – braved the downtown police station in order to retrieve the thousands of dollars worth of medicinal cannabis products illegally snatched...

Jun 9, 2016

June 9, 2016 Terrie Best – San Diego Americans for Safe Access San Diego, CA – The Bureau of Medical Marijuana Regulations held a hearing today as is required when crafting commercial regulations in the State of California. The trio of women who currently make up the bureau had already held events in Oakland, Humboldt and Riverside among other places....

Feb 27, 2016

February 27th, 2016 By Terrie Best – San Diego Americans for Safe Access San Diego, CA – Before the superior court in El Cajon is a medical cannabis concentrates case which comes down to this single question for the jury: “Was butane gas used in the defendant’s manufacturing process or wasn’t it?” All of the typical traps San Diego District...

Mar 11, 2015

By Terrie Best – San Diego ASA March 11, 2015 San Diego, CA – Legal medical cannabis patients Mark Gillingham, Jeff Russell and Deviyon Carter were in court today to suffer a preliminary exam at the hands of a San Diego prosecutor in a medical cannabis cultivation case. All three men are patients, have doctor recommendations and are entitled to collectively...

Dec 14, 2013

By Terrie Best – San Diego Chapter of Americans for Safe Access Court Support Coordinator December 14th, 2013 San Diego, CA – In a significant loss for San Diego District Attorney, Bonnie Dumanis, Jovan Jackson, a medical cannabis patient and former Answerdam Collective Operator will serve only three years probation and a handful of months in a work...

DRAFT MARIJUANA ORDINANCE SENT TO MAYOR, CITY COUNCIL On April 23, the City Council provided direction to the Mayor and City Attorney with respect to medical marijuana regulation and enforcement. Among the directions to the City Attorney’s office was to “draft a ‘land-use’ ordinance on medical marijuana nearly identical to 0-20043 (Passed on April 27,...

Did you miss the one day San Diego ASA seminar; Medical Cannabis: Law, Science, and Advocacy? Watch the entire seminar including videos of all the presentations...

Mar 24, 2013

This one day seminar will focus on medical cannabis law, science, and advocacy featuring two expert attorneys, a doctor and a registered nurse. The experts will discuss recent state court decisions and federal lawsuits which have changed the landscape for medical cannabis lawyers, cultivators, providers, and patients, aligning cannabis with the natural products...

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

Message from Don Duncan CA Director of Americans for Safe Access to San Diego ASA

Feb 28, 2013

Change.org Petition to remove Laura Duffy as US Attorney for Southern District Laura E. Duffy was sworn in as the Presidentially-appointed United States Attorney for the Southern District of California on June 2, 2010. Since then, she has waged a vindictive war on legitimate medical marijuana patients in her district. Aside from ordering arrests,...

Join patients, advocates, and concerned citizens on Tuesday, March 5, 2013 at 10am at San Diego City Hall 202 C St. San Diego, CA 92101 That day, City Council will be discussing and voting on a newly written and revised ordinance regulating medical marijuana dispensaries in the City of San Diego. We need all patients and supporters to come out, sign in to speak,...

By Terrie Best – Court Support Coordinator, San Diego Americans for Safe Access February 4, 2013 San Diego, CA – San Diego District Attorney (DA) Bonnie Dumanis made the prosecutorial procedure the punishment today by dragging to the brink of trial Clint Guidry and Cameron Mitchell who committed no other crime but to merely possess medical cannabis for...

By: Eugene Davidovich Last night for the first time in our chapter and city’s history, a sitting mayor attended the monthly chapter meeting. Former Congressman and newly elected Mayor Bob Filner arrived at the La Jolla Brew House around 7:30pm and walked into a packed meeting room where over 100 of you greeted him with cheer and applause. In his initial...