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,...

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...

Over the last several months our chapter has actively been working on strategic planning for next year. At both the November and December chapter meetings, an idea that every strategic planning group suggested was the need to open dialogue with our newly elected officials in the city, the goal of the dialogue being to advance regulations for safe access to...

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....

Dec 21, 2012

By: PharmLabs Pharmlabs is one of many new and independent businesses striving to legitimize the medical marijuana industry. Established January 2012 in San Diego, California, PharmLabs is a professional laboratory that provides the medical marijuana community with a standardized platform of testing and analytical services to ensure patients have access to...

Oct 16, 2012

Over the last few months we have seen safe access taken away from thousands of legitimate patients in San Diego through raids, arrests, and intimidation by our local City Attorney Jan Goldsmith, District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis and U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy. The community however, has not sat back quietly and allowed this to happen. This November, there are four...

Oct 2, 2012

The October, 2012 monthly San Diego ASA chapter meeting is almost here! Join us Tuesday October 9, 2012 – 6:30pm at the La Jolla Brew House and Restaurant, located at 7536 Fay Ave, La Jolla, 92037 (Meeting is held in the back room of the brew house) RSVP on Facebook! Starting at 6:30pm to 7:30pm we will be holding a Happy Hour / Meet & Greet, where we...

Sep 20, 2012

  Today medical marijuana patients, supporters and advocates rallied at the San Diego Obama for America Campaign Headquarters against Obama’s aggressive enforcement policy on medical marijuana. The San Diego rally was part of a nationwide action organized by Americans for Safe Access, the nation’s largest medical marijuana advocacy group. “President...

Sep 20, 2012

Join activists on September 20th – 5pm at the San Diego Obama Campaign Headquarters located at 4660 El Cajon Blvd. San Diego CA 92115 We want to remind Obama of his campaign promises to our community, and that he has the power to stop the attacks on patients and safe access all over the nation. In coordination with our Camp WakeUpObama summer campaign, San...

By Terrie Best – San Diego Americans for Safe Access San Diego, CA – Over 60 senior citizens put the Edward Schwartz Federal Courthouse on its ear by forming a long line outside the building, donning green medical cannabis ribbons of support, and setting off metal detectors with their canes and walkers. Their mission: To support Ronnie Chang, Hal Pilotte...

Aug 29, 2012

On November 6th, 2012 Imperial Beach voters will choose whether to allow criminalization of the most vulnerable citizens to continue through the city’s draconian ban on safe access to medical cannabis, or to protect sick and dying patients by repealing the ban and creating tough zoning and operational requirements as defined in Prop S. Local prohibitionists...

Aug 16, 2012

Americans for Safe Access (ASA) needs your help to get 100,000 of these great new posters up in “swing states” during this Presidential election season. We need to raise $12,000 to print the posters. Can you help by making a special donation today? The glossy 17 x 22 inch posters ask a pointed question: Can broken promises lose an election? That question...

By: Eugene Davidovich Background: On October 7, 2011, at a press conference in Sacramento, US Attorney Laura Duffy, along with several other US Attorneys, announced a statewide crackdown on medical cannabis cooperatives, collectives, gardens, and others. Without citing any specific violations in state law, Duffy’s office claimed all were out of compliance...

San Diego, CA – The San Diego chapter of Americans for Safe Access (ASA), the nation’s largest medical cannabis advocacy group, working with LGBT activism group Canvass for a Cause and as part of the The Yes Men’s “Yes Labs” project, released a series of satirical press releases on Tuesday which indicated that U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy would begin...