San Diego Mayor Bob Filner recently proposed an ordinance to allow medical marijuana dispensaries to operate in commercial and industrial areas for a $5,000 yearly permit fee and a 2-percent city tax on sales. Eugene Davidovich of San Diego Americans for Safe Access and Scott Chipman with San Diegans for Safe Neighborhoods discuss with NBC 7’s Mari Payton...

Mar 15, 2013

Mayor Filner Proposed 2% tax, 5k annual licensing fee, and collectives / cooperatives in limited commercial and industrial zones Over the years, medical marijuana patients in San Diego have endured a lack of representation in local governments, raids, lawsuits, eradication efforts, federal interference, and outright misinformation about the issue....

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...

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...

The Mayor’s proposal is not yet ready to move forward to Council, it will not be heard at the 3/5/2013 City Council meeting, and will likely be one or two weeks later. Stay tuned for more information. https://www.facebook.com/events/559741724050308/

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: 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...

Dec 29, 2012

We are pleased to announce Bridging the Gap Between Public & Policy – 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 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...

By: Terrie Best – San Diego Americans for Safe Access San Diego CA – Hidden in the clouds of vapor in some reporter’s desk is a story whose magnitude was almost missed in the hubbub of the 2012 presidential election. On October 24th, 2012, the Fourth District Court of Appeals in San Diego overturned a medical marijuana dispensary operator’s...

Final Results for all the medical marijuana initiatives in San Diego County: PROP H – CITY OF DEL MAR Regulation Med Marijuana Reporting 5 of 5 at 100.0% counted. NO 1053 56.40 % YES 814 43.60 % PROP S – City of Imperial Beach Med. Marijuana Dispensaries. Reporting 12 of 12 at 100.0% counted. NO 2869 59.76 % YES 1932 40.24 % PROP T – CITY OF...

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...

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...