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...

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...

Today we received confirmation that California’s Finest is Open for their members/patients, and was not raided by the NTF/DEA. There was a family emergency that occurred and forced the facility to close temporarily. While the location was closed, the lock was picked and someone broke into the front area of the collective, therefore the doors to the reception...

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...

Joseph Nunes sentencing has been postponed to April 19th at 9:30 am. Mr. Nunes is a victim of the continued eradication efforts of the San Diego District Attorney and the DEA. He has been charged in Federal court and forced to agree to a plea bargain to avoid years of incarceration for something that is legal under state law. He is one of the founding members of...

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...

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...

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...