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...

by The Medicine Hunter If the idea of having a marijuana deficiency sounds laughable to you, a growing body of science points at exactly such a possibility. Scientists have known that the active psychoactive compound in marijuana is THC, which is short for tetrahydrocannabinol. In August 1990, researchers reported in the journal Nature the discovery of receptors...

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...

COURT SUPPORT TODAY – Jovan Jackson (second trial – preliminary hearing) Today Mr. Jovan Jackson faces the preliminary hearing for the second medical marijuana trial against him. Mr. Rogers will argue a motion to dismiss the case based on prosecutorial discrimination; otherwise known as a Murgia Motion. The motion will show how Mr. Jackson was...

I am currently facing a Jury Trial which is scheduled to start Next Week on the 2nd of March. The trial is related to the February 2009 (Operation Endless Summer / Green Rx) raids, orchestrated by District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis and her Cross Jurisdictional Narcotics Task Force (NTF). Today I go to court for a 995 hearing, which is an attempt to get one of the...

By: Larry Sweet, February 19, 2010 Today we discussed possession and plant limits for a while as it was a sub-committee report. It was continued till next meeting as an action item. There was a spirited debate on the necessity of an annual audit and how that cost might impact smaller collectives. In the end we continued a motion that was originally crafted by...

By: Eugene Davidovich, February 19, 2010 This morning Lance Rogers, Attorney for Jovan Jacksons argued a return of property motion in front of Superior Court Judge Bashant. The courtroom had over a dozen of Jovan’s Supporters a large majority of whom were active members of San Diego Americans for Safe Access. After hearing the arguments from both sides, Judge...

Feb 18, 2010

“No legal basis for law enforcement to hold the property” By: Eugene Davidovich, February 18, 2010 “During the investigation of Answerdam, law enforcement confiscated computers, business records, and several pounds of medical marijuana. […] Mr. Jackson was acquitted by a jury and the time period has expired for the District Attorney to appeal, there is...

Feb 17, 2010

Wednesday, February 17, 2010 SACRAMENTO – Researchers from the University of California’s Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research (CMCR) today issued a report showing that there is “reasonable evidence that cannabis is a promising treatment” for some specific, pain-related medical conditions. CMCR’s findings, which were presented today to the California...