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Your ASA membership shows your support for our mission to ensure safe and legal access to cannabis (marijuana)...

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This section provides patients, attorneys, and pro se defendants with legal resources. Lawyer Directory Below you will find a...

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When ASA is alerted by the community that a raid is progress, all ASA staff stop their work and turn their attention to the encounter and...

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Are you – or a patient you know of – being victimized by the fierce fight against local medical marijuana laws?  If so, we...

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Recent Posts

Jovan Jackson’s Medical Marijuana Trial Begins, Following Lengthy and Revealing Jury Selection Process

Jovan Jackson’s Medical Marijuana Trial Begins, Following Lengthy and Revealing Jury Selection Process

Oct 27, 2013

San Diego CA – Opening statements have ended and the prosecutor has called two witnesses in Jovan Jackson’s third medical cannabis trial.  This, after a telling day and a half of jury selection where we heard at least six potential jurors stand up and say they would not convict on unjust drug laws, resulting in their dismissal from being considered as...

Medical Marijuana Patients’ Defense Counsel Compels Judge to Review Sheriff Deputy File for Evidence of Misconduct

Medical Marijuana Patients’ Defense Counsel Compels Judge to Review Sheriff Deputy File for Evidence of Misconduct

Oct 19, 2013

By Terrie Best – Court Support Coordinator for San Diego Americans for Safe Access Vista, CA – Yesterday medical cannabis patients Dennis and Deborah Little were in the San Diego County Courthouse in Vista as their attorneys Lance Rogers and Logan Fairfax argued a Pitchess Motion asking the court to examine the personnel records of a Deputy Sheriff who...

Another Medical Marijuana Defendant Being Bullied to Plead Guilty by Department of Justice

Another Medical Marijuana Defendant Being Bullied to Plead Guilty by Department of Justice

Oct 18, 2013

by Terrie Best – Court Support Coordinator for San Diego Americans for Safe Access San Diego CA – Just days after legal cannabis patient RonnieChang’s federal incarceration came to an end freeing him to return to his elderly mother, Crispin Price sits in court with his attorney, federal defender, Bridget Kennedy and hopes he will not have to go to...

Federal Medical Marijuana Defendant Ronnie Chang Reaches Plea Bargain with U.S. Justice Department

Federal Medical Marijuana Defendant Ronnie Chang Reaches Plea Bargain with U.S. Justice Department

Oct 14, 2013

  By Terrie Best – San Diego Americans for Safe Access Court Support Coordinator San Diego CA – Medical cannabis patient and collective operator, Ronnie Chang’s ordeal with the federal government will come to an end on Tuesday, October 15, 2013, after spending over a year behind bars in federal custody awaiting a trial that was to have started...