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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

Calling All Former Answerdam Members

Calling All Former Answerdam Members

Oct 11, 2013

Is there such a thing as triple jeopardy? Tragically, there is in San Diego under District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis’ reign. This month, the third trial of Jovan Jackson will begin in San Diego Superior Court. Jovan Jackson, a legitimate medical cannabis patient and Navy veteran was a directing member of Answerdam, a medical marijuana collective located in...

Jury Instructions Complete in Preparation for Medical Marijuana Patient and Collective Operator Jovan Jackson’s Trial

Jury Instructions Complete in Preparation for Medical Marijuana Patient and Collective Operator Jovan Jackson’s Trial

Oct 7, 2013

By Terrie Best – Court Support Coordinator for The San Diego Chapter of Americans for Safe Access San Diego – Medical marijuana patient and Navy veteran Jovan Jackson, along with his attorney, Lance Rogers assisted by Logan Fairfax and Rezwan Khan were in court Thursday and Friday, October 3rd and 4th 2013, to hammer out jury instructions and motions in...

New Medical-Cannabis Plan is a Prescription for Restriction

New Medical-Cannabis Plan is a Prescription for Restriction

Oct 2, 2013

 This morning San Diego CityBeat released the map analysis of the proposed ordinance for the City of San Diego regulating medical marijuana dispensaries. The ordinance Interim Mayor Todd Gloria promised to bring to council in January, and one currently going through community planning groups. New medical-cannabis plan is a prescription for restriction Draft...

San Diego City Council to Discuss Medical Marijuana Oct 1

San Diego City Council to Discuss Medical Marijuana Oct 1

Sep 30, 2013

Thanks to the tenacity of Attorney Hud Collins, the San Diego City Council has placed the issue of medical marijuana on the docket for tomorrow’s council meeting! To the council, Attorney Collins wrote; “with the announcing of the Department of Justice’s new guidelines announcing a hands’ Off of recreational States’ and Medical...