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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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ASA Legal

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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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Report a Case

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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

San Diego Superior Court Judge Threatens Citizen Observers with Arrest for Advocacy in Medical Marijuana Sentence Hearing

San Diego Superior Court Judge Threatens Citizen Observers with Arrest for Advocacy in Medical Marijuana Sentence Hearing

Jul 30, 2013

By Terrie Best, San Diego Americans for Safe Access Court Support Coordinator July 30, 2013 San Diego, CA – In a weird and wholly inappropriate display of rage today in the downtown courthouse, Judge Peter Gallagher ranted at defendant Victor Marion for choosing to have medical cannabis supporters in the courtroom for his sentencing, leaving the defendant in...

Motion to Quash Search Warrant Denied by San Diego Superior Court Judge, Prosecutor Claims All Medical Marijuana Patients Are Guilty Until Proven Innocent

Motion to Quash Search Warrant Denied by San Diego Superior Court Judge, Prosecutor Claims All Medical Marijuana Patients Are Guilty Until Proven Innocent

Jul 23, 2013

By Terrie Best – San Diego Americans for Safe Access Court Support Coordinator July 23, 2013 San Diego, CA – Last week, in San Diego Superior Court, Attorneys Lance Rogers and Logan Fairfax argued their clients, – medical cannabis patients and seriously ill Dennis and Deborah Littles’ – right to privacy was violated when Sheriffs flew over...

San Diego Superior Court Judge Denies Medical Marijuana Collective Cultivation Defense, Defendant Headed for Appeal

San Diego Superior Court Judge Denies Medical Marijuana Collective Cultivation Defense, Defendant Headed for Appeal

Jul 20, 2013

  By Terrie Best – San Diego Americans for Safe Access Court Support Coordinator   July 20, 2013   San Diego, CA – In a grueling week-long trial, a superior court Judge prohibited defense counsel from bringing evidence to support that cannabis patients may lawfully collectively cultivate medical cannabis under the Medical...

Advocates Appeal Marijuana’s Federal Status as a Dangerous Drug with No Medical Value to U.S. Supreme Court

Patient advocacy group argues that over 200 peer-reviewed studies are more than adequate to show medical efficacy Washington, DC — Medical marijuana patient advocacy group Americans for Safe Access (ASA) filed a petition for writ of certiorari today with the U.S. Supreme Court to appeal a January Circuit Court decision that maintained...