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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

National Youth HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

National Youth HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

Apr 10, 2013

Today is the first-ever National Youth HIV/AIDS Awareness Day! Basic research has also demonstrated that derivatives of the cannabis plant hold promise for for slowing the progression of HIV/AIDS as well as treat nausea, appetite loss, pain and anxiety. Share and Like to show your support for Safe...

Judge Says From Bench He Believes Seriously Ill Medical Marijuana Patients Were Not Selling Their Medical Marijuana but Binds Them Over for Trial Anyway

Judge Says From Bench He Believes Seriously Ill Medical Marijuana Patients Were Not Selling Their Medical Marijuana but Binds Them Over for Trial Anyway

Mar 29, 2013

By Terrie Best, San Diego Americans for Safe Access Court Support Coordinator San Diego, CA – Dennis and Deborah Little are a retired couple in their mid-sixties who decided to obtain doctor recommendations to grow and use their own medical cannabis to fight symptoms of arthritis, neuropathy, cancer and AIDS. But, in the fall of 2012, San Diego Sheriff’s...

Medical Marijuana Seminar: Law Science and Advocacy

Medical Marijuana Seminar: Law Science and Advocacy

Mar 24, 2013

This one day seminar will focus on medical cannabis law, science, and advocacy featuring two expert attorneys, a doctor and a registered nurse. The experts will discuss recent state court decisions and federal lawsuits which have changed the landscape for medical cannabis lawyers, cultivators, providers, and patients, aligning cannabis with the natural products...

Heidi Whitman Patient Interview FOX 5 San Diego

Medical marijuana patient and advocate Heidi Whitman discusses her condition, medical cannabis use, and weighs in on the city’s proposed ordinance. Aired 3/19/2013 – 5pm Evening News