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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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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

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

Medical Marijuana Advocates Rally Around Terminally Ill Medical Marijuana Patient Defendants Today in Vista Court as Prosecutor Admits to Receiving over Sixty Calls From Citizens Requesting Compassion for Defendants

Medical Marijuana Advocates Rally Around Terminally Ill Medical Marijuana Patient Defendants Today in Vista Court as Prosecutor Admits to Receiving over Sixty Calls From Citizens Requesting Compassion for Defendants

Mar 21, 2013

By Terrie Best San Diego Americans for Safe Access Court Support Coordinator San Diego, CA – Dennis Little, an arthritis sufferer and his wife Deborah Little, who has lived with HIV/AIDS for twenty years and is battling cancer, were in court today – for what was to be a preliminary examination – along with their attorneys Lance Rogers,...

After Defeats in Both Superior Court and Appellate Court, San Diego District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis Will Prosecute Medical Marijuana Patient Jovan Jackson Again

After Defeats in Both Superior Court and Appellate Court, San Diego District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis Will Prosecute Medical Marijuana Patient Jovan Jackson Again

Mar 20, 2013

By Terrie Best – San Diego Americans for Safe Access Court Support Coordinator San Diego, CA – Jovan Jackson a medical cannabis patient, Navy veteran, and former operator of Answerdam, a medical marijuana collective in San Diego, was in court yesterday to learn his prosecutorial fate after the Fourth District Court of Appeals issued an order to the...

Proposed City of San Diego Dispensary Regulations

Proposed City of San Diego Dispensary Regulations

Mar 15, 2013

Mayor Filner Proposed 2% tax, 5k annual licensing fee, and collectives / cooperatives in limited commercial and industrial zones Over the years, medical marijuana patients in San Diego have endured a lack of representation in local governments, raids, lawsuits, eradication efforts, federal interference, and outright misinformation about the issue....