By: Eugene Davidovich, San Diego Americans for Safe Access SAN DIEGO — Wednesday, October 24 a dozen armed, masked NTF agents stormed Next Generation, a legal medical marijuana collective located on San Ysidro Blvd. in San Diego. The raid came just hours after the Court of Appeal for the Fourth Appellate District reversed Jovan Jackson’s conviction. In...
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Proposition S Volunteer – Lit Drop in Imperial Beach

Oct 21, 2012
With the election only 14 days away, we urgently need your help in Imperial Beach! Aside form the mass mailer full of reefer madness propaganda and unsubstantiated lies about what Proposition S would do, distributed to all the voters in the city, the opposition has started putting up ‘NO on S’ yard signs throughout the community. As the NO signs started...
Medical Marijuana Dispensary Appellate Case Update
Last week, Joe Elford, Chief Counsel for Americans for Safe Access was in town to argue the Jackson medical marijuana dispensary case before the Appellate Courts. Watch the exclusive interview with Mr. Elford where he discussed the hearing and the impact of the case on medical marijuana dispensaries in California minutes after arguing the case: Interview by:...
DC Circuit Orders Supplemental Briefing in Federal Landmark Medical Marijuana Case

Oct 18, 2012
By: Joe Elford Just hours after the U.S. Court of Appeal for the D.C. Circuit heard oral arguments in the federal landmark case Americans for Safe Access v. Drug Enforcement Administration, the court ordered supplemental briefing on the issue of “standing.” In a rare move for a case that has been covered by the Associated Press, Reuters, CNN, Bloomberg News,...