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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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Sign-up for Alerts

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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

Attend the Forum and say NOT Dumanis for San Diego County Supervisor D4

Attend the Forum and say NOT Dumanis for San Diego County Supervisor D4

Jan 14, 2018

Dear Friends, As many know, former San Diego District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis is running for County Supervisor District 4. Dumanis has been cruel to medical cannabis patients since she took office in 2003. She and her cross-deputized Narcotic Task Force are responsible for numerous raids on patients. And, in the courts she has used the most punitive and...

San Diego District Attorney Engaged in an Ongoing Asset Forfeiture Fight Over Family’s Savings

San Diego District Attorney Engaged in an Ongoing Asset Forfeiture Fight Over Family’s Savings

Nov 21, 2016

By Terrie Best – San Diego Americans for Safe Access San Diego, CA – The James Slatic family sat in San Diego Civil court Monday, November 15th, along with an impressive group of supporters, to listen to testimony on just why The San Diego District Attorney confiscated each of the family of four’s checking and savings accounts and has refused to give...

Citizen Found Not Guilty within Ten Minutes in June, District Attorney Keeps the Cash

Citizen Found Not Guilty within Ten Minutes in June, District Attorney Keeps the Cash

Oct 17, 2016

October 17, 2016  San Diego, CA – When medical marijuana patient Shaun Smith won his case with a ten minute not guilty verdict in June, he could not have known the District Attorney had already spent the cash they took from his medical cannabis collective and that the Sheriff’s department would take such a long time to return the motorcycle...

El Cajon Police Return Medical Cannabis – Another Success for the Patient Community

El Cajon Police Return Medical Cannabis – Another Success for the Patient Community

Oct 15, 2016

October 10, 2016 San Diego, CA With the stroke of a judge’s pen, Justice has prevailed. Pursuant to Court order, members of San Diego Alternative Care, a lawfully formed medical cannabis Cooperative, retrieved their property last week from the El Cajon Police Department, including 30 pounds of medical cannabis flower, 5 pounds of concentrates, and hundreds...