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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

Oceanside City Attorney Loses Temporary Restraining Order; North County Collective Allowed to Stay Open

Oceanside City Attorney Loses Temporary Restraining Order; North County Collective Allowed to Stay Open

Jul 27, 2011

By: Eugene Davidovich, San Diego Americans for Safe Access, Posted July 27, 2011, 11:29am VISTA, CA – On Wednesday, July 27, 2011 in a courtroom filled with supporters of safe access, Judge Maas, denied the City of Oceanside’s attempt to obtain a temporary restraining order to shut down North County Collective (NCC), a legal medical marijuana dispensary...

BREAKING NEWS: San Diego City Council Votes to Repeal Medicinal Marijuana Ordinances

BREAKING NEWS: San Diego City Council Votes to Repeal Medicinal Marijuana Ordinances SAN DIEGO – After listening to almost two hours of public commentary, both in favor and against repealing the ordinances that attempted to regulate medicinal marijuana co-ops, the city council reluctantly voted 6 to 2 in favor of repeal. The two repealed ordinances would have...

Council repeals San Diego medical marijuana rules

Medical marijuana shops in legal limbo after ordinance repealed By Jen Lebron Kuhney, published on signonsandiego.com updated 7:35 p.m., July 25, 2011 Medical marijuana dispensaries within San Diego city limits are once again in legal limbo after the City Council voted Monday to repeal regulations that created — ever so briefly — a path to legitimacy for...

Patient Advocates Appeal Federal Decision to Deny Medical Marijuana to Millions of Americans

Notice of appeal filed in D.C. Circuit challenges recent denial to reschedule marijuana for medical use Washington, DC — The country’s leading medical marijuana advocacy group, Americans for Safe Access (ASA), with the Coalition for Rescheduling Cannabis (CRC), today appealed a recent decision by the federal government to keep marijuana classified as...