Oct 18, 2013

by Terrie Best – Court Support Coordinator for San Diego Americans for Safe Access San Diego CA – Just days after legal cannabis patient RonnieChang’s federal incarceration came to an end freeing him to return to his elderly mother, Crispin Price sits in court with his attorney, federal defender, Bridget Kennedy and hopes he will not have to go to...

Oct 14, 2013

  By Terrie Best – San Diego Americans for Safe Access Court Support Coordinator San Diego CA – Medical cannabis patient and collective operator, Ronnie Chang’s ordeal with the federal government will come to an end on Tuesday, October 15, 2013, after spending over a year behind bars in federal custody awaiting a trial that was to have started...

Oct 11, 2013

Is there such a thing as triple jeopardy? Tragically, there is in San Diego under District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis’ reign. This month, the third trial of Jovan Jackson will begin in San Diego Superior Court. Jovan Jackson, a legitimate medical cannabis patient and Navy veteran was a directing member of Answerdam, a medical marijuana collective located in...

Oct 7, 2013

By Terrie Best – Court Support Coordinator for The San Diego Chapter of Americans for Safe Access San Diego – Medical marijuana patient and Navy veteran Jovan Jackson, along with his attorney, Lance Rogers assisted by Logan Fairfax and Rezwan Khan were in court Thursday and Friday, October 3rd and 4th 2013, to hammer out jury instructions and motions in...

Jul 30, 2013

By Terrie Best, San Diego Americans for Safe Access Court Support Coordinator July 30, 2013 San Diego, CA – In a weird and wholly inappropriate display of rage today in the downtown courthouse, Judge Peter Gallagher ranted at defendant Victor Marion for choosing to have medical cannabis supporters in the courtroom for his sentencing, leaving the defendant in...

Jul 23, 2013

By Terrie Best – San Diego Americans for Safe Access Court Support Coordinator July 23, 2013 San Diego, CA – Last week, in San Diego Superior Court, Attorneys Lance Rogers and Logan Fairfax argued their clients, – medical cannabis patients and seriously ill Dennis and Deborah Littles’ – right to privacy was violated when Sheriffs flew over...

Join patients, advocates, scientists, and concerned citizens Tuesday, July 9th from 7pm – 9pm at Giovanni’s Restaurant located at 9353 Clairemont Mesa Blvd. San Diego, CA 92123 for the July San Diego Chapter of Americans for Safe Access monthly meeting. At Tuesday’s meeting we will discuss federal legislation as well as updates regarding...

Jun 12, 2013

Day 1 (pre-trial motions)   June 12, 2013   By Terrie Best, San Diego Americans for Safe Access Court Support Coordinator   San Diego, CA – After a day and a half of delays finding a courtroom to try the Tim O’Shea case – in an overbooked courthouse that has no business wasting rooms on legitimate medical cannabis patients...

May 23, 2013

By Terrie Best – San Diego Americans for Safe Access Court Support Coordinator San Diego, CA  – San Diego’s medical cannabis community saw history in the making when the city’s Mayor, Bob Filner, showed up to a federal hearing, sat with his arm around the defendant’s elderly mother and held a press conference discussing jury nullification –...

May 18, 2013

Who:         Federal defendant Ronnie Chang and his atty Michael J. McCabe Esq. What:        Gag Order Hearing in Federal Medical Marijuana Case        Press Conference with Mayor Bob Filner When:       2:00PM – Monday, May 20, 2013 Mayor’s Press Conference to Follow Where:      Dept. 5, on the 3rd Flr. of the San Diego...

May 16, 2013

By Terrie Best – San Diego Americans for Safe Access Court Support Coordinator San Diego, CA – Robert “O.J.” Hudson is a forty-something medical cannabis patient who suffers from a host of sleep disorders leaving him debilitated and looking for non-chemical answers to his conditions.   Mr. Hudson has found the limited side-effects of cannabis...

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...

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,...

Jan 17, 2013

By Terrie Best, San Diego ASA Court Support Coordinator San Diego – City Attorney Jan Goldsmith dashed off a letter to litigants in medical marijuana dispensary cases indicating he is not answerable to his client the Mayor and manufacturing mistruths, in what appears an attempt to make the procedure the punishment in twelve medical marijuana dispensary zoning...

By: Eugene Davidovich Last night for the first time in our chapter and city’s history, a sitting mayor attended the monthly chapter meeting. Former Congressman and newly elected Mayor Bob Filner arrived at the La Jolla Brew House around 7:30pm and walked into a packed meeting room where over 100 of you greeted him with cheer and applause. In his initial...