San Diego Americans for Safe Access |
Dexter Padilla, left, shown with his wife Mariesol, saw the case against him dismissed after a mistrial on Thursday |
San Diego Americans for Safe Access |
Dexter Padilla, left, shown with his wife Mariesol, saw the case against him dismissed after a mistrial on Thursday |
San Diego Americans for Safe Access |
A press conference on behalf of Navy veteran and medical marijuana patient/provider Dexter Padilla has been set for Tuesday, May 22, at 12:30 p.m., in front of the Hall of Justice at 330 West Broadway, San Diego, California. The press conference was arranged by the San Diego Chapter of Americans for Safe Access.
FederalJack.com |
NBC San Diego |
Medical marijuana patient advocates protest outside Golden West Collective on Thursday as it is raided by DEA agents and San Diego Police. |
Federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents raided three medical marijuana dispensaries in San Diego at exactly 4:20 p.m. on Thursday, acting on a “landlord law” that was put into action after a crackdown announced by the U.S. Attorney’s office last October.
Nug Magazine |
Jovan Jackson operated his storefront collective for years without incident until he was raided by law enforcement in 2008 |
Medical marijuana patient advocacy group Americans for Safe Access (ASA) on Tuesday appealed the September 2010 conviction of San Diego dispensary operator Jovan Jackson in a case that has received widespread attention.
Photo: Pacific San Diego |
Medical marijuana advocacy group Americans for Safe Access (ASA) on Thursday threatened to file suit against the City of San Diego if it doesn’t amend a recent ordinance that patient advocates are calling a de facto ban on local cannabis distribution facilities.
Photo: K.C. Alfred/Sign On San Diego |
The court deprived Jovan Jackson of the medical marijuana defense that was used to gain an acquittal in his first trial |
Medical marijuana patient advocates on Wednesday will argue for a new trial in the case of dispensary owner Jovan Jackson, who was convicted on September 28 after he was tried for the second time in less than a year on the same charges of marijuana possession and sales.
Graphic: Women’s Marijuana Movement |
The Women’s Marijuana Movement on Tuesday, October 5, will coordinate news conferences throughout California and across the nation in support of Proposition 19, the California ballot initiative to control and tax marijuana similarly to alcohol, and to highlight the need for marijuana law reform nationwide.
Photo: K.C. Alfred/Sign On San Diego |
Jovan Jackson, manager of a now-defunct medical marijuana dispensary in Kearny Mesa, was accused of illegally selling cannabis. |
San Diego medical marijuana dispensary operator Jovan Jackson was convicted by a jury Tuesday on all three counts of possession and sales of cannabis with which he was charged. However, the conviction came after San Diego Superior Court Judge Howard H. Shore refused to allow Jackson a medical marijuana defense at trial.
Photo: ASA San Diego |
The jury is deliberating in the second trial of San Diego medical marijuana provider Jovan Jackson. |
A Superior Court jury has heard the evidence in the trial of Jovan Jackson, accused of illegally selling marijuana at a now-defunct medical cannabis dispensary in Kearny Mesa, California, and is expected to begin its first full day of deliberations Tuesday.