CALIFORNIA

Contents

Email Lists
Local Groups & Contacts

ASA Chapters
ASA Affiliates
ASA Contacts
Allied Organizations

California Campaigns & Services
Legal Rights
Other Resources

Local Email Lists

Sign up for ASA email alerts, including local lists, here.

Local Groups

ASA Chapters

Fresno

Fresno ASA meets second Mon / month, 6 pm, at Full Circle Brewing Company, 620 "F" Street, Fresno. 

Contact Diana, fresnocagal@sbcglobal.net

Humboldt County

Humboldt County ASA meets third Thur / month, 6 pm, at the Bayview Courtyard Senior Housing Complex community recreation room, 550 Union Street, Arcata.

Contact asa-humboldt@sbcglobal.net or (707) 407 8522.

Los Angeles

Los Angeles ASA meets third Sat / month, 1 pm, at Patient ID Center, 470 S. San Vicente Blvd., Los Angeles (at Drexel, between Wilshire & 3rd St.). 

Contact Don@AmericansforSafeAccess.org

Orange County

Cha Hanna, channa.ocasa@yahoo.com

San Diego County

San Diego ASA meets second Tues / month, 7 pm, 6070 Mt. Alifan, Suite 202, San Diego. 

Contact 4cccp@cox.net.
http://safeaccesssd.org.

San Diego North County

San Diego North County ASA meets first Fri / month, 7 pm, at Academy Of World Martial Arts, 1050 S. Sante Fe Ave., Vista.

Contact movementinaction@gmail.com or (760) 500-8868.

San Francisco

San Francisco ASA meets second & fourth Tues / month, 7:30 pm, Bowers Pizza, 371 11th St, San Francisco. 

Contact dcgoldman@yahoo.com.

Sonoma County

Sonoma ASA meets first Thurs / month, 5 pm, at Dept of Public Health, South City View Room, 625 Fifth Street (Between Mendocino Ave & Humboldt St.), Santa Rosa.  Note that the DPH closes at 5 pm; please knock loudly or enter glass door directly into classroom. 

Contact sarah@safeaccessnow.org or 510-251-1856 x322

ASA Affiliates

Merced County

Merced County Patients Coalition
Shirley
shirley@compassionatecoalition.org
(209) 261-5758

Meetings on the 1st Saturday of every month
9:00 a.m.
1009 Bingham Drive, Modesto 

Sacramento County

Crusaders for Patients Rights meets first and third Tues / month, 7 pm, at Crusaders Hall, 320 Harris Avenue, Suite H, Sacramento.

Contact Lanette, 916-924-3455 or cpr4mercy@yahoo.com.

Solano County

Solano Patients Group
Linda
Linda4SPG@compassionatecoalition.org
(707) 720-7593

Meetings on the 2nd Saturday of each month
3:00 p.m.
2145 Collinsville Road in Birds Landing, CA 94512

ASA Contacts

Amador County

Allan
onebigcrazyfamily@sbcglobal.net
(209) 274-6747

Lassen County

Tim
ziggy420me@yahoo.com
(530) 355-8347

San Jose

Dennis
dmumphress@hotmail.com
or Marnie
mars_2112@juno.com

Yuba & Sutter Counties

Juston
suttercarecollective@yahoo.com
(530) 671-0459

Allied Organizations

Act-Up East Bay

Contact: John Iverson, johnnyi@surfree.com

California NORML

California NORML is a non-profit, membership organization dedicated to reforming California's marijuana laws. We publish a newsletter, lobby lawmakers, sponsor events, offer legal, educational, and consumer health advice, and sponsor scientific research. We maintain a separate membership and financial base from national NORML.

Contact:http://www.canorml.org
2215-R Market St. #278
San Francisco CA 94114
(415) 563-5858

Chico Cannabis Coalition

Contact: gregbard@ecst.csuchico.edu
230-C Walnut St #127
Chico, CA 95928

The Compassionate Coalition

The Compassionate Coalition is a nonprofit grassroots organization that helps build and support local chapters nation-wide, linking them with other medical marijuana reform organizations.

Contact: Nathan Sands
nathan@compassionatecoalition.org
916-709-2483

Drug Policy Alliance (SF)

Drug Policy Alliance is the nation's leading organization working to end the war on drugs and promote new drug policies based on common sense, science, public health and human rights.

2233 Lombard St
San Francisco, CA 94123
(415) 921-4987 ph
(415) 921-1912 fx
www.drugpolicy.org

DrugSense

Contact: Mark Greer
greer@drugsense.org
(800) 266-5759
14252 Culver Drive #328
Irvine, CA 92604

Human Rights and the Drug War

HRDW is a multi-media project that combines the stories and photos of Drug War POWs with facts and figures about the US Drug War, to confront the conscience of the American people and encourage individuals to take action for social justice.

Contact: PO Box 1716
El Cerrito, California 94530
www.hr95.org

Marijuana Anti-Prohibition Project

The Marijuana Anti-Prohibition Project is an Inland Empire based medical marijuana patient support group and law reform organization.  Three meetings are held each month - one in the Palm Springs/Coachella Valley, one in the High Desert near Landers and one in the city of Riverside serving the western part of the Inland Empire.

 MAPP is a local organization working with local elected officials to enforce state law and to aid patients in obtaining their medicine. The group also produces a weekly one hour interactive talk radio show broadcast every Monday at 6 p.m. on radio station KCAA 1050 AM and simulcast on the Internet at www.kcaaradio.com.

MAPP may be contacted by calling 760-799-2055 and on the web at www.marijuananews.org. The mailing address is PO BOx 739, Palm Springs CA 92264.

Marin Alliance for Medical Marijuana

Our mission has been to protect patients from abuse by law enforcement and a jail system that continues to incarcerate the sick for medical marijuana, despite the successful passage of Proposition 215.

Contact:Rev. Lynnette Shaw
info@cbcmarin.com
415-456-4313
www.cbcmarin.com

Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana

Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana (WAMM) is an organization seeking to educate the general public regarding the medical usefulness of Marijuana, and to insure that seriously ill patients have access to a safe, natural supply of Marijuana to treat their individual medical conditions as prescribed or recommended by their physician, and to document the medical efficacy of Marijuana through scientific observations.

Contact: info@wamm.org
309 Cedar ST #39
Santa Cruz, California 95060
www.wamm.org

California Campaigns & Services

Protect Dispensing Collectives and Cooperatives

Download useful info to educate your city council and board of supervisors on the importance of dispensing collectives and cooperatives to safe access to medical marijuana.

California ID Card Campaign

Senate Bill 420 established a statewide medical marijuana ID card program for the state Department of Health Services and all of the County Departments of Public Health to administer. The legislation mandated that the state implement the program, but it is designed to be voluntary for patients and caregivers. ASA is working to establish an ID card program that both protects patients and is implemented fairly and expeditiously.

CHP Lawsuit Campaign

The CHP is by far the worst violator of the Compassionate Use Act and SB 420 with its policy of mandatory confiscation of medicine. With our lawsuit, ASA changed that policy to one that discourages CHP officers from confiscating medicine from patients and caregivers, and provides officers with instructions on how to verify valid medical marijuana documentation.

Return of Property Campaign

A three-month study by ASA found local and state law enforcement is routinely seizing the marijuana to which California patients are legally entitled - and not giving it back. In reponse, ASA organized a mass court action by patients demanding their medicine back in 36 counties on Tuesday, August 17, 2004 and is currently helping dozens of patients fight to recover their confiscated property.

Peer Counseling and Dispensary Services

ASA's Peer Counseling Program is an education, outreach and training program specifically for medical cannabis patients and their caregivers.

Legal Support

One of ASA's most important and far-reaching services is our Legal Support program.

Legal Rights

ASA's Guide to Becoming a Patient in California

ASA's Legal Manual

Other Resources

CA NORML's list of Co-ops, dispensaries, and support groups

CA NORML's list of doctors familiar with medical marijuana