How many more years need to pass and how many more lives need to be destroyed until there is change in San Diego?

There are many patients and collectives in San Diego who have gone above and beyond what is required in order to comply and stay within the law. Every attempt made to date by collectives and coops to follow the law in San Diego has resulted in prosecutions or collectives having to operate so deeply underground and under such intense daily fear and pressure, that the potential public benefit they could be bringing to the community and to patients is stifled by this environment of fear.

We as a community need to educate the public on the benefits of medical cannabis and the laws that are already in place, as well as educate each other on the intent of our District Attorney. San Diego is not a safe place for collectives, here patients are rounded up in drug sting operations, prosecuted, and forced into taking plea bargains. The few that put up a fight are thrown in jail or worse as in Steve McWilliams' case, are forced to take their own life.

It has been over a decade since the since the Compassionate Use Act. Several years since SB420, and almost a year since the California Attorney General's guidelines. Still in San Diego according to the DA there is no such thing as a legal collective or cooperative, and according to Deputy District Attorney Chris Lindbergh anyone who engages in an attempt to cultivate and distribute collectively is obviously in it for profit, "why else would they get in to this activity".

How many more years need to pass and how many more lives need to be destroyed until there is change in San Diego?

Please join me in the struggle for patients' rights to collectively cultivate and distribute medication by supporting me in court on June 8th. To learn more about my case please visit http://www.eugenedavidovich.com