Whatever the legal position, some people have taken matters into their own
hands and set up cannabis buyers’ clubs for people who cannot relieve their
symptoms with other treatments. Some of them have Web sites, such as Oakland
(http://www.rxcbc.org/) and Vancouver Island
(http://www.islandnet.com/~acidhead/cbc.html).
The most famous club of all, however, is San
Francisco. It doesn’t have its own page, but you can get an idea of the
controversy it created from the article at
http://www.alpworld.com/HEALTH/Prop_215/buyersclub.html.
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