How many states recognize marijuanas medical value?
For a complete list of states recognizing marijuana’s medical value please see the Alliance Legislative Tally list. [Back to the Top] What are the Cannabis Buyer’s Clubs I’ve been hearing about? Cannabis Buyer’s Clubs (CBC) provide marijuana to individuals with a medical need for the drug. They are illegal in most states. Proposition 215 — passed in California — protects the CBCs in that state. CBCs are not new. In the past twenty years there have been numerous instances of individuals banding together to form medical marijuana “clubs” in order to ensure a continuing supply of the drug. What is new about the current CBCs is their brash nature. Many of these cannabis buyer’s clubs are offshoots of the AIDS Buyer’s Clubs started by ACT-UP in the 1980s to help AIDS patients obtain expensive and/or not yet approved medications. Ironically the federal government is indirectly responsible for the current CBCs. Following the closure of the Compassionate IND program in 1991, many individuals
