Not just limited to one
club. Compassion club is a general
term used all over
North America that describes a club which tries to ease the
pain of
terminally ill patients through the use of
marijuana. There are many compassion clubs all over the
United States and
Canada. The clubs usually
grow their own marijuana plants and then
harvest them to be sold at low prices to people who have a
doctor's letter of recomendation for the use of
medical marijuana.
The police often do intervene and bust the clubs regularly where medical marijuana is not legal. The most famous one is located in California, in the Bay Area. It was founded in 1996 when California voters passed an initiative to legalize medical marijuana. Recently, however, the federal government has been hassling the club under the claim that they can override the state laws regarding medical marijuana because it is still illegal under federal law.