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If WAMM, the first medical marijuana club in the country to be granted
nonprofit status, will not convince skeptics that cannabis may have a
healthy purpose, nothing will. The collective, which grows its own marijuana
and distributes it free to its members each week, is no pot party. About 85
percent of its members are terminally ill. Many of those who line up at the
club's small, borrowed storefront every Tuesday evening had not used the
drug before they developed life-threatening illnesses like cancer and AIDS.
Others hadn't tried it before exhausting a medicine chest's worth of
pharmaceuticals for chronic, debilitating ailments like postpolio syndrome
or epilepsy. Relatively few have used marijuana the way Bill Clinton did in
college, for fun.