Compassion Clubs

Compassion Clubs are meant to be filled with people who are compassionate. People who want to help people get their cards, help them to set up their own grow room or just make a few new friends. Lo and behold less than three months into the new law the money hungry idiots are already out in full force trying to ruin it for the rest of us. I have on my sidebar a link to the MMMA site. This is where I see these people at work for their own benefit. Coming out of the gate and being one of the first members I thought this site was the bomb. It was going to be THE place to get your information. Now I am not so sure I would recommend the site. The argument starts at whether being a caregiver will provide enough money to support yourself. This question has no answer because not everyone needs the same amount of money to live per year, and the price for caregiver services is negotiable between the caregiver and patient. Now remember, you may enlist a caregiver to grow your plants for you, and you are paying that caregiver for the service of growing your plants. You are not paying for the product that the plant produces. That being said, there are people on the site who just won't be mindful of the law and they put up posts offering 1/4 oz for $$ , 1/2 oz for $$ and so on. This is illegal. These are the same people who have no intentions of getting their caregiver cards and acquiring patients legally....They just want to sell some pot man. There was one guy on there today doing just that. He was like "Man, I got the best shit for cheap prices!" He was accusing others of ripping people off by charging four times what he was going to charge. I was actually the first to call him out on his post and play stupid by asking him if he really meant to present it that way. The next poster told him outright he was doing it illegally. Then there was a post in support of this guy by J. J told him it was a great idea to sell his stuff this way. Told him to ignore the haters... Gave the guy his name and email address right in the post and told him he would love to work with him. As the responses to the post grew and turned into a second post it came out that the original poster was a twenty three year old drug dealer who had no knowledge or intentions of helping anyone but himself. He ended up attacking another female member in his post and called her some horrible names and made crude sexual references to her body. The posts were pulled and the posters last words were pretty much FU to anyone who didn't agree with his ways. This idiot J is the reason I am writing this post. First of all think about it. He had no reservations about giving this guy his personal contact information in a public forum. He saw someone else interested in making money and didn't want to miss out. I was the secretary for the local compassion club with two other people. J pushed his way in there and took over the last meeting using it for his own agenda. He spouted of some crap about how if we would all join his co-op and do it his way then no one would ever have to run out of meds or pay high street prices. I sat at my table and was so pissed because this is not what I was there to promote. It was not legal and it was not for anyones benefit but his own. After the meeting I was invited to his house. He was relentless as he paced in his own living room spouting profit numbers, dates and whatever else he could come up with to get me to part with my money. He even took me downstairs to see his grow room. It was nice. Back upstairs he watched as I put out some money for meds from the other leader of our club, he then tried to sell me some seeds. I explained that I was not going to plant anything until I was legal so I really didn't need them, but that didn't stop him from trying again, and again...And again. I finally understood a few minutes later as his wife poked her head in the room and asked him if they were going to visit his dad later in the day. Without missing a beat he replied that they could, but he would have to come and get them all because he didn't have any gas money! Wow. guess selling me those seeds for cheap was his last chance for cash. I found out a little while later that he told another person his wife had no knowledge of his grow room. The same grow room I stood next to her in a week prior. I also found out the reason he is pushing so heavily to get patients... He didn't have any at the time I was there, but he had a grow room getting ready to harvest. Oops. No patients and lots of product = pure profit if he can fast talk people into buying his story. Hence he is using the website and the compassion club as his sales floor. Long story short. The two clubs have split and J and G have gone their own way, and S and I have gone another. It looks like as time goes on J is not going to give up. He continues to give compassion clubs a bad name by acting greedy on the website and not caring about what is legal. Sadly he is hardly the only person out there doing this just for profit. I don't think you can make a living being a caregiver. It would take a large scale operation outside of the home with many more plants than one person could handle. It would also take out all of the compassion, and that is what I love most about this law. Helping people. I made a promise to one person just last Saturday at our compassion club meeting. He is elderly and on a fixed income but he needs meds. I am going to help find him a caregiver that really cares about him. All I want is to see him smile and be free from the pain. I would love to make lots of money. Who wouldn't? But what would make me truly happy is to have the assurance I will never ever have to go without meds again for the rest of my life. To me, that is winning the lottery.