Last updated on: 9/24/2019 | Author: ProCon.org

1981 – Legal Medical Marijuana Patients Form Organization to Help Others Obtain Access

“In 1981, Bob [Randall, the first legal medical marijuana patient under the IND program] and Alice [O’Leary, his wife] formed an organization called the Alliance for Cannabis Therapeutics or ACT, of which I was a charter member. Our goal was to help other patients and their doctors file Compassionate Care Protocols, and to guide them through the government maze.”