Once called “First Lady of the medical marijuana movement,” Alice O’Leary-Randall communicates her singular perspective on the emotional and long-running movement to legalize marijuana as medicine. She was literally there at the start. For two decades, she and her husband, Robert C. Randall, were advocates for medical access to marijuana. Robert, who had advanced glaucoma at a young age, discovered that he actually saw better after smoking pot. In 1976 he became the first U.S. citizen to have marijuana prescribed for a medical condition. Their personal battle is chronicled in their memoir, the highly respected Marijuana RX: The Patients’ Fight for Medicinal Pot. In the late 1970s Alice and Robert helped enact 35 state laws that recognized marijuana’s medical value and attempted to establish state-sponsored research programs (the federal government thwarted these efforts).
Takeaways:
A look inside the beginning of the medical marijuana movement
Alice’s experiences dealing with a government bureaucracy that fought her at every turn.
How one man changed the course of medicine.
How it’s never too late to do what you dream
Links/Info:
www.aliceolearyrandall.com
aliceolearyrandall@gmail.com
