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Alice O'Leary Randall co-founded the medical marijuana movement in 1976 with her late husband, Robert C. Randall. Nearly 50 years later, Alice's blog reflects on the past, present, and future of medical cannabis.
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Message in a Bottle: The Kenny and Barbra Jenks Story (opens the original)
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About this SeriesWelcome back to Medical Marijuana at 50 (MMA50), the year-long commemorative look at the early history of the medical marijuana movement. Starting with Episode 7, MMA50 essays include excerpts from Marijuana Rx: The Patients’ Fight for Medicinal Pot by Robert C. Randall and Alice M. O’Leary published in 1998 with a digital update in 2024. This provides a nearly contemporaneous look at the medical marijuana movement from the eyes of Robert Randall, America’s first legal medical m
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Welcome back to Medical Marijuana at 50 (MMA50). After a short summer break, MMA50 has returned to its commemorative review of the early history of the medical marijuana movement in this semi-centennial year of its founding. In This SeriesEpisode 6 - Convergence: Medical Marijuana Comes to Washington,Part 3, The Trial of Marijuana Episode 6 - Convergence: Medical Marijuana Comes to Washington, Part 2: THC Opens the DoorEpisode 6 - Convergence: Medical Marijuana Comes to Washington, <a hr
From Cancer to AIDS: The Next Chapter in Medical Marijuana at 50 (opens the original)
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After a brief summer holiday, Medical Marijuana at 50 (MMA50) returns on August 15th. This year-long series traces the early history of the medical marijuana movement through the eyes of someone who was there from the beginning.If you’re just discovering the series—or want to catch up—you can find every episode here: https://bit.ly/MMA50_NavigationIn August, we will pick up the story in the late 1980s. In 1989, AIDS was a growing epidemic in the U.S. At the Alliance for Cannabis Therapeutics (AC
History of Marijuana Rescheduling (opens the original)
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Rescheduling marijuana is back in the news.Again.And again.And again.Depending on who you ask, marijuana was rescheduled in 2024, 2025, or 2026. The details vary, the headlines blur together, and many people understandably aren’t sure what’s actually happening.But here’s something many people may not realize.On September 6, 1988, the chief administrative law judge for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) ruled that marijuana should be removed from Schedule I and transferred to Schedule II.N
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