Follow this link to Project 50’s Google Drive folder on ACT, the Alliance for Cannabis Therapeutics.
ACT was the first non-profit association dedicated to medical cannabis and patients. It was founded in 1981 and during its first years it focused on federal legislation (H.R. 4498) and the hearings before DEA Judge Francis Young on rescheduling marijuana. In the 1990s, ACT created numerous small groups, most notably the Marijuana AIDS Research Service (MARS). The patient application packet prepared by MARS for AIDS patients revolutionized the Compassionate IND application process and inundated federal agencies with requests for access to legal marijuana for medical purposes. Panicked by the demand for medical marijuana, especially by AIDS patients, the federal government closed the Compassionate IND program, thereby shutting the door on any legal means to cannabis. Public outcry stunned the federal government but it was too late to go back. Before long, Prop 215 was passed and citizens took matters into their own hands.

This link takes you to the Project 50 Google Drive’s folder on medical cannabis legal cases. In addition to the 1976 case that started it all, U.S. v Randall, Description text goes here

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A variety of medical cannabis publications, from newsletters to Congressional hearings.

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News articles reveal not only the news but society’s attitudes. This directory has hundreds of articles dating back to 1976 and moving through the decades to 1996.

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Lots of fun here. Videos from every period of the early medical cannabis movement days. You can watch Robert Randall on a 1977 Good Morning America and also his final public speech at the first Patients Out of Time conference in April 2000.