The Road to 30, EP1 “How It All Began”
This first episode tells the story of the beginning of the patient led movement to provide access to medical cannabis. Alice O’Leary Randall relays the story of her husband, the late Robert Randall, who was busted for growing cannabis, won in court with the medical necessity defense and gained access to government grown cannabis. Alice and Robert then founded the Alliance for Cannabis Therapeutics (ACT) which set out to help others gain access to cannabis through the Compassionate Investigational New Drug (IND) Program. In addition Irvin Rosenfeld tells his story as the 2nd patient to receive federally grown cannabis, along with Juan (Zeno) Sanchez-Ramos, a noted movement disorder neurologist who served as Irv’s IND protocol physician for a period of time. The closing of the IND access to cannabis and their stories set the stage for the creation of Patients Out of Time.
