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Patients Out of Time
Cannabis as medicine
Patients Out of Time is a patient advocacy organization who support the rights of patients to have a legal and safe access to the therapeutic use of cannabis. Their mission is the education of health care professionals and the public about the therapeutic use of cannabis.
Patients Out of Time lobbies and educates all disciplines of health care professionals, their organizations, and the public at large about medical cannabis (marijuana).
Prior to the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, marijuana was widely used by medical doctors in the United States for a variety of physical and emotional ailments. The U.S. government began a litany of “reefer madness” propaganda and police actions that are with us today. Coupled with the bureaucratic demands of the tax act, the practice of physicians prescribing cannabis for therapeutic purposes in such an environment became subject to great scrutiny and therefore unwise. Cannabis’ therapeutic value was no longer taught in medical schools; it vanished from the pharmacopoeia of the U.S.; it became outlawed.
Patients Out of Time focuses on re-instituting cannabis as a legitimate medicine for use within the United States. Cannabis, under modern research protocol has been found to be effective in reducing intraocular pressure in glaucoma, reducing nausea and vomiting associated with chemotherapy, stimulating the appetite for persons living with AIDS and suffering from wasting syndrome, controlling spasticity associated with spinal cord injury and multiple sclerosis, reduction in the intensity of chronic pain, and controlling seizures associated with seizure disorders.
The organization is seeking members of professional health care organizations or other social organizations who are willing to take the lead in urging their organization to formally support patient access to therapeutic cannabis. They assist in providing educational tools and/or speakers in such efforts. All educating, lobbying, communication or any other endeavor is limited to the sole subject Marijuana as Medicine.
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