Patients Out of Time
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Patients Out of Time, or POT, is a patient advocacy organization dedicated to educating public health professionals and the public about medical marijuana. Incorporated in 1995, the group is led by medical and nursing professionals and the five remaining participants in the federal government's Investigational New Drug
Investigational New Drug
The United States Food and Drug Administration's Investigational New Drug program is the means by which a pharmaceutical company obtains permission to ship an experimental drug across state lines before a marketing application for the drug has been approved...

 program for cannabis
Cannabis
Cannabis is a genus of flowering plants that includes three putative species, Cannabis sativa, Cannabis indica, and Cannabis ruderalis. These three taxa are indigenous to Central Asia, and South Asia. Cannabis has long been used for fibre , for seed and seed oils, for medicinal purposes, and as a...

. POT is a member organization of the Coalition for Rescheduling Cannabis
Coalition for Rescheduling Cannabis
The Coalition for Rescheduling Cannabis is a U.S. organization founded circa 2002 to support removal of marijuana from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. The group was organized immediately after the U.S...

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POT is the co-sponsor of a continuing series of medicinal cannabis conferences that are accredited for continuing education. See www.medicalcannabis.com for information about The Fifth National Clinical Conference on Cannabis Therapeutics to be held on the Monterey peninsula of California on April 4&5, 2008. The conference is co-sponsored by the California Nurses Association and the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine.

POT is a 501c3 educational charity and a corporation of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Board of Directors

  • Mary Lynn Mathre, President
  • Al Byrne, Secretary-Treasurer
  • Michael Aldrich, Director
  • Irvin Rosenfeld, Director

Founding Directors

  • Melanie Dreher, RN, PhD, FAAN
  • Barbara Douglass
  • Neil Jacobs
  • George McMahon (author)
  • Corrine Millet
  • Mae Nutt
  • Denis Petro, MD

Board of Advisors

  • Michelle Aldrich
  • David Bearman, MD
  • Richard Bonnie, JD
  • Sandee Burbank
  • Joshua Braun
  • Patrick Fourmy
  • Ed Glick
    Ed Glick
    Edward Isadore Glick was a professional American football back in the National Football League. He played one season for the Green Bay Packers . He played at the collegiate level at Lawrence University and Marquette University.-References:...

    , RN
  • Larry Hirsch, JD
  • Michael Krawitz
  • Bryan Krumm, RN
  • Joanna McKee
  • Jim Miller
    Jim Miller
    Jim Miller may refer to:* Jim Miller , college football coach* Jim Miller , University of Richmond athletic director* Jim Miller , former Carlton and Dandenong full-forward...

  • Alice O'Leary
  • Carl Olsen
  • John Rowlingson, MD
  • Ethan Russo, MD
  • Tom Saint, RN, PA-C, Lcdr., CG, ret.
  • Juan Sanchez-Ramos, MD, PhD
  • Ralph A. Smith, Esq.
  • Gary Storck
  • Mark Ware, MD, MSc, MRCP
  • Lennice Werth
  • Don Wirtshafter, Esq.
  • Ken Wolski, RN, MPA
  • Kevin Zeese
    Kevin Zeese
    Kevin Zeese is an American political activist who has been a leader in the drug policy reform and peace movements and in efforts to ensure a voter verified paper audit trail. He was on the ballot as the nominee of the Maryland Green Party for a U.S. Senate seat during the 2006 election, receiving...

    , Esq.

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