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Patients Out Of Time  - Board of Directors Biography

mathre06Name: Mary Lynn Mathre, RN, MSN, CARN
Title: President
Organization: Patients Out of Time
Address: 1472 Fish Pond Rd.
City state zip: Howardsville, VA 24562
Contact: Phone: (434) 263-4484 Fax: (434) 263-6753
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Expertise: Marijuana, Therapeutic Cannabis, Harm Reduction, Addictions Nursing

Publications:
(2002). “Cannabis and Harm Reduction: A Nursing Perspective.” The Journal of Cannabis Therapeutics. 2(3/4).
(2002). Women and Cannabis: Medicine, Science and Sociology. NY, the Haworth Press. Co-editor with Ethan Russo and Melanie Dreher.
(January 2002). Chronic Cannabis use in the Compassionate Investigational New Drug program:
an examination of benefits and adverse effects of legal clinical Cannabis.
Journal of Cannabis Therapeutics. 2(1).
(2001–2003). Cannabis: the whole story (a series of articles).  The Drug and Alcohol Professional (UK). 1(1)-3(3).
(2001, April). Therapeutic Cannabis: a patient advocacy issue. American Journal of Nursing. 101(4).
(1997). (Ed) Cannabis in Medical Practice: A Legal, Historical and Pharmacological Overview of the Therapeutic Use of Marijuana. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company Publishers, Inc.
(1992). Marijuana as Medicine (video – co-producer). Howardsville, VA:
International Cannabis Alliance of Researchers and Educators.

Biography:

Mary Lynn (“ML”) Mathre received her BSN from the College of St. Teresa in Winona,MN and began her nursing career in the US Navy Nurse Corps serving at Portsmouth Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, VA and at the Naval Hospital in Roosevelt Roads, PR.  After leaving military service she continued to work in acute care settings as a medical-surgical nurse.  In 1985 she earned her MSN at Case Western Reserve University and began teaching at the University of Virginia School of Nursing, but in 1987, Ms Mathre changed her specialty to addictions nursing and returned to clinical practice.  Ms. Mathre has served as the charge nurse of an inpatient addictions treatment program and later as the addictions consultant for the University of Virginia Health System.  She then worked as the Executive Director of a private opioid treatment center and now works independently as an addictions consultant.  She was the first nurse in Virginia to become certified as an addictions registered nurse and was the co-founder and first president of the Virginia Nurses Society on Addictions. Ms. Mathre also served on the Board of Directors and as Secretary for the National Nurses Society on Addictions (now the International Nurses Society on Addictions). She is on the editorial board of the Journal of Addictions Nursing and was a member of the
International Advisory Board for The Drug and Alcohol Professional from 2001-2007.

Ms. Mathre’s focus on medicinal cannabis began in 1985 with the completion of her graduate thesis, Disclosure of Marijuana Use to Health Care Professionals while at Case Western Reserve University.  Many of the respondents unexpectedly reported “medicinal” use of cannabis rather than recreational use.  Ms. Mathre served as the Director of NORML’s Council on Marijuana & Health from 1986 – 1992 and on NORML’s Board of Directors from 1988 - 94.  In
April of 2004, ML Mathre was the first recipient of the Pauline Sabine Award
and has lived and worked in the tradition as a leader of nurses and women in the
modern day effort to again rid the US of a failed prohibition agenda.

ML Mathre is co-founder and President of Patients Out of Time (incorporated in 1995),
a non-profit organization devoted to educating health care professionals and the public about the therapeutic uses of cannabis.  Ms. Mathre has written resolutions for several professional organizations in support of patient access to medical marijuana, including those of the Virginia Nurses Society on Addictions, the Virginia Nurses Association, the National Nurses Society on Addictions, and the American Public Health Association.  She has served on the planning committee for Patients Out of Time’s accredited biennial National Clinical Conference on Cannabis Therapeutics series since it began in 2000.  Her work was featured in The American Nurse ( “A Virginia nurse takes on a tough issue: Medical Marijuana,” by Susan Trossman, Nov/Dec, 2000 ), the official publication of the American Nurses Association.  Ms Mathre served on the editorial board of the Journal of Cannabis Therapeutics, published by Haworth Press from 2000 to 2003, when the journal was discontinued.
 
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