Title: President Biography

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

Email: ml@medicalcannabis.com

Expertise: Marijuana, Therapeutic Cannabis, Harm Reduction, Addictions

Publications: (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.

(2001, September). Cannabis: the whole story (Overview, Part I of a series).
The Drug and Alcohol Professional (UK). 1(1)

(2001, April). Therapeutic Cannabis: a patient advocacy issue. American Journal of Nursing. 101(4).

(1997). 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.

(1985). Disclosure of Marijuana Use to Health Care Professionals. (thesis).
Cleveland, OH: Case Western Reserve University.
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Mary Lynn Mathre is co-founder and President of Patients Out of Time,
a non-profit organization devoted to educating health care professionals
and the public about the therapeutic uses of cannabis.

She works with 5 of the 7 remaining legal medical marijuana patients, who are enrolled
in the federal Compassionate IND program. 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 served on the planning committee for The First National Clinical Conference on Cannabis Therapeutics:
Medical Marijuana – Science Based Clinical Applications, co-sponsored
by Patients Out of Time and the University of Iowa Colleges of Nursing and Medicine
(April 7 & 8, 2000), and is on the planning committee for The Second National
Clinical Conference on Cannabis Therapeutics: Analgesia and Other Indications,
at Legacy Emmanuel Hospital, Portland, OR, May 3 & 4, 2002. Her work was
recently 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.

She is on the editorial board of the Journal of Cannabis Therapeutics
published by Haworth Press. Ms. Mathre served as the Director of NORML’s
Council on Marijuana & Health from 1986 - 1992.
She also served on NORML’s Board of Directors from 1988 - 94.

As a practicing nurse, Ms. Mathre works as the addictions consultant for the
University of Virginia Health System. Her role includes assessment of and
brief interventions for patients with substance abuse problems in the acute care setting
, as well as staff education. She 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 is a member of the
International Advisory Board for The Drug and Alcohol Professional (a new journal in the UK).

Mary Lynn Mathre RN, in April 2004 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.