Official Policy Statement

The organization known as Patients Out of Time is a non-profit 501c4 corporation of the Commonwealth of Virginia that shall lobby and educate all disciplines of health care professionals; their specialty and professional 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 shall focus its power to re-institute 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.

Patients Out of Time 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. Patients Out of Time will assist in providing educational tools and/or speakers in such efforts. Patients Out of Time will gratefully accept any donations to help in its efforts towards getting marijuana legally accessible to those who medically need it.

Patients Out of Time has no other interest, nor does the organization have any opinion, stated or unstated, about any issue other than therapeutic cannabis. All educating, lobbying, communication or any other endeavor of Patients Out of Time shall be limited to the sole subject Marijuana as Medicine!