For: Immediate Media Attention

Patients Out of Time is pleased to announce that the Nursing profession has again spoken openly and forcefully for patient rights.

On October 15, 2004 the Connecticut Nurses Association at their annual conference passed a resolution in support of therapeutic cannabis/marijuana.

The resolution, passed by a vote of over 99% affirming, echoes the statements of eleven other professional state nursing associations, the American Nurses Association, the National Nurses Society on Addictions and dozens of other professional health care organizations.

The resolution calls for: “patients to have safe access to therapeutic marijuana/cannabis under appropriate prescriber supervision.” The resolution supports legislation to remove criminal penalties for patients and prescribers of therapeutic cannabis, the removal of cannabis from schedule 1 (prohibited), “the continuance of controlled investigational
trials on the therapeutic efficacy of cannabis, including alternate methods of administration”, the education of registered nurses regarding clinical use and the open discussion of the medical use of marijuana by professional health care providers “without the threat of intimidation or penalization.”

The sponsor of the resolution, Lorraine Jalbert, RN, is Secretary of the Connecticut Cancer Pain Initiative and Chairperson of the Professional Practice Committee of the Connecticut Nurses Association. She is a clinical Oncology, Hospice, AIDS and Pain Management expert and a case manager with Anthem Blue Cross-Blue Shield in Connecticut.

Patients Out of Time is a national educational charity that educates the public and health care professionals about therapeutic cannabis.

Press contact: Al Byrne, Co-founder
Patients Out of Time
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