O'Leary-Randall, Alice

Alice O'Leary-Randall is the widow of Robert C. Randall, America's first legal recipient of federal supplies of marijuana for medical purposes. Alice and Robert knew one another for more than three decades and were married for 27 years. Together they cracked the medical prohibition of marijuana in the U.S. and forged a new movement in America -- the medical marijuana movement. Alice and Robert founded the Alliance for Cannabis Therapeutics in 1980 and the Marijuana AIDS Research Service in 1991. Following Robert's death in 2001, Alice returned to school and became a nurse in order to pursue he...