Alliance for Cannabis Therapeutics

The Alliance for Cannabis Therapeutics (ACT) is an organization supporting medical marijuana that was founded in 1981 by Robert C. Randall and Alice O'Leary.

The ACT'S goal was to establish federal access to marijuana for individuals with serious and/or life threatening conditions, a polarizing conversation during the time period.

Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, a democrat from California, never formally held hearings in part due to his own agenda of establishing heroin as a federally regulated therapeutic agent and worried that the ACT bill would undermine the cause.

Clare Hodges aka Elizabeth Brice founded the UK Alliance for Cannabis Therapeutics (ACT) after contacting the Alice O'Leary and Robert Randall in 1992 about the medical benefits of marijuana for individuals suffering from multiple sclerosis.

[3] Using the pseudonym Clare Hodges, Brice wrote extensively about her cannabis usage and the positive effects on her mental and physical health dealing with MS.