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America's 1st Legal Weed Patient Smoked 10 Joints a Day Supplied By the Feds

America's 1st Legal Weed Patient Smoked 10 Joints a Day Supplied By the Feds

Great Moments in Weed History

June 14, 20231h 3m

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Show Notes

Starting in 1976, the National Institute on Drug Abuse supplied Robert Randall with enough government-grown cannabis to treat his severe glaucoma.

While lighting a perfectly legal joint on CNN, Randall once explained to Larry King that keeping the condition in check required puffing 10 joints per day.

To hear the incredible story of how he ended up as America's first federally legal cannabis patient, we spoke with Alice O'Leary Randall, his wife and partner in a decades-long campaign to make cannabis legally available to the millions of people who wish to use the plant medicinally.

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