Cannabis historian begins work on 'Project 50'.

Alice O'Leary Randall has begun work on Project 50, a three-year research project that will culminate in 2026, the 50- year anniversary of when her late husband, Robert C. Randall, became the first legal cannabis patient in the country in November 1976. Many people believe the medical marijuana movement started with California in the 1990s, but one cannabis historian is hoping to shine a light on early pioneers with a research project to "preserve the history and memory of the many patients and lawmakers from the first two decades of the medical cannabis movement", according to a press release. New Mexico in 1978 enacted the country's first medical marijuana legislation, the Controlled Substances Therapeutic Research Act, which allowed a limited number of patients to receive cannabis from the federal government. [Extracted from the article]