About Alice

Thanks for visiting my blog site.  My name is Alice, and throughout my life, I have heard others exclaim, “Alice in Wonderland!”  Guilty as charged.  I may not be the original Alice in the blue dress, but I sometimes feel like the young girl who fell down the rabbit hole.  

I have been fortunate to have a rich, full life.  There have been many adventures, some of which have already been chronicled in Medical Marijuana in America: Memoir of a Pioneer, my autobiography (follow the link to Amazon.com).  In 1976, my late husband, Robert C. Randall, became the first American to gain legal access to marijuana for medical purposes. Robert became the “father” of the medical marijuana movement, and together, we spent more than two decades working to remove the prohibitions against the use of cannabis in medicine.

Robert died in 2001, and for a while, I felt like the woman in Nanci Griffith’s moving song, “A Clock Without Hands.”  But with time, my new path started to emerge. I returned to school and became a nurse to work in hospice.  I worked with hospice for nearly seven years before retiring in 2012.

At that point, I had been away from the medical marijuana movement for more than a decade, and much had changed. I began getting calls to give speeches and write articles about the movement’s history. I returned as a “pioneer” and found a new life awaited me. I never imagined I would have such a fulfilling life after retirement. You can learn more about that at aliceolearyrandall.com. 

For five years, I worked with Mary’s Medicinals, a medical cannabis supplier headquartered in Denver. I was their traveling ambassador and created many of their educational materials.

In 2019, with my good friend Eloise Theisen, I wrote Pain-Free with CBD. 

Today, I have once again retired, but the medical cannabis story keeps calling me back. I am currently an adjunct instructor of medical cannabis studies at Pacific College of Health & Science. 

It has been a fine, exciting, and generous life.  I hope you, the readers, agree.