This action was taken in September of 1998 and was considered to be a positive factor in that state's electorate voting to allow their physicians to prescribe medical Cannabis to the ill. Patients Out of Time both assisted and endorsed nurses in Alaska who presented their organization this opportunity to publicly act as patient advocates. The original state nursing association to adopt a resolution calling on the federal government to desist from it's policy of incarcerating the sick and dying was from the conservative state of Virginia. The Virginia Nurses Association which represents 78,000 nurses throughout that state, did so in the fall of 1994.
Nurses also play a significant role in politics.
Patients Out of Time represents six of the eight patients in the US that receive their medical marijuana from the federal government. Out of Time has compiled its list of supporting organizations to confront the assertions by the drug czar, General McCaffrey and other federal officials who claim there are no health care groups that support medical marijuana.