Longtime advocate for Medical Cannabis and patient's rights, Mae Nutt saw that marijuana helped her son Keith endure Cancer treatment. He died in 1979, on the day that Michigan passed a Medical Cannabis law, after testimony by her family in Senate hearings.
Mae championed the cause of compassion for over 25 years, speaking at several conferences on Cannabis Therapeutics, including this one in Charlottesville, VA in May, 2004, hosted by Patients Out of Time.