Martin H. Chilcutt is a veteran of the U.S. Naval Air Force, working in Air Intelligence. He has a service-connected disability associated with ionizing radiation exposure during the testing of nuclear weapons, and is a three time cancer survivor. He also has chronic PTSD, and is currently a patient in the V.A. healthcare system.
Chilcutt has degrees in Clinical Psychology, and practiced as a licensed psychotherapist in California. After moving to Denver, Colo., he volunteered his services as an individual and group psychotherapist with seriously ill patients suffering from cancer, HIV/AIDS, multiple sclerosis, and other diseases. Many of these patients were veterans using medical marijuana with the knowledge and assistance of their healthcare providers, including V.A. providers. Chilcutt created Coloradans for Medical Rights, raised more than $600,000, and directed the political campaign to amend the Colorado constitution to legalize marijuana for medical use in 1999-2000. Amendment 20 was successfully passed by 60 percent of the voters.
In 2006, Chilcutt lobbied the American Medical Association at their convention in Chicago to assert patients' rights and to promomote medical research on marijuana.
Chilcutt organized Veterans for Medical Marijuana Access at the suggestion of some supporters in congress, to help veterans.
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