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 Medical pot user, 47, with AIDS sues state [CO]
#7089145 - 06/24/07 09:54 PM (4 years, 10 months ago) |
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Medical pot user, 47, with AIDS sues state
June 23, 2007 - Rocky Mountain News
 An AIDS patient who says he needs to smoke marijuana every day to ease nausea from his medications is suing the state of Colorado to expand access to marijuana providers.
"My medicines are really devastating. The only thing that soothes the nausea is medical marijuana," said Damien LaGoy, 47, of Denver, who is suing the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. He was diagnosed with HIV in 1987 and hepatitis C a decade later. LaGoy said his cocktail of 11 medications triggers nausea that is as bad as "the worst case of the flu or food poisoning."
LaGoy is one of 1,350 users of medical marijuana registered with the state, according to Brian Vicente, head of Sensible Colorado, a group that promotes medical marijuana.
But LaGoy says it's a struggle to get it. He and Vicente say Colorado health department leaders met secretly in 2004 and decided to limit providers of medical marijuana to five patients at a time. LaGoy said he found a registered provider, also called a caretaker, only to be turned away because the provider already had a full slate of patients.
"The caregiver is the person who grows the plants and provides them to you legally and safely," LaGoy said.
He said he has not been able to find legal caretakers and has had to rely on friends who have supplied him with illegal pot or forgo his medications to prevent the nausea.
"There's no way to find out who these caregivers are," LaGoy said. "You can't open the Yellow Pages like you find a doctor or dentist."
Lori Maldonado, spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, declined to discuss LaGoy's charge that the department violated Colorado's open meetings law by conducting a closed meeting in 2004 to establish policy about access to medical marijuana providers.
Vicente, who is LaGoy's lawyer, filed suit Friday on behalf of his client in Denver District Court and said he's seeking a change in Colorado's policy. Voters approved the use of medical pot in 2000.
"The intent is to allow sick people to get the medicine they need," Vicente said. "We would like to meet with them (the state) and have them drop this arbitrary cap."
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Re: Medical pot user, 47, with AIDS sues state [CO] [Re: veggie]
#7089174 - 06/24/07 09:59 PM (4 years, 10 months ago) |
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you go man! good luck
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OneMoreRobot3021
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Re: Medical pot user, 47, with AIDS sues state [CO] [Re: veggie]
#7089184 - 06/24/07 10:01 PM (4 years, 10 months ago) |
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Go go gadget, c'mon!
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Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake.
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Re: Medical pot user, 47, with AIDS sues state [CO] [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
#7089356 - 06/24/07 11:05 PM (4 years, 10 months ago) |
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Re: Medical pot user, 47, with AIDS sues state [CO] [Re: Phish_Dude]
#7089576 - 06/25/07 01:16 AM (4 years, 10 months ago) |
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if i could id grow it myself... why cant he become a caregiver?
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dutchmushroom
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Re: Medical pot user, 47, with AIDS sues state [CO] [Re: veggie]
#7089965 - 06/25/07 06:20 AM (4 years, 10 months ago) |
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because he's not above the law like the got damn cops!
peace out Dm
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Re: Medical pot user, 47, with AIDS sues state [CO] [Re: dutchmushroom]
#7091148 - 06/25/07 01:48 PM (4 years, 10 months ago) |
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Imagine throwing up every day like you have food poisoning.
A lot of people just see articles like this and think about reversing the drug war and wanting a freer society all the way around so they can "trip ballz".
but try to really imagine being that sick all the time.
And then being denied a medication effective in combatting it.
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OneMoreRobot3021
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Re: Medical pot user, 47, with AIDS sues state [CO] [Re: SCleROTiUM_LICK]
#7091268 - 06/25/07 02:34 PM (4 years, 10 months ago) |
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Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake.
-Erik Davis
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Re: Medical pot user, 47, with AIDS sues state [CO] [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
#7093418 - 06/26/07 12:36 AM (4 years, 10 months ago) |
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He should put an ad in the paper looking for marijuana; since he can smoke legally. A FOAF`s doctor told him to go find some marijuana for
severe Arthritis and joint pain; I`m sure anyone whos ever worked a physically demanding job and smoked a joint afterwards can understand the benefit of med. marijuana, sclerotium. The same doctor`s son is retarded and crippled from a live polio vaccination.
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Re: Medical pot user, 47, with AIDS sues state [CO] [Re: veggie]
#7128157 - 07/04/07 10:14 AM (4 years, 10 months ago) |
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July 3, 2007 - myfoxcolorado.com
Judge Blocks Medical Marijuana Growing Rule
Judge says pot growers can sell to more than 5 patients
A Denver District Court judge on Tuesday issued a preliminary injunction, blocking the state from enforcing a rule that says no grower of medical marijuana can provide it to more than five patients.
The ruling by Denver District Judge Larry Naves came after a five-hour hearing in a suit brought last month by 47-year-old Damien LaGoy.
LaGoy, who is suffering from AIDS and Hepatitis C, was denied permission from the state to obtain medical marijuana from his chosen supplier, because that supplier already had five approved clients.
The limit of five was not part of the state’s medical marijuana law as passed by voters in 2000, and was established instead as policy to implement that law by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.
“The number five was really just pulled out of the blue,” said Brian Vicente, attorney for LaGoy and director of Sensible Colorado, a non-profit group which advocates on drug laws and policy.
LaGoy, who said medical marijuana is the only solution for relieving the crippling nausea caused by the regimen of pills he must take for his illnesses, filed his lawsuit against the state and numerous state officials June 22.
Tuesday’s preliminary injunction means not only that the five-patient limit now does not apply for now to LaGoy and his chosen provider; it applies to medical marijuana users and providers across the state.
“The state adopted this arbitrary policy saying that five is enough,” said Vicente. “It’s tantamount to saying a doctor can only service five patients or a pharmacy can only service five patients at a time.”
Mark Salley, a spokesman for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, said “In light of the judge’s decision, we will be revisiting the policy and deciding how best to represent the intentions of the citizens of the State of Colorado.”
LaGoy, who testified at Tuesday’s hearing, was relieved at the decision.
“I’d like to thank the judge for probably, very possibly, saving my life,” said LaGoy, who former nurse’s aid who lives in Denver and survives on disability payments. “Now, I can probably get some medical marijuana. I can start taking my meds I have been missing, and getting chastised by roommates, friends and doctors.”
Because Naves’ ruling is a preliminary injunction, there could be further proceedings in LaGoy’s case – unless the state now revises its policy in the wake of Tuesday’s court decision.
“The process from here,” Vicente said, “is we’ll be applying for a summary judgment, asking the judge to basically rule (permanently) in our favor based on the testimony we’ve established so far.
“If that is not granted, we will go to trial, I would imagine, in the fall.”
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