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America! Fuck Yeah!

Ron Fisher posted an announcement to the cause NORML.

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Subject: Patient Denied A Liver Transplant For Physician-Recommended, Legal Medical Marijuana Use

http://blog.norml.org/2008/05/02/patient-in-washington-state-denied-a-liver-transplant-for-physician-recommended-legal-medical-marijuana-use-is-sacrificed-on-the-alter-of-pot-prohibition/

Timothy Garon is dead. Why did he die?

The medical records will show that he died due to complications associated with massive liver failure. He would have likely survived longer if he received a timely organ transplant but was denied access because he followed his physician’s recommendation, used medical cannabis during his treatments for liver disease, therefore testing positive for THC metabolites and rather than receive the gift of a potentially longer life—instead doctors at the University of Washington deferred to federal prohibition laws and mores, handing Tim a death sentence.

There are no pharmacological or physiological reasons why Tim Garon, or any medical marijuana patient, should logically be denied access to life-saving or life-enhancing organ transplants.

In my view, commonsense and humanity were completely lacking here on the part of the doctors who denied Tim and his family a chance at a continued life together.

For the better part of ten years NORML (and the ACLU’s Drug Litigation Project) have been 1) monitoring increasing numbers of medical patients denied access to organ transplants for the singular reason that they test positive for cannabis and 2) researching litigation and legislative options to compel organ banks to stop discriminating against medical patients who use cannabis, most especially in states where medical marijuana patients are supposed to be protected by state laws.

Today’s weather in Seattle calls for cloudy and dark weather. That is hardly unusual for this time of year up there, but on this day, the clouds will be particular dark…notably the ones hanging over the doctors at the University of Washington who decided earlier this week to sacrifice Timothy Garon on the altar of pot prohibition rather than treat him like an ailing brother or a sister, wife or child.

Would these doctors really deny organ transplants to a loved one that tested positive for cannabis? I think not.

Read a previous article about Tim Garon’s plight.
http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=7591

Then view a moving news account of Tim and his family.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qAoc_UKS4Y

Finally, send a prewritten letter in favor of federal legislation that would prevent tragic stories such as these.
http://capwiz.com/norml2/issues/alert/?alertid=11280351

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Re: medical marijuana death sentence [Re: JT]
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looks like someone beat me to it, nvm.

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Re: medical marijuana death sentence [Re: JT]
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I guess not "justin thyme" huh?


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ca'rouse (k-rouz)
intr.v.
To engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking.

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Re: medical marijuana death sentence [Re: TODAY]
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Murderers, plain and simple. If it was a drug that would interfer with other meds given during operation there is a valid medical reason to deny him. But this is murder, there was no medical reason to deny him an operation because of the "drug" in his system. Especially since it was prescribed. They wouldnt do such a thing to someone like me who eats over 100mg of morphine a day for pain, but they will to someone who uses cannabis? WTF...fuck that.

It was all based off their choice of morals and ethics. Not off of their Hypocratic Oath that they swear too... But on the same note... it was totally agreed on and decided to give 80 some year old Mickey Fucking Mantle a liver to replace his alcohol destroyed one...this too was decided to be done over giving it to a 14 year old girl who also needed the same liver. Of course MM got it and she died. He died 2 weeks later after the transplant simply because it was time and he was old. 2 dead 1 innocent because of their political choice... Transplants arent done in the right order, thats a fact, they are done in the most popular and proper political order based on someone elses agenda. I think his family should sue for malpractice.


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