Fully paralyzed Canadian man’s wheelchair seized because of legal medical marijuana use
Friday, September 4th, 2009 at 4:30 pm | By: Radical Russ
CANNABIS CULTURE – A Canadian care home resident with full body paralysis was confined to his bed against his will after his wheelchair was seized by caregivers – all because he smokes medical marijuana to relieve his Multiple Sclerosis.CHBC news reported yesterday that Nyle Nagy, a Kelowna, British Columbia man who lives at the Brookhaven care home, was forcefully removed from his wheelchair and put in bed for a week after manager Adrien Vaughan objected to his legal use of medical marijuana.
“She sent two men over here to take my wheelchair and tell me that I’ve got to stay in this chair for seven days, as a punishment”, Nagy told the TV crew.
“To get rid of my pain and my spasms, that’s the only two reasons I smoke it” said Nagy, who has a license from the Canadian government to smoke marijuana.
Cannabis Culture has a video interview with the man as well. This is the stigma even legal users of medical marijuana still face. Sure, places like Canada, California, Colorado, and others won’t arrest you and lock you up if you’re a legit medical marijuana patient, but medical marijuana laws don’t force employers, hospitals, care facilities, landlords, or the government to accommodate your use of medical marijuana. You’re perfectly free to use your medical marijuana, so long as you don’t mind homelessness, joblessness, removal from the organ transplant list, and revocation of your pain medications.
Don’t like it? Well, here, try some liver-killing addictive pharmaceuticals instead. Yes, I know, they can cause constipation, sexual dysfunction, nausea, lethargy, sleep disturbance, and in severe cases, death, but the good news is that your employers, hospitals, care facilities, landlords, and the government are statutorily forbidden from discriminating against you for using those drugs, or even asking if you use those drugs in most cases, thanks to the Americans with Disabilities Act. That’s a federal law, which naturally doesn’t apply to medical marijuana, because as far as the feds are concerned, medical marijuana is an oxymoron.
Topics: ada, British Columbia, Canada, disabilities, pharmaceuticals
In the country of my birth, before it became a fascist police state, there were laws protecting us from cruel and unusual punishment.
Man, messed up.
How is this kind of discrimination not protected against in Canada where I thought medical marijuana and medical rights were protected .?
Wow what a control freak that bitch is,to steal a quad’s wheelchair.i hope she burns in hell
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