(Des Moines Register) A caregiver at a Waterloo nursing home has been fired after she was accused of providing a resident with marijuana and sexual favors.
The incident involves Tina Turner, 29, of Evansdale, who worked as a nurse aide at Harmony House. She was fired in May after her co-workers reported allegations that she had given marijuana to a 28-year-old resident with muscular dystrophy and had stimulated him sexually.
According to state records, three of Turner’s co-workers told Harmony House’s administrator that the disabled resident had admitted smoking marijuana in the facility. A fourth worker said the man’s room had smelled of Axe Body Spray, which the resident allegedly told the staff was used to mask the smell of the marijuana.
At a recent state hearing dealing with her request for unemployment benefits, Turner testified that while she discussed marijuana with the resident, she never had sex with him or procured drugs for him.
“It started out when he said, ‘I know there’s a lot of people in this facility that smoke marijuana,’ and I said, ‘Yeah,’ ” Turner testified. “He says, ‘Well, I’d like to try it so it could help with my pain.’ … I said that I wished he could smoke marijuana.”
The problem here is the Complicated Disaster that forbids disabled Iowans from using safe and effective medical marijuana. If you ask me, this kind of caregiver is Simply The Best. We Don’t Need Another Hero, we need more courageous caregivers from Des Moines, Iowa, to the Nutbush City Limits who will cross River Deep, Mountain High to help patients manage their pain with medical marijuana. As for the sexual favors, What’s Love Got To Do With It? Yes, it is improper for a nurse’s aide to be a patient’s Private Dancer, but they are both consenting adults, so I can’t get too upset if she might Shake a Tail Feather for a disabled Typical Male now and then.
Sorry about the Tina Turner jokes, I just couldn’t help myself, Please direct any complaints to 634-5789, but you Better Be Good To Me… arrrgghh I can’t stop!
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I feel a lot safer knowing my wife or girlfriend is not going to be raped or assaulted by a negro or mexican thanks to these nazi’s efforts.Whew!
If they would only take a serious financial look at Medical Marijuana they would realize that, if taxed, Medical Marijuana would generate more money than the Feds dish out. Iowa would have a financial boon if “Hemp” were legalized, a total cash crop like corn. But Hemp is better on the soil. I know that the therapeutic effects of marijuana, which existed prior to 1937, are still there and as safe as it always has been. Despite law enforcement, while trying to practice medicine, tells people that Marijuana is addictive and may even, “give a black man the courage to look a white man in the eye” this is a quote from our Federal Governments propaganda against marijuana back in the 30′s and 40′s, not mine. Marijuana has the longest safe and effective track record of any drug known to man. Know new science has come up to further prove the safe and effective therapeutic effects of marijuana. Will the IBOP approve of a drug that they will have no part in dispensing? Not likely, remember money talks…the Board is scared stiff if you want my opinion. I suggest each Board member roll up a fatty and chill!!!
Another victim of a law that the people, “feel is wrong and oppressive.” This is a quote from a newspaper headline during Alcohol Prohibition. This rings of the years when D.A.R.E. would get elementary school children to tell on their parents if they were using marijuana. More and more the U.S. Federal Government is acting like a facist state. The state of Iowa and its Gov Cet Culver will probably not allow Medical Marijuana for Iowa simply because of the $5 million grant money they recieve from the feds to work within Iowa with the DEA to arresst Medical Marijuana patients and their providers. Every now and then they bust a Meth lab just to make things look better. I am getting fed up, if SF 293 does not pass…Kalamazoo, Mich., is only 700 miles away. Freedom here I come.
http://tinyurl.com/n5x2fg – IOWA BOARD OF PHARMACY MEDICAL MARIJUANA HEARINGS–August 19 – the real DEATH PANEL
Man, that’s one fine person, that nurse’s aide, Tina Turner! She should be rewarded, not fired…She went above and beyond to help a patient get some relief (not to mention release) and should be promoted to “head” nurse.
