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Teen dies after plastic fumes scar lungs, media blames synthetic pot
So, we’re to assume here it was the K2 that scarred the boys lungs and not the freakin’ fumes from the melting plastic of a PEZ dispenser?!?
Oregon hospitals denying life saving organ transplants to legal medical marijuana patients
The only possible reason Legacy and OHSU have to deny transplants to medical marijuana patients is simply institutional bias against medical marijuana patients. A 2009 study in the American Journal of Transplant entitled “Marijuana use in potential liver transplant candidates” that looked at almost 1,500 cannabis-using and non-cannabis-using liver transplant patients over an eight-year span and concluded “patients who did and did not use marijuana had similar survival rates.”
Stash for Mon, Jan 25, 2010
Paul Armentano discusses the latest studies on cannabis and cancer; Douglas Hiatt discusses the tragedy of denying liver transplants to medical marijuana patients; music by Henry Butler.
Hawaii woman dies after being kicked off liver transplant list for marijuana use
(Honolulu Advertiser) Big Island resident Kimberly Reyes, who was diagnosed with Hepatitis in March 2008, had been told in July that she had less than 30 days to live. Her family claimed the Waimea resident had followed doctor’s orders, but her insurance carrier, Hawaii Medical Service Association, denied her coverage for a liver transplant she [...]
Fight to legalize medical marijuana in NC moves forward
Last week, a bill was introduced in the state General Assembly to allow patients registered with the state to possess, grow and use the drug for medicinal purposes. Patients would be protected from being refused employment, volunteer positions, organ transplants and child custody rights. What the bill wouldn’t do, however, is legalize marijuana for just [...]
New Study: Cannabis use has no impact on liver transplant survival
Longtime Stash listeners will remember the tragic story of Tim Garon, a Pacific Northwest man who was kicked off a liver transplant list because of his legal use of medical cannabis. Many, if not most transplant programs will refuse a patient with inactive cannabis metabolites based on gross prejudice against cannabis users and lack of [...]
Should Hepatitis C Patients Who Smoke Marijuana Be Eligible For Liver Transplants?
Should Hepatitis C Patients Who Smoke Marijuana Be Eligible For Liver Transplants? ScienceDaily (Oct. 22, 2008) — The pain is debilitating. The only option: smoking medical marijuana. That’s the reality for many hepatitis C patients whose road to health includes a liver transplant. Although Canadian transplant centres are more willing than those in the United [...]
Oregon hospitals also denying transplants to medical marijuana patients
Willamette Week | “Organ Failure” | May 21st, 2008 Garon, a 56-year-old professional musician who had hepatitis C, died after a University of Washington Medical Center committee denied him a spot on a liver-transplant list. Part of their reason: Garon used medical marijuana—which is legal under Washington law. Garon wouldn’t have fared any better in [...]
Medical marijuana patients face transplant hurdles
Medical marijuana patients face transplant hurdles | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle SEATTLE — Timothy Garon’s face and arms are hauntingly skeletal, but the fluid building up in his abdomen makes the 56-year-old musician look eight months pregnant. His liver, ravaged by hepatitis C, is failing. Without a new one, his doctors tell him, he will [...]
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