Authorized Medical Marijuana User Who Was Denied Liver Transplant Dies

Source: Associated Press

Medical marijuana user who was denied liver transplant dies

Authorized medical marijuana user dies after being denied liver transplant in Seattle

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AP News

May 02, 2008 07:02 EST

A man who was denied a liver transplant because he used marijuana with medical approval to ease the symptoms of hepatitis C has died.

Timothy Garon, 56, died Thursday at Bailey-Boushay House, an intensive care nursing center, said his lawyer, Douglas Hiatt, and Alisha Mark, a spokeswoman for Virginia Mason Medical Center, which operates Bailey-Boushay.

His death came a week after his doctor told him a University of Washington Medical Center committee had again denied him a spot on the liver transplant list because of his use of marijuana, although it was authorized under Washington state law.

The case highlights an ethical consideration for those allocating organs for transplant: whether using dope with a doctor's blessing should be held against a dying patient in need of a transplant.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/news/mochila/Medical_marijuana_user_who_was_deni_05022008.html

This country is now a fascist fucking shithole!:grr:

Clinton never did anything to stop the absurd "war on drugs".

And...the asshole smoked pot and didn't know enough to inhale. :crazy:

Greatly accelerated under Clinton.

Go f*ck yourself with your BS pro-life crap.

of surviving.

It's not like the committee said, "Screw you!" and threw the liver in the trash.

Now whether or not the new recipient actually had a better chance of surviving and thriving is not for me to say, but habitual drug and alcohol abuse are generally considered good reasons to reject a candidate in favor of someone who would have a better chance.

Not every decision we disagree with is proof that this country is now a shithole. :(

And yes, it is proof that this country is a shithole.

in the article it says that they would have put him on the list after he completed a 60-day drug treatment class.l Clearly this was not about the state of his liver, but about some bullsh*t "above the influence"/DARE crap, which didn't even apply to him, as he was using medical marijuana.

they did say screw you. General policy is to give it to the sickest patients. You also made a large leap from legal medicinal marijuana to "habitual drug and alcohol abuse" ...Hook line and sinker

NT!

Legalize marijuana for the love of God. I mean this is even more reason to do away with this country's stupid marijuana laws, and just treat pot like alcohol or tobacco, which kill you. Pot doesn't. Fuck the medical system too.

Can't help the "undesirables", you know. Aww, crap. That means us "Liberal Commie Pinko Bastards", doesn't it?

May they live every day in incurable pain and all help denied.

Not willfull ignorance. Willfull stupidity.

Infuckingsanity!

Brought to you by Satan's nearest branch location. (They call themselves churches)

Our government looking out for the people.

But the man who died used cannibis as medicine, not for fun. Thou shalt not have medicine is even worse. It is medicine.

(No argument with your point)

:(

Pot's Shot
Marijuana Activists Sense Something In The Air - Besides Smoke

http://www.freetimes.com/stories/15/52/pots-shot

Intent as ever to shake the Reagan propaganda for good and get people to start calling weed "grass" again, Cleveland's cannabis activists are on the march. Again. For the 10th-annual worldwide Million Marijuana March. After three years sitting out. And no, the grass had nothing to do with it.

John Hartman, the longtime de facto leader of the region's cannabis activist community as owner of Lakewood's Cannabis Connection and founder of the Ohio Cannabis Society, died in February after years of intensifying kidney dialysis. A transplant could have saved him, his friends say, but that wasn't happening in today's climate of ignorance and fear.

"He got knocked off the transplant list because he tested positive for pot," says Jerry J., another longtime activist who was on his way to visit Hartman at the nursing home when he learned of his death. "He got the death sentence for pot."

Jerry, a NORML activist since the '70s, says a vacuum formed when Hartman fell ill. For three years, the march was set aside. But enough was enough, he says. This march, coinciding with 200 others across the globe that've taken place on the first Saturday in May since 1999, will pay tribute to Hartman and another area activist, Joe Zoretic, who died unexpectedly in the past year. But after a moment of silence, the gathering will assume its traditionally festive air...

Even if it's legal in your state but illegal under federal law.

NEVER ADMIT ANY WRONGDOING!

Not well, if there is any justice.

Side effects?

Nothing to see here, folks. C'mon keep moving.

equally heinous, but different, crimes, such as, say spitting on the sidewalk? :mad: :D

Edited for context

Source: Raw Story


Authorized medical marijuana user dies after being denied liver transplant in Seattle

May 02, 2008 15:27 EST

A man who was denied a liver transplant largely because he used marijuana with medical approval to ease the symptoms of hepatitis C has died.

Timothy Garon, 56, died Thursday at Bailey-Boushay House, an intensive care nursing center, said his lawyer, Douglas Hiatt, and Alisha Mark, a spokeswoman for Virginia Mason Medical Center, which operates Bailey-Boushay.

His death came a week after a doctor told him a University of Washington Medical Center committee had again denied him a spot on the liver transplant list. The team had previously told him it would not consider placing him on the list until he completed a 60-day drug-treatment class.

The case highlights an ethical consideration for those allocating organs for transplant: whether using dope with a doctor's blessing should be held against a dying patient in need of a transplant.



Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/news/mochila/Medical_marijuana_user_who_was_deni_05022008.html

for kicks. This was part of his treatment.

Dogs get to die with more comfort and dignity.

in what people think about this?

Orin C. Smith, retired president and chief executive officer of Starbucks Coffee Co., is chair of the UW Medicine board. He is a member of several other boards of directors in the community, including the YMCA of Greater Seattle and the Alliance for Education. He joined Starbucks in 1990 and has headed all business activities there since 1994. He previously spent 14 years with Deloitte and Touche in management consulting, has taught at the college level and served in two state administrations as chief financial officer.

I can't find any contact info for the illustrious Mr. Smith, but here's the "Community Relations" phone number for UW Medical Center: 206-543-3620

was he denied a liver - I mean, was there a liver waiting to be transplanted, or was he denied a place on the list? I'm sure it's no comfort to his family to know that he probably would have had to wait too long anyway. Livers are in very short supply.

I knew someone who was on the OMMP program and didn't use it because he was on the transplant list, and they would kick him off if he smoked pot.

Many of my doctors would rather give me toxic drugs that leave their trash behind, rather than just let me use a non-toxic herbal remedy that works 1000 times better than their expensive drugs.

I wish this county would wake up!

"His death came a week after a doctor told him a University of Washington Medical Center committee had again denied him a spot on the liver transplant list. The team had previously told him it would not consider placing him on the list until he completed a 60-day drug-treatment class."

did it not say he used "Marinol" that was prescribed and it did not matter? That article indicated he was being denied a transplant because of Marinol, not because of smoking it and that the doctor accused him of smoking BECAUSE of the Marinol. Now this article says he was smoking it. Can anyone clear up?

Pot is much less harmful than alcohol or tobacco.

End this mindless "war on (some) drugs."

It isn't about the 'war on drugs'.

Tobacco and marijuana can contain mold. With the anti-rejection drugs necessary during, prior to, and following an organ transplant, the patient is very susceptible to fungal infection.

than the residual effects of pot on the system. It is the lesser of evils in so many circumstances, but because millions have not or could not be spent and made by Big Pharma's ritual of testing and marketing, pot is the illicit status it is.

I say advise Unos.Org that donation is off the table because you smoke weed. Let'm hear about it

http://www.unos.org/contact.asp

A friend had a liver transplant and they told him in no uncertain terms if he tested positive for pot they would NOT give him the transplant. It had NOTHING to do with whether pot was legal or how the doctors felt about smoking it.

He told me it was because after a liver transplant you have to take a lot of drugs and at least one of them does not react properly if there is pot in the system. I don’t profess to know all the details of this but that is what my friend told me. He died, but the liver did keep him alive about eight years. When he was in the hospital having the transplant the guy in the room next to him received the same instructions but he smoked pot and they refused him the transplant because they would be wasting it on him. He died.

I suspect the sixty days is to make sure it is completely out of the system otherwise they would be wasting a liver that could be given to someone who would be more likely to survive.

I have lived it. My hepatologist told me it was ok. Alcohol does skew testing , Pot does not

that is not what I was saying my friend who told me the guy in the room next to him was refused the liver because he smoked pot after being told not to.

What do you mean "testing" - I have said I do not claim to be an expert but what he said had nothing to with "testing" as I understood it. It had to do with how pot and the drugs one takes AFTER the transplant react.


Willing to learn but your answer I do not understand. Do you mean that the tests to tell if you have a problem with your liver are skewed by alcohol. That is not what I am saying.

liver function tests which when Do Not Show up. Alcohol , I have been told can mimic rejection results ( I have been told) At very least it negatively affects those LFTs.

bias of the transplant team involved. When I was waiting for my transplant, (I'm a non smoker) I went to a christmas party and went outside around the fire, there were probably two people smoking cigarettes. Next thing I know, the transplant hospital fired off a letter telling me that I was being taken off the list for SMOKING. I went in and told them they were full of shit, I am a non smoker and do NOT SMOKE, and they reran the tests and said it was "second hand smoke" level and they took me off the transplant list for THREE MONTHS!!! For three solid months I had to run from anybody I saw smoking. They ended up not transplanting me and I got cancer. I did get the transplant but the cancer has returned now, three years later, and I blame the hospital for their bullshit.

I tolf my dr when I had axcites so bad there was no room for food in my abdomen. smoked a little wee , and ate the whole meal. I told my doc. she said can't do it, and that was the end of the story.

merely suggesting my dying father could be comforted by marijuana.

The same folks who would support this crap claim to give a shit about the unborn. What a load of crap. Life goes to the highest bidder for slaves to a world decided by wealth. Disgusting....

Oh and all women have no choice over their own bodies. Great message! :sarcasm:

Mr.Garon.

they allowed that man to die, based on what?

How do they sleep at night?
Fucking murderers.