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Author: Tim HowardTim Howard Date: May 26, 2008 14:17
Read this editorial; there are other sources one can find on the
internet that also address this issue. Why would they not give organs
to people who use pot? It sounds like another example of the type of
moralizing and shaming that the US has been doing to the most helpless
and most in need in our society. This has been going on since the early
90s "family values" era and both major parties are guilty of doing it.
From the Ventura Co. Star...
Editorial: Dying over drug politics
Past time to resolve conflict
Thursday, May 22, 2008
The conflict over state and federal medical marijuana laws must be resolved.
California and 12 other states now allow the use of medical marijuana,
yet the federal government does not.
That means sick people with authorization from their doctors to use
marijuana are still in legal jeopardy, that California employers can
fire workers who use marijuana recommended by a physician, and that
people in need of an organ transplant can be barred from
organ-transplant waiting lists.
Too bad there is not a common-sense transplant.
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Author: JoeJoe Date: May 26, 2008 22:49
On May 26, 5:17 pm, Tim Howard suddenlink.net> wrote:> The University of Washington Medical Center, which has strict rules
> about organ recipients' drug use, denied Mr. Garon a shot at a new
> liver, in part, because marijuana is illegal under federal law.
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> He died May 1.
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> Now, the University of Washington Medical Center is using the same sorry
> reason to deny a spot on its organ-transplant list to Jonathon Simchen,
> 33, of Seattle, according to a May 19 article in The Los Angeles Times.
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> The Times reported Mr. Simchen, a diabetic with failing kidneys and
> pancreas, was also denied a spot in Seattle's Virginia Mason Hospital
> transplant program because of his use of medical marijuana.
>
> Mr. Simchen cannot afford to wait for Congress to get around to
> resolving the state-federal law conflict. It has already been three
> years since the U.S. Supreme Court recommended that Congress act.
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> However, medical centers do not have to base life-and-death decisions on ...
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Author: John JonesJohn Jones Date: May 27, 2008 11:50
Joe wrote:
> On May 26, 5:17 pm, Tim Howard suddenlink.net> wrote:>> The University of Washington Medical Center, which has strict rules
>> about organ recipients' drug use, denied Mr. Garon a shot at a new
>> liver, in part, because marijuana is illegal under federal law.
>>
>> He died May 1.
>>
>> Now, the University of Washington Medical Center is using the same sorry
>> reason to deny a spot on its organ-transplant list to Jonathon Simchen,
>> 33, of Seattle, according to a May 19 article in The Los Angeles Times.
>>
>> The Times reported Mr. Simchen, a diabetic with failing kidneys and
>> pancreas, was also denied a spot in Seattle's Virginia Mason Hospital
>> transplant program because of his use of medical marijuana.
>>
>> Mr. Simchen cannot afford to wait for Congress to get around to
>> resolving the state-federal law conflict. It has already been three
>> years since the U.S. Supreme Court recommended that Congress act.
>> ...
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