Miscellaneous

Well that'll really harsh your mellow

Up in the Seattle area, a 56-year-old musician has died after he was denied a liver transplant. The reason? Because he was using medical marijuana prescribed to him by his doctor. The Medical Center said that they told Timothy Garon that he could get back on the donor list if he stayed away from pot for 6 months and/or enrolled in a drug treatment program. But his doctors told him he wasn't going to last that long anyway, which made the whole thing moot.

God damn this shit enrages me. There are many issues wrapped up in the cloud of medical marijuana smoke but the one that gets me here is that Garon was taking doctor prescribed medicine, so who the fuck is the medical center to decide that certain types of medicine gets you punted off the donor list while others are a-ok? If we weren't talking about legal (by state law, at least) medicinal herb prescribed by a doctor, I'd get it to some extent. But this? Enfuriating.

(Hat tip to reader Jenn K.)

Full post as published by Quiz Law on May 05, 2008 (boomark / email).