Medical Marijuana Patient Dying After Dr's Denied Transplant

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Tim Garon, talented musician and Hepatitis C patient, is dying after being denied a liver transplant for having used legal medical marijuana on the advice of his physician.

The University of Washington Medical Center is now backpedaling away from their earlier admission that Garon was, in fact, denied the transplant because of medical marijuana. They now vaguely cite other factors, but it's too late: Two separate physicians, including Transplant chief Dr. Jorge Reyes, already admitted in an Associated Press story over the weekend that marijuana was the reason.

In that story, Dr. Reyes said Garon was denied the transplant because he, Dr. Reyes, feared that Garon wouldn't be able to stop smoking marijuana after the operation. And another UW doctor claimed that marijuana commonly contains mold that could cause organ rejection in a transplant patient. Both of these are tacit admissions that marijuana was the reason Tim Garon was rejected as a transplant recipient.

Tim Garon did nothing wrong; medical marijuana is legal in the state of Washington, and is less toxic to the liver than anything else he could have taken to lesson his nausea and pain.

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[skillitt1]

Americans for Freedom Unite; do not pay IRS, plant Marijuana, refuse to obey all illegal orders, stand up for The Bill of Rights, wreak havoc! There's too many of us! Fight the new World Order & this immoral illegal corrupt govt.!

[zekdom]

@guitar7901 Sigh* Many of my friends have been smoking it for years, and their lungs are normal. I too, have first hand experience :D Just read the Public Health Journal 2011 and the Neoplasm Journal 2008. The Neoplasm Journal 2008 presents a study that looked at smokers and their diets. The smokers that ate fruits and vegetables had a sudden decrease in lung cancer risk. However, the smokers that ate meat and dairy had an increase in lung cancer risk. Adherence to a Mediterreanean diet is key.

[B2Honest]

People Please here me Out, I live in Holland Weed is Legal Here, But there is a problem going on in Holland about weed now, because germans and other neigbours coming in to holland for weed, they want to give us weed cards for ech person so they can see who using it This rule didnt come from Holland.. Its from Europ 1/4 of the New World Order Please people and I say please Fight this go search what the new world order is. Everybody know that coffeeshops in Holland are everywhere for years

[grunekc]

@guitar7901 Sad....

[Freshtildeath6]

@guitar7901 What the fuck, you must be out of your mind, hope you know assholes that run this "great" country are ignorant fucks like YOU. Rot in hell with the rest of em.

[guitar7901]

@skillitt1 Its that type of attitude that fucks this country up. People wonder why this country is in such great debt, well its because of fuckers like you who do not pay their taxes, you are given the freedom to do whatever you would like with in legal boundaries and you abuse that privilege...FUCK OFF!!!!

[guitar7901]

@Freshtildeath6 You have to register because there are ignorant fucks such as you, You are given freedom and in return you can give 4 years of your life to protecting this great country

[ProWoWRunner]

@guitar7901 Sir, you are just ignorant... There is NO evidence what so ever saying that Marijuana is bad for you. The only thing scientific proof, is that the inhalation of smoke is bad.. *duh* But for some odd reasons, Marijuana smoke has NEVER CAUSED CANCER, NOR KILLED ANYONE!

I think thats proof enough for me, that someone can smoke Cannabis for 60 years and have clean lungs, and not just one or two, but thousands.

[CRITIKCK]

@guitar7901 hahaha wow you are so ignorant. Go do more research

[CRITIKCK]

Fuck them all. Bitch add fools. LEGALIZE CANNABIS!

[62rome]

fucking doctors.

[Freshtildeath6]

We are not free, why the fuck do we have to register when we turn 18. We are FORCED. Freedom my ass.