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ProvenPatriot
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5/2/2008 4:13 PM

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The Associated Press
Article Launched: 05/02/2008 05:03:27 AM PDT

SEATTLE—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.

The Virginia-based United Network for Organ Sharing, which oversees the nation's transplant system, leaves it to individual hospitals to develop criteria for transplant candidates.

At some, people who use "illicit substances"—including medical marijuana, even in the dozen states that allow it—are automatically rejected. At others, patients are given a chance to reapply if they stay clean for six months. Marijuana is illegal under federal law.

Dr. Brad Roter, who authorized Garon to smoke pot to alleviate nausea and abdominal pain and to stimulate his appetite, said he did not know it would be such a hurdle if Garon were to need a transplant.

Garon told The Associated Press last week he believed he contracted hepatitis C by sharing needles with "speed freaks" as a teenager. In recent years, he said, pot was been the only drug he used.

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Damn,... that's harsh

mcfees
User ID: 316413

Canada
5/2/2008 4:18 PM

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If he hadn't spent all his money on pot, he could buy a falun gong liver. That's what Master Puck would say.

Anonymous Coward
User ID: 426334

United States
5/2/2008 4:19 PM

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That's just so sad and stupid! When are people going to wake up and learn that marijuana is less harmful than many things that are LEGAL in this country? Grr!!

*Vishuz
User ID: 374870

United States
5/2/2008 4:21 PM

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Someone needs to be tried for murder. Like the government. The FDA. Those who denied the transplant. I see you all, I see you. The blackening of roses will send you to the edges of the land/ The emerald tablets of Thoth the Atlantean/ The hands of the mighty Lion of Judah/ Will throw you through the triangular portals of Bermuda/ Exploring the Hologramic aspects of consciousness/

Anonymous Coward
User ID: 368943

United States
5/2/2008 4:32 PM

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just shows you who runs these things,
i find it funny that the students at that
school protest and march all the time.

we all know the people who run these place drink and do god
knows what all the time,
the whole jock /frat party thing , 24/7
lots of rich people who want to feel there better then,
those pooor peolpe.
na if we could see all the number of people who have died over the year cause people won't help
i think we would all be shocked.

Anonymous Coward
User ID: 426418

United States
5/2/2008 4:52 PM

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Yet, remember just a few years back they gave a liver transplant to an illegal mexican girl. She still died soon afterwards. Now, get this, her fucking upright cockroach mexishit family denied letting the girls other useful organs to be harvested so others could live. Got Rope????

Anonymous Coward
User ID: 363893

United States
5/2/2008 6:24 PM

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Let's burn it all up and start over.

Anonymous Coward
User ID: 426818

United States
5/2/2008 6:46 PM

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Can you blame them? The guy basically put a stick in the eye of Big Medicine. Medical Marijuana (and anything else that's natural) wreaks havoc on Big Medicine's entire business model.

12 Monkeys
User ID: 424478

United States
5/2/2008 7:05 PM

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That hits home. I know what this man went through before he died. How tragic, he was to good for this world. Those who did this know exactly what they do and enjoy doing it. Dirty Bastards Dont let em get you down. As crazy dave would say. 100 Million Will Die

Anonymous Coward
User ID: 594535

United States
1/17/2009 12:40 AM

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What would using MJ have to do with a transplant? Every human body on earth produces THC.

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