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NewsFlash420
12-04-2011, 04:33 AM
Why is it that when an individual makes a simple mistake legally his/her entire world gets tipped upside down, but government and corporations can get away with gross criminal actions? One man gets busted for a marijuana roach, while a hospital can just decide to murder a man. Sixty-three year-old Norman Smith was diagnosed with inoperable liver cancer in 2009, with limited options Smith went to the highly acclaimed Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. This decision proved to be a great threat to his life.

Seeking treatment and options, Smith was facing the long road of grueling chemotherapy and prescription treatments. His oncologist (at Cedars-Sinai), Dr. Steven Miles, prescribed him medical marijuana to ease the effects of the chemotherapy and pain from an unrelated back injury. Then In 2010, Smith became eligible for a liver transplant restoring some hope to his fatal situation. But tragically Smith was removed from the transplant list after testing positive for marijuana, the very prescription that was given to him by one of the doctors at the same hospital.

This fatal discrimination against Smith isn't an isolated incident, Americans for Safe Access (ASA) reports that they have received numerous letters nationwide from medical marijuana approved states, from patients sharing their stories of transplant denials due to their medical marijuana use.

Read More... (http://www.examiner.com/cannabis-culture-in-phoenix/transplant-denied-to-medical-cannabis-patient)

WilliamC
12-04-2011, 06:42 AM
The people issuing these denials should be executed and their organs made available to potential transplant receipients.

asurfaholic
12-04-2011, 07:28 AM
The people issuing these denials should be executed and their organs made available to potential transplant receipients.
I wouldnt wish those filthy organs on nobody....

Just executed...

Emptyeternity
12-04-2011, 08:07 AM
Its hard to see how someone who wasn't granted that just doesn't go and take the bureacratics down with him.

WilliamC
12-04-2011, 08:32 AM
Its hard to see how someone who wasn't granted that just doesn't go and take the bureacratics down with him.

Bureaucrats are low priority.