Smokin Moose
Fallen Cannabis Warrior & Ex Moderator
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.
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.
