[420 Girl]

The Huffington Post has a very interesting article that says that medical marijuana users in the 14 states that currently allow the use of the otherwise illegal substance to treat medical conditions — presumably including Michigan — are routinely being denied the right to get organ transplants at hospitals around the country.

For in the now fourteen states that allow legal medicinal use of cannabis, a registered patient in need of a life-saving organ transplant will be disqualified for “abuse of illicit substances.”…

All across America, hospitals are booting patients off of organ transplant lists because of their use of cannabis. Being a legal user of cannabis for medicinal purposes in the now fourteen states that recognize that right is of no help; even legal medical marijuana patients are essentially given a death sentence by hospital and insurance bureaucracies for their use of a safe, non-toxic herbal remedy.

This could be a particularly important issue in Michigan because the University of Michigan Hospital is one of the nation’s premiere transplant centers, performing hundreds of organ transplants every year.


http://www.420magazine.com/forums/in...ansplants.html