Grant a liver transplant for a dying musician

Grant a liver transplant for dying musician at the University of Washington Medical Center who are withholding surgery for patient’s prior medical marijuana use.

Sign this petition to grant a transplant for a dying patient in need of a liver transplant at the University of Washington Medical Center who are withholding surgery for patient’s prior medical marijuana use.

The University of Washington Medical center is denying a patient, Tim Garon, the right to a liver transplant because he has used medical marijuana to cope with the amount of pain he is in. Garon is dying of hepatitis C and the doctors are denying his human right to have life. The director of this hospital has tough standards so he has been refused a spot on a transplant list. Fluids are continuing to build up in Garon’s abdomen that looks eight months pregnant while his face and arms look skeletal.

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According to most transplant centers, they struggle with the how to deal with people who have used marijuana, said Dr. Robert Sade, director of the Institute of Human Values in Health Care at the Medical University of South Carolina.
“Marijuana, unlike alcohol, has no direct effect on the liver.”

There are other cases like Garon's, they also have to consider - as a dozen states now have medical marijuana laws - if using dope with a doctor's blessing should be held against a dying patient in need of a transplant.