{"id":2605,"date":"2008-05-02T13:07:12","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T18:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/?p=2605"},"modified":"2008-05-02T13:07:16","modified_gmt":"2008-05-02T18:07:16","slug":"the-associated-press-medical-marijuana-user-who-was-denied-liver-transplant-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2008\/05\/the-associated-press-medical-marijuana-user-who-was-denied-liver-transplant-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"The Associated Press: Medical marijuana user who was denied liver transplant dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5iiNTqWskznUXcmUi8fblN69gxNNAD90DG7400\" >The Associated Press: Medical marijuana user who was denied liver transplant dies<\/a>: &#8220;Go to Google News<br \/>\nMedical marijuana user who was denied liver transplant dies<br \/>\n6 hours ago<br \/>\nSEATTLE (AP) \u2014 A man who was denied a liver transplant because he used marijuana with medical approval to ease the symptoms of hepatitis C has died.<br \/>\nTimothy 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.<br \/>\nHis death came a week after his doctor told him a University of Washington Medical Center committee had again denied him a spot on the liver transplant list because of his use of marijuana, although it was authorized under Washington state law.<br \/>\nThe case highlights an ethical consideration for those allocating organs for transplant: whether using dope with a doctor&#8217;s blessing should be held against a dying patient in need of a transplant.<br \/>\nThe Virginia-based United Network for Organ Sharing, which oversees the nation&#8217;s transplant system&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"\"><\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Currently playing in iTunes: <i>Track 05<\/i> by Pere Ubu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press: Medical marijuana user who was denied liver transplant dies: &#8220;Go to Google News Medical marijuana user who was denied liver transplant dies 6 hours ago SEATTLE (AP) \u2014 A man who was denied a liver transplant because he used marijuana with medical approval to ease the symptoms of hepatitis C has died. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2008\/05\/the-associated-press-medical-marijuana-user-who-was-denied-liver-transplant-dies\/\"  class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Associated Press: Medical marijuana user who was denied liver transplant dies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-G1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}