A hospital is a private business and they have the right to boot you if they please. She came to them to get treated, they didn't go to her. Dying or not, you should respect other people's houses and their rules.
Marijuana and Cannabis News
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| ABC 7 News |
| Terminal patient Angel Raich was thrown out of UCSF Hospital last night for vaporizing medical marijuana |
Angel McClary Raich, who said she believes she has about a year to live, was at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Hospital to receive a brain scan, reports the Oakland Tribune. A resident of Oakland, Raich suffers constant severe pain, according to her website.
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| ABC 7 News |
Raich, an outspoken advocate for medical marijuana, said that police and security guards were called on her and she was taken out of the hospital after she used the vaporizer, according to KGO.
"UCSF is a smoke-free campus and this includes medical marijuana ... even a vaporized form of medical marijuana releases particles in the air that are damaging to the lung," read a prepared statement released by UCSF on Monday night. "Any particles from vapor and odor could have an impact on other patients and hospital employees."
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one word..... EATIBLE
you dont have the right to put vapor in the air for others to inhale... just as smoker doesnt have the right to put smoke in the air for others to inhale......you making up the mind of the person who is breathing in you exhale
As a mmj user/patient I would never think of using a vap or smoking in any building other than my own. If you have to smoke then you can step outside and vap. There are so many other forms to use your meds...i.e. Hash oil, drinks, edibles the list goes on.I feel bad for her but it's just common sense. I don't even vap at the mall...I step outside and find someplace to take my meds. Sorry she is extremely sick and the hospital could have been more sympathetic since it was okay at first for her to carry it with her. Could've been handled differently.
Normally I would be on her side, but rules are rules. Ive seen first hand that a vap does more that vap, it creates smoke at a certain temp. Why couldn't she just walk outside and burn? I feel badly for her, and am very sympathetic to her condition, but if she has working legs, there was no reason for her to smoke weed inside a hospital. They might have over reacted, but she know what she was doing, and it would not surprise me if it was all a stunt to make headlines. Shes an adult, and she knew the rules. As bad as all of this is, she is an adult, who knew the rules, and didn't take the extra measure, like going outside for a minute, to follow them.
True. I think sometimes as a passionate marijuana activist I tend to put my emotions before my logic. But everything you said makes perfect logical sense. However, kicking her OUT of the hospital is kinda messed up. Also I think (don't quote me on this) that a lot of times the entire grounds of hospitals are smoke free. So she may have had to walk across the street, and she may not have wanted to miss the doctor. But that's just me playing devil's advocate. But again I do agree with you, her disposition in the video did tend to lean towards a little *too* hostile. You may be right, it may have been for headlines. We don't know how she reacted either, she may have been a complete and total bitch to people. Or sweet as pie. But it is rather strange that they allowed it before. That would be something that would personally irritate me. Its like having one parent tell you yes and the other tell you no. Perhaps the physician had a personal hatred of medical marijuana and wanted to be a dick. Or maybe she was flaunting it being confrontational. We don't know either way. Your points are all very valid though. I just personally think kicking her out of a hospital is a bit inhumane. Take away her vaporizer or maybe tell her to stop using it and if she doesn't call the police and give her a citation. But to remove a dying patient from the hospital is just cruel.
Reefer Madness is a curable disease. What Angel has can be helped by curing Reefer Madness. How inhumane to allow someone to suffer because they use a plant that has never killed anyone but Reefer Madness has.
wrong wrong wrong i'm tired of these fu$%ing lies they keep telling people! there's absolutely NO harm and NO buzz to be had from 2nd hand cannabis smoke, whether it's vaped or smoked regularly. there's studies that show this. l l l l look it up
****THE SCIENTIFIC DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SMOKE AND VAPORS****
What part don't you comprehend?
*sigh* you don't even understand how a vaporizer works. do your own research. I don't get paid to teach internet trolls.
Vaporization=no combustion. Smoke=combustion. The vaporization process used to obtain the effects of thc without combustion is called sublimation, when a solid matter skips the liquid phase and becomes gas. Someone should have paid attention in chemistry.
Marijuana has been proven to help lung function. It's not damaging at all. You would think that being one of the top 10 of hospitals nationwide they would know this.
"Marijuana has been proven to help lung function. It's not damaging at all."
LOL! ... so then, perhaps they should mandate that ALL patients inhale marijuana, eh ?
Marijauna smoke has been proven to not be harmful, let alone vaporizing which is not smoke, it is before smoke and combustion occurs.
epilepsy is a terrible disease. i hope this lady can get some compassion out of the hospital, so future patients dont get such a rough time. kinda sucks to sue a hospital tho.
also, dont get brain scans at hospitals, they overcharge like a motherfucker!
So a rapist can come in after brutally sexually assaulting someone and you (by law) must treat their wounds that they got from the person they were raping trying to fight back. Yet this woman who has terminal brain cancer and less than a year to live, you have the right to refuse service to for using her state legal medication? Why not kick out everyone who uses a humidifier? Or every patient who uses an asthma inhaler. Hey that shit releases just as many particles into the air. If this was over anything but medical marijuana, the entire world would stop and freak out. (Like this whole Kony thing. If people put this much effort into legalization as they did with finding him, it would be legal next month!) But once you involve MMJ, she gets written off by the media as 'just another stoner looking for her fix.' Note the language they used. 'Stash', not 'medicine'. A stash is something you keep hidden. Medicine is something you are prescribed and use appropriately. Its words like that I feel subconsciously implant negative connotation on medical marijuana.
So a rapist can come in after brutally sexually assaulting someone and you (by law) must treat their wounds that they got from the person they were raping trying to fight back. Yet this woman who has terminal brain cancer and less than a year to live, you have the right to refuse service to for using her state legal medication?
According to Donkey_Hotay this is what makes America the greatest country on earth
What about fecal gasses that come from someone farting?
I knew someone who had their colon pierced during an operation and they almost died to the toxic nature of our own fecal matter.
I say, anyone that farts in a hospital should be arrested! It could be very dangerous to others.
This is insanity. If they allowed her in with the vaporizer to begin with,why cause all of this hours later? Is someone worried about some sort of funding?
I surely can sympathize with this lady. I can understand the hospital's position as well. It would be easier to accept, if she were to have been smoking a joint, there being flammable gases on hand.... My prayers to this unfortunate lady...
Oh and keep your hateful prayers for the "unfortunate lady" and remember Galatians 6:7 when you secretly spread malice.
Flammable gases in hospitals are kept in secure areas. If she'd vaporized there before WITH permission of the hospital then obviously that wasn't the primary issue. I think she has a case for claim for standard of care because their treatment led to a seizure. We need to get these super conservatives the hell out of SF now.
You know you're a second class citizen when you... ________________________________________.
Just fill in the blanks if you're a MMJ patient. This is another case of discrimination that we go through every day. I wonder if they allow vaporization of other meds?
"even a vaporized form of medical marijuana releases particles in the air that are damaging to the lung,"....... Really? Vaporized marijuana causes damage to the lungs? Lol what a crock.
If a hospital refuses to treat a patient with money....wouldn't that be against the Hypocritical Oath?
