Dying cancer patient in Hays, Kansas uses marijuana to ease pain. His hospital calls the police

[NewYorkExpress]

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/dec/28/police-cannabis-citation-dying-cancer-patient-kansas

Hospital staff in Kansas called the police on a man dying of cancer who was using cannabis products to cope with his symptoms, in an incident that has since sparked outrage and renewed calls to rethink the state’s strict cannabis laws.

The encounter took place in mid-December, when police in the city of Hays say two officers showed up at the cancer patient’s hospital room to issue him a citation for a drug violation. Police also took away a vaping device and cannabis product that hospital staff had already confiscated.


While the police department later dropped the citation, which would have required the cancer patient to appear in court, reports of the incident fueled debate over the continued criminalization of cannabis in Kansas, one of the three US states that has not legalized the product in any context.

[Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bodies for Biden]

Who are the Nazis running this hospital?!

[Kahane's Grave Is A Gender-Neutral Bathroom]

Who are the Nazis running this hospital?!

"Small government" conservatives, most likely.

[DaleCooper]

Legalization of marijuana should be the top issue of all red state Democratic Parties.

[Arizona Iced Tea]

You aren't supposed to vape/smoke in the hospital. They have to enforce the rules.

[DaleCooper]

You aren't supposed to vape/smoke in the hospital. They have to enforce the rules.

He's dying, he should get a free pass.

[Arizona Iced Tea]

You aren't supposed to vape/smoke in the hospital. They have to enforce the rules.

He's dying, he should get a free pass.

Marijuana is illegal in Kansas, but I think the compromise position would be to allow him to have edibles. Smoking/vaping in hospitals is prohibited because it could potentially lead to chemicals and toxins being emitted which is obviously bad in a strictly sanitary environment.

[GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB]

You aren't supposed to vape/smoke in the hospital. They have to enforce the rules.

He's dying, he should get a free pass.

Marijuana is illegal in Kansas, but I think the compromise position would be to allow him to have edibles. Smoking/vaping in hospitals is prohibited because it could potentially lead to chemicals and toxins being emitted which is obviously bad in a strictly sanitary environment.

Also probably because there’s often oxygen tanks around. But I assume the reason the police were called was more because it was weed than because he was smoking though.

[Anti Democrat Democrat Club]

Legalization of marijuana should be the top issue of all red state Democratic Parties.

Unfortunately, even here the establishment is hesitant!

Pappas aside (and lord knows I'm doing my part there), one of the big NHDP rising stars for governor is anti-legalization too. She will not be getting my vote for Governor

[Joe Republic]

In fairness, later the same day, the ticketing officer contacted his supervisor to essentially say 'yeah never mind, let's not do this'.  The sheriff and the DA aren't moving forward with anything.

Kinda stupid to require a terminally ill person to attend a future court date anyway…

[DaleCooper]

Legalization of marijuana should be the top issue of all red state Democratic Parties.

Unfortunately, even here the establishment is hesitant!

Pappas aside (and lord knows I'm doing my part there), one of the big NHDP rising stars for governor is anti-legalization too. She will not be getting my vote for Governor

I voted Legal Marijuana Now in the elections they were running in last month.

[Badger]

You aren't supposed to vape/smoke in the hospital. They have to enforce the rules.

I skimmed through the article and didn't see any mention, which frankly I have expected and would have cut the hospital some slack about, where Hospital personnel had approached him and said hey you can't do that it's a fire code violation, which was apparently the issue. At least based on the article, they skipped straight to calling the police. Absolutely unconscionable Behavior if so.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Who are the Nazis running this hospital?!

"Small government" conservatives, most likely.

Definitely.

[Sir Mohamed]

Who are the Nazis running this hospital?!

They're just "pro life", that's all.

Jokes aside, it's beyond me at least medical marijuana isn't legalized across the board.

[SWE]

In fairness, later the same day, the ticketing officer contacted his supervisor to essentially say 'yeah never mind, let's not do this'.  The sheriff and the DA aren't moving forward with anything.

Kinda stupid to require a terminally ill person to attend a future court date anyway…

When your snitching is so evil that even a 70% Trump county DA and Sheriff are going "bro, c'mon" it's time to step back

[Del Tachi]

Based. 

[BenjiG98]

Based.  

Dying of cancer and having the cops called on you for marijuana use is not based, it's just another cruel reality of social conservatism. You are a child.

[Del Tachi]

Based. 

Dying of cancer and having the cops called on you for marijuana use is not based, it's just another cruel reality of social conservatism. You are a child.

No one is allowed to smoke in a hospital. 

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Party of "personal freedom", folks.

[Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bodies for Biden]

Based. 

Dying of cancer and having the cops called on you for marijuana use is not based, it's just another cruel reality of social conservatism. You are a child.

No one is allowed to smoke in a hospital. 

The issue isn't smoking and you know that. (It would be insulting to assume otherwise.)

[Kahane's Grave Is A Gender-Neutral Bathroom]

Based. 

Dying of cancer and having the cops called on you for marijuana use is not based, it's just another cruel reality of social conservatism. You are a child.

No one is allowed to smoke in a hospital. 

The issue isn't smoking and you know that. (It would be insulting to assume otherwise.)

Equating smoking a burning piece of a substance that causes lung cancer procured using slave labor in Latin America and Africa to medical marijuana is the only way they can justify being their clownish beliefs.

[Dr. MB]

Based. 

Dying of cancer and having the cops called on you for marijuana use is not based, it's just another cruel reality of social conservatism. You are a child.

No one is allowed to smoke in a hospital. 

It was a vape device

[Del Tachi]

Based. 

Dying of cancer and having the cops called on you for marijuana use is not based, it's just another cruel reality of social conservatism. You are a child.

No one is allowed to smoke in a hospital. 

The issue isn't smoking and you know that. (It would be insulting to assume otherwise.)

Equating smoking a burning piece of a substance that causes lung cancer procured using slave labor in Latin America and Africa to medical marijuana is the only way they can justify being their clownish beliefs.

There is no such thing as "medical marijuana" in Kansas, and the whole term is a misnomer.

Cannabis has no FDA-approved uses.  Doctors do not write prescriptions for it.  Pharmacists do not dispense it.  Insurance does not cover it.  It treats no diseases.  Medicalizing dope is one of the biggest lies being sold to the American people, and it's been done 100% for pure profit.   

[Del Tachi]

Based. 

Dying of cancer and having the cops called on you for marijuana use is not based, it's just another cruel reality of social conservatism. You are a child.

No one is allowed to smoke in a hospital. 

It was a vape device

Using a vape device counts as "smoking," and vapes and e-cigs are now explicitly prohibited in most U.S. hospitals.  They create problems for patient safety.     

[DaleCooper]

Based. 

Dying of cancer and having the cops called on you for marijuana use is not based, it's just another cruel reality of social conservatism. You are a child.

No one is allowed to smoke in a hospital. 

The issue isn't smoking and you know that. (It would be insulting to assume otherwise.)

Equating smoking a burning piece of a substance that causes lung cancer procured using slave labor in Latin America and Africa to medical marijuana is the only way they can justify being their clownish beliefs.

There is no such thing as "medical marijuana" in Kansas, and the whole term is a misnomer.

Cannabis has no FDA-approved uses.  Doctors do not write prescriptions for it.  Pharmacists do not dispense it.  Insurance does not cover it.  It treats no diseases.  Medicalizing dope is one of the biggest lies being sold to the American people, and it's been done 100% for pure profit.   

Medical marijuana is used to alleviate symptoms, not treat diseases.