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Home 🌿 Medical Cannabis News 🌿 New bill looks to give medical marijuana users equal transplant rights 🌿New bill looks to give medical marijuana users equal transplant rights
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KTVU) -- Nine years after medical marijuana became legal in California, the state lawmakers on April 30th voted on a bill that would give medical cannabis users the same right to get an organ transplant as anyone else.
It would remove what some call prejudice against medical marijuana that already led some users to die because hospitals removed them from the transplant lists.
That is what happened to 56-year-old Richard Hawthorne. He had viral hepatitis and like four thousand people in the Bay Area, desperately needs a liver transplant.
Just playing with his granddaughter exhausts him.
“Depression is always here. I am tired of not being able to go out and do anything. I am pretty much confined to the house” Hawthorne said.
Hawthorne has tried many alternatives for help with the pain and nausea to no avail.
“The nausea's pretty much almost full time. I have taken...
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