Medical marijuana patients face transplant hurdles

SEATTLE - Timothy Garon's face and arms are hauntingly skeletal, but the fluid building up in his abdomen makes the 56-year-old musician look eight months pregnant.

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I've never had a transplant nor do I know anything about it but what I wonder is this...

I'm sure a regular transplant patient would be given a bucket of vicodin or other pain killers that would go directly to the liver and that would be ok.



[edit on 26-4-2008 by gauncents]