Robin Prosser was a former concert pianist and systems analyst from Montana who suffered from an immunosuppressive disease similar to lupus for over 20 years. The disease stiffened her muscles, limited her mobility, and caused chronic pain, heart trouble, nausea, and migraines. It also made her allergic to most pharmaceutical painkillers, and the ones she [...]

A 56-year-old man in Washington, suffering from Hepatitis C, died Thursday because he couldn’t get a liver transplant. The University of Washington Medical Center denied the man, Timothy Garon, potentially life-saving surgery based on the fact that he uses medical marijuana under his doctor’s supervision (and in accordance with state law.)
UWMC said it would reconsider [...]