Medical marijuana patients face transplant hurdles (AP)

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Medical marijuana patients face transplant hurdles
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<p>You are not allowed to view links. Register or LoginAP - 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. His liver, ravaged by hepatitis C, is failing. Without a new one, his doctors tell him, he will be dead in days. But Garon's been refused a spot on the transplant list, largely because he has used marijuana, even though it was legally approved for medical reasons.</p><br clear="all"/>


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