I've never smoked pot and I don't like potheads. Posted on 03/09/2019 12:53:26 PM PST by gaijin
I've never smoked pot and I don't like potheads.
But THIS made even me angry.
Nolan Sousley from Bolivar, Missouri has Stage 4 Pancreatic Cancer --he's on his way to check out for good.
Yet the cops barge in and toss his whole hospital room anyway. And the circumstances didn't prevent the police from humiliating him, either. You'd think he was maybe a dealer in a pimp outfit.
Sousley ad a yuge bong, right? Nope.
He playing some Hendrix and seen rolling some joints, right? Nope.
He has some **pills that contain THC**.
Yeah, for his PAIN.
Cuz they're less addictive, see..?
Abuse of power.
The cops are in an unenviable position. Its not their job to make the laws, but they're sworn to enforce them - even the stupid, destructive ones.
Prior to being listed as a schedule one drug, marijuana was not illegal, and was a common ingredient in hundreds of patent medicines. It's been used as a medicinal herb for thousands of years, for all types of maladies.
The emergence of large multinational drug companies in the twentieth century changed all that. Those companies became powerful enough to exert undue influence on lawmakers and government bureaucracies, and they did. Even though marijuana was effective at treating a great number of ailments, the pharmaceutical industry couldn't patent or profit from it, so they had it demonized, then banned as a drug "with no known medicinal qualities."
In time, people rediscovered the actual medicinal benefits of marijuana, and so began the medical marijuana movement. Today there are millions of people around the world who are using marijuana and its various compounds to restore health when all conventional treatments have failed.
I will admit that I may be a tad biased because of my own health situation. I've got stage four squamous cell carcinoma. The oncologist's treatment plan for me is essentially a death sentence in itself, so my wife and I have opted to go the alternative route, which includes THC.
Big Confession: I quit smoking weed in 1971. I was just eighteen, but I was done with using it recreationally. Since then, I've been a staunch opponent of marijuana use in any form. It took a serious life threatening illness to make me reconsider my position and read up on the medical value of the plant. Since becoming educated on it, my views have shifted 180 degrees.
If that’s what occurred and if there is a lawsuit, the entire hospital could be liable, not to mention the security guard, the security company et al.
What the cop should have done is responded to the call and after determining who's they were dealing with they should have simply told this guy to knock it off if that's what he was doing and don't make us come back here.
In addition the cops and nurse could have told him he could possibly set off smoke alarms in the hospital causing really big issues, evacuations, etc.
Searching this guys stuff and arguing with him in this venue and causing undue stress and other issues, if that's possibly for stage 4 folks, was really stupid for a number of reasons.
As well as people people.
Having unprescribed deugs in the hospital room, plus a drug that is still illegal federally, the hospital would be at risk of fines and possible loss of Medicare funding.
It’s really nice that this is sensationalized without any feed back from the people who really make the rules: Medicare.
My heart goes out to you, your son and your family, sir.
The hospital probably called after seeing it in the room. And, there is no warrant needed if the hospital says it’s ok.
You either think cannabis is the evil weed, or you don’t.
There’s not a lot of gray area here.
It’s dope, or it’s not.
“I think that marijuana (THC) pills are prescribed as an appetite stimulant, not pain killers. Cancer patients often develop anorexia.”
Their main use in a hospital setting is for nausea control. It works.
The entire episode is disgusting. I imagine both the cops and the patient feel bad. Shame on whoever ordered this search. I mean everlasting shame; the kind that follows the bastard to hell forever.
So pissed off at this. This poor guy will be dead soon and the cops do this. Despicable.
it was either a close family member concerned for their loved one or the nursing staff or doctor that called the cops....
if this patient is using his own drugs in his hospital room its against all policy and puts the patients life at risk when he is given other narcs for pain control or nausea...
if he wants to self drug, he should go home and do it....
this was a pathetic whiny video and perhaps even set up by the patient himself.....
so now this guy states he took it in the parking lot, also probably against policy to even go outside the parking lot if you are on high potency hospital administered drugs....
I don't know if some posters even watched the video....
Trust me on this
Cops to do the dirty work can always be found
That’s how rail cars get filled
Could be Simon Bolivar or Simon Bolivar Buckner CSA General
Buckner son was an Army Lt general killed at Okinawa at 58 years of age...I think one of the last general officer killed on the allies side in WWII
he was granted four stars posthumously
Who knows...just guesses
My dad died of pancreatic cancer, and was a pot patient too.
Disgusting.
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