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To: mugs99
"It assumes marijuana smoke caused the problem but presents no lab report confirming that assumption."

"Cultures of the marijuana revealed Aspergillus fumigatus with morphology and growth characteristics identical to the organism grown from open lung biopsy specimen."

There's your proof. Exactly what you asked for. Medical marijuana can kill immunosuppressed patients.

62 posted on 06/26/2006 4:29:23 PM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: robertpaulsen
There's your proof. Exactly what you asked for. Medical marijuana can kill immunosuppressed patients.

Excuse me, but he marijuana did not kill the patient. The bacteria, which could have been eliminated, did. This is a feeble argument, based on the logical fallacy of the excluded middle. Pretty good for a drug warrior, though.

65 posted on 06/26/2006 4:36:56 PM PDT by donh (U)
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To: robertpaulsen
There's your proof. Exactly what you asked for. Medical marijuana can kill immunosuppressed patients.

That's not proof of anything. I could just as easily say cultures of the broccoli revealed Aspergillus fumigatus with morphology and growth characteristics identical to the organism grown from open lung biopsy specimen. Aspergillus fumigatus can be cultured from any plant to get the same results...Your smoke is blowing in the wind.
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76 posted on 06/26/2006 5:26:38 PM PDT by mugs99 (Don't take life too seriously, you won't get out alive.)
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To: robertpaulsen
"Cultures of the marijuana revealed Aspergillus fumigatus with morphology and growth characteristics identical to the organism grown from open lung biopsy specimen."

There's your proof. Exactly what you asked for. Medical marijuana can kill immunosuppressed patients.

From the Mayo clinic:

http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.com/inside.asp?AID=522&UID=6388

The use of pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators continues to increase for the management of cardiac dysrhythmias and, more recently, heart failure. Long-term complications associated with their use include infection, lead failure, and spurious shocks. Although the risk of infection with intracardiac devices is well known, the clinical presentation of this complication can be insidious, delayed in onset, and difficult to diagnose. We report a case of Aspergillus fumigatus infection of an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator with right-sided endocarditis in a 55-year-old man. The infection presented as persistent pulmonary infiltrates (due to recurrent septic pulmonary embolism) and anemia more than 2 years after implantation of the device. Clinicians should be aware of the variable manifestations resulting from infection of intracardiac devices.

There you go, obvious proof that pacemakers can kill people, and therefore, should be outlawed.

96 posted on 06/27/2006 9:38:01 AM PDT by donh (U)
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