Instead of taking this obviously biased article as the Gospel truth (written by someone named "Michael Moore", probably not that Michael Moore, but certainly someone who shares Fatso's journalistic objectivity), you may want to read a little deeper into the "reportage". For example, the article says that "Prosser suffered from an autoimmune disease that gave her allergic and dangerous reactions to most pharmaceutical painkillers". It also states that Prosser had located an alternate source for her medical weed, "but it didn't go well". It sounds to me that, the journalist's bias notwithstanding ("So she turned to marijuana. When that was no longer available she had no where else to turn".), MS Prosser may well have had other options for pain relief, but preferred her pot to other medications that would relief her pain, but would not give her that nice buzz that would have relieved the depression that probably was the actual cause of her suicide.
Sadly, I have personal knowledge. :-( ...but my reaction to the loss of Ms. Prosser is the same as it was with my friend: I'm happy for her that she succeeded and escaped her pain. As much as it hurts to lose someone, I find it far more sick to make a person stick around and endure a living hell just for own pleasure or to assuage our guilt of arbitrarily sentencing them to passively endure a treatable condition.
Exactly my thoughts. Some questions came to mind: Why is the disease not named? How much of her disease was drug induced paranoia? What was the law enforcement side of this story?....etc.
Namely the ability to accurately diagnose a patient you've never met, let alone examined.
See now most Doctors wouldn't dare do something like that. They'd get their asses sued off and be tossed from the medical profession for gross malpractice.
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