Medical marijuana, and organ transplant lists:
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 has been refused a spot on the transplant list, largely because he has used marijuana, even though it was legally approved for medical reasons.