Medical Marijuana News O' Teh Day

I haven't heard a story like this before. Both Swedish and UW turned him down because he smoked for pain, which is legal in Washington state. I'd like to see a reporter go a little farther with this story, was their federal funding in jeopardy if they okayed the liver transplant?
In my experience, it's the feds who mess with this stuff, but maybe the medical committees are just jerks.
In any case, he died.

SEATTLE -- A musician who was denied a liver transplant because he used marijuana with medical approval under Washington state law to ease the symptoms of advanced hepatitis C died Thursday.

The death of Timothy Garon, 56, at Bailey-Boushay House, an intensive care nursing center was confirmed to The Associated Press by his lawyer, Douglas Hiatt, and Alisha Mark, a spokeswoman for Virginia Mason Medical Center, which operates Bailey-Boushay.

Dr. Brad Roter, the physician who authorized Garon to smoke pot to alleviate for nausea and abdominal pain and to stimulate his appetite, said he did not know it would be such a hurdle if Garon were to need a transplant.