Pot makes you dance like a chicken.

If that song is stuck in my head all day I will commit a random act of violence.

This is why Canada is way better.

looks like that was filmed here in Portland. yikes.

That is the worst song I have ever heard. For more insight on how fine that lyric is, imagine they're talking about tobacco while listening to it. Fits perfectly.

Holy shit. They actually start rasta-rappin' "pass the dutchie".

From her website: "HannaH*s Field will inspire you to envision flying gypsies".

Uh-huh. Actually, it's causing me to envision shampoo and conditioner.

"The Earth can't hurt."

Yeah, it always amuses me when people tout a product as "all-natural", to which I respond, "Oh, like hemlock and fugu and cobra venom?"

Ugh. This is the second time this video has shown up on The Stranger.

And how about a moratorium on songs about weed? Christ.

my ears! it burnses!

That song almost makes me wish that weed DOES have negative health effects. I can't listen to this song ever again if we're all dead, right? RIGHT?

Did you consider that the doctors might not be making a lifestyle judgment here, and one based instead on science? Marijuana and other cannabinoids are rapidly emerging as significant agonist for steatosis and fibrosis, two of the prime pathological changes seen in liver failure.

Here are citations (all from 2008, you'll note).

Environmental factors as disease accelerators during chronic hepatitis C.
J Hepatol. 2008 Apr;48(4):657-665. Epub 2008 Jan 28.
PMID: 18279998

Daily cannabis use: a novel risk factor of steatosis severity in patients with chronic hepatitis C.
Gastroenterology. 2008 Feb;134(2):432-9. Epub 2007 Nov 28.

Influence of cannabis use on severity of hepatitis C disease.
Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2008 Jan;6(1):69-75.

@11) If that's the science on which the decision was based, then the docs should say that. But they didn't. What they've actually said is that pot is SOOOO addictive that Mr. Garon would keep smoking it (along with a rare but harmful mold on some of it) and his body would reject the transplant.

Regardless of why Mr. Garon's liver is in this state, marijuana is one of the drugs his doctor recommended under state law. Nobody broke the law. Now, for reasons linked to the disease (not the pot), Mr. Garon needs a liver. The UW is denying it based on the implausible scenario that pot is so addictive that he would smoke it at the risk of death. That's absurd and cruel.

Of course the earth can't hurt. Why, look at the opium poppy. What a wonderful and completely harmless plant.

What I see in the only article that is linked and that I could dig up in a quick search is that the "Doctors say drug use is one of the factors they consider in deciding whether a patient is likely to be able to handle the treatment regimen required of people who have transplants." doesn't say it was the only factor or the deciding factor.

Maybe Golob can help, are there national standards that are followed when deciding who gets a liver transplant? If so, I would have to doubt that he is bing denied based on marijuana use. Ask Phil Lesh.

Nevermind. I don't know how I missed the AP article or the giant Slog post above.