Off-topic: The War on the ill :(

"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's been refused a spot on the transplant list, largely because he has used marijuana, even though it was legally approved for medical reasons."
-- Associated Press, April 26, 2008 (full article at http://www.mpp.org/ne...)

If you go to the MPP page, there is a petition for changing the law.

- Runyan