Death panel kills pothead

He needed a lung. Pot is bad for lungs. What's the problem here?

 

Yeah, this is one of those really rare instances where the resource is so precious that any indication that it might be wasted should disqualify from receiving. It seems hard-hearted, but these are organs. Somebody died for it to become available. Somebody who isn't smoking pot is waiting on one, too.

 

We just need a live donor organ transplant business as part of our new healthcare. Monty Python covered this very issue years ago.

 

We loved your photo in Chapter 3 ...

 

I'm ok with that.

 

Unless you need a liver and your name isn't Mantle or Jobs.

 

Or Crosby (David)

 

You keep saying "on drugs." The drug they found was not illegal in his state and is used legally for medicinal purposes in many states.

 

Would a regular cigarette have resulted in the same outcome?

 

Yes.

 

That's fine. It's also specifically indicated as a drug that gets you banned from receiving a transplant. They don't give livers to alcoholics, either.*

*Mantle exception noted

Why don't we envision this story from the point of view of the family that did get the lung. And then play it out where they've been sitting there for however many months or years doing nothing but praying, and someone jumps the line and their son dies even though the recipient was in violation of one of the highest-priority rules in the program.

Cool deal then?

 

"We do not transplant organs in patients with active alcohol, tobacco or illicit drug use or dependencies until these issues are addressed, as these substances are contraindicated for a transplant."