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Title: Grandma With Terminal Cancer Jailed for LEGAL THC in Her Blood, Forced to Miss Chemo
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Free Thought Project/KAKE-TV, Wichita
URL Source: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/gr ... thc-blood/#9zJ6fVzD7FvSyZHs.99
Published: May 4, 2017
Author: Matt Agorist
Post Date: 2017-05-05 06:19:02 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 3307
Comments: 11
Wichita, KS — Angela Kastner has colorectal cancer and is currently undergoing chemotherapy to treat it. However, because the state is hell bent on targeting people for putting THC in their bodies, Kastner is missing her much needed chemo treatment after she was locked in a cage by Sedgwick County deputies. Apparently, these cops felt that throwing the grandmother with terminal cancer in a state-sponsored jail cell would somehow serve society. After all, she did have THC, the dangerous psychoactive component of cannabis, in her system. However, had these cops bothered to read any research on the subject, they should’ve let her go on her way with an apology. But that’s not what happened. Instead, police are taught to fear THC. They are fed bogus stats claiming that it is a gateway drug. They also dangerously believe that having THC in your blood somehow means you are impaired. And, especially in Kansas, cops love to kidnap, cage, or even kill you over this highly beneficial plant. To show just how criminally uninformed the deputies were who arrested and jailed Mrs. Kastner, she hadn’t broken any law — even in Kansas — as she was prescribed the FDA-approved and entirely legal, synthetic version of THC. “I had … Marinol in my system that the doctors in Oklahoma gave me to fight cancer. I’ve been fighting cancer 5 years,” Kastner said. That’s right. Kastner is taking Marinol to fend off nausea and help her have an appetite, just like millions of other cancer patients across the country. According to her pharmacist, as KAKE reports, the amount of THC in her blood is not enough to make anyone high. In fact, according to the drug’s own insert on its safety, they only recommend not driving if you feel confused, dizzy, or drowsy. Aside from the drug Kastner has been taking for 5 years, not causing impairment, there is no scientific evidence that THC in the blood stream equates to impaired driving. As the Free Thought Project previously reported, no scientific basis exists to legitimize current THC testing for impaired driving. According to a study from auto club giant AAA’s safety foundation, a blood test threshold for THC — the chemical component of cannabis that makes people ‘high’ — is simply not scientifically possible. As the study notes, determining actual impairment from THC consumption is quite different than for alcohol. Tolerance for the chemical would mean though a regular cannabis user might have high blood levels of THC, they are perfectly safe behind the wheel — while a relatively low THC blood level could be found in someone unfit to drive. Because Kastner was a regular user of Marinol she was, more likely than not, entirely fit to drive — even if she’d just taken it. However, none of this matters to those tasked with upholding the law. And, if the law says we have to throw grandmas in cages for having their legally prescribed medicine in their bloodstream, then, by golly, we are going to do just that. “I miss my chemo tomorrow and I miss my doctor’s appointment tomorrow,” said Kastner, whose doctor is rightfully furious. Because she’s missing the chemo treatment, her doctor says she’ll have to restart her entire regimen. “She’s all I’ve got,” Kastner’s niece, Crystal Fleming said to KAKE. “My dad passed away and she’s all I’ve got.” As for Kastner, she says she wants people to know her story so no one else has to go through her pain. “I feel sorry for the next cancer patient who has to go through anything I have had to go through. They shouldn’t have to do this at the end of their life.”
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
Maybe GOD is using the cops to save her life.
She doesn't need chemo. She should smoke marijuana. That cures cancer.
She was charged with DUI, meaning her driving drew the attention of the cops. It makes no difference what prescribed legal drug she had in her system. If it causes impaired driving, it's a DUI. Marinol is 100% THC. It will get you as high as smoking marijuana.
Liar. Kastner is taking Marinol to fend off nausea and help her have an appetite, just like millions of other cancer patients across the country. According to her pharmacist, as KAKE reports, the amount of THC in her blood is not enough to make anyone high. In fact, according to the drug’s own insert on its safety, they only recommend not driving if you feel confused, dizzy, or drowsy. *** I thought paulsen continuously touted Marinol as a legal alternative to marijuana? Fucking hypocrite. Did her pharmacist draw the blood? Does he know the amount it takes to make her high? He may mean that IF she takes the prescribed dose it SHOULDN'T make her high, but there's nothing to stop her from taking a larger dose. Moot point. She was driving erratically and charged with a DUI. Obviously it had an effect on her despite her pharmacist's claim.
Maybe GOD is using the cops to save her life. That is a excellent post! And maybe GOD is also using the cops to save the life of another person she may collide with.
OMG, say it ain’t so….that cannabis isn’t totally curing her cancer and she still has to undergo chemo treatments.
Bullshit! She was arrested for driving erattically….that’s the law she broke.
While I agree with you about chemo, I know little to nothing about pot and it's help for cancer, but this I do know. I have been suing Apricots, apricot kernels, my own saliva and prayer and it is not over 29 months with no colon cancer. So while I would urge any with cancer to use Apricots, apricot kernels , saliva and prayer, I would not suggest pot.
we seem to agree on chemo.
Hey! Me too! And I found that it keeps the elephants out of my yard.
Kastner is missing her much needed chemo treatment
#2. To: BobCeleste (#1)
"Kastner is missing her much needed chemo treatment"
#3. To: Deckard (#0)
#4. To: misterwhite (#3)
Marinol is 100% THC. It will get you as high as smoking marijuana.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#5. To: Deckard (#4)
"According to her pharmacist, as KAKE reports, the amount of THC in her blood is not enough to make anyone high."
#6. To: BobCeleste (#1)
Kastner is missing her much needed chemo treatment
#7. To: Deckard (#0)
… missing her much needed chemo treatment after she was locked in a cage by Sedgwick County deputies.
#8. To: Deckard (#0)
To show just how criminally uninformed the deputies were who arrested and jailed Mrs. Kastner, she hadn’t broken any law
#9. To: misterwhite (#2)
She doesn't need chemo. She should smoke marijuana. That cures cancer.
#10. To: Gatlin (#6)
#11. To: BobCeleste (#9)
"I have been suing Apricots, apricot kernels, my own saliva and prayer and it is not over 29 months with no colon cancer."
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