Terminally Ill Kansas Patient Raided to Seize Vape used for PainPosted by On


Different states have very different policies about recreational and medicinal marijuana—just weeks before New Yorkers lined up outside the state’s first recreational pot dispensary, police raided the hospital room of a terminally ill Kansas man because he was using a THC vape to treat symptoms of his cancer. 

Greg Bretz was cited on Dec. 16 at Hays Medical Center in Hays, Kansas, after a hospital worker found him vaping marijuana, local media outlets reported this week. Bretz said he had been vaping and eating THC paste with bread to treat symptoms of his illness. Read on to find out what happened that day, what the police chief has to say about it, and what’s next. 

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Bretz had been hospitalized in the final stages of terminal, inoperable cancer about three weeks ago. He most often lies “flat on his back” in his hospital bed and can’t stand up without being assisted. The 69-year-old told the Kansas City Star that a doctor advised him to do whatever he wanted if it made him feel better—including products containing THC, the active ingredient in cannabis—because no medical treatment is available to him beyond hospice care. 

“The chemo hadn’t been too kind to him, so he’s been exploring some other options, and it seemed to be helping him out a little bit, but that all went south when he got turned in by one of the hospital staff,” Lee…

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