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Kelowna MMAR Patient’s Wheelchair Seized for Using Meds

By admin | September 5, 2009

A Canadian care home resident with full body paralysis was confined to his bed against his will after his wheelchair was seized by caregivers – all because he smokes medical marijuana to relieve his Multiple Sclerosis.

CHBC news reported yesterday that Nyle Nagy, a Kelowna, British Columbia man who lives at the Brookhaven care home, was forcefully removed from his wheelchair and put in bed for a week after manager Adrien Vaughan objected to his legal use of medical marijuana even though he is a member of the government MMAR program and is legally allowed to use marijuana as medicine.

“She sent two men over here to take my wheelchair and tell me that I’ve got to stay in this chair for seven days, as a punishment”, Nagy told the TV crew.

“To get rid of my pain and my spasms, that’s the only two reasons I smoke it” said Nagy, who has a license from the Canadian government to smoke marijuana.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZEofSOQYJU

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thanks to Jacob @ WhyProhibtion.ca

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