DEA Kills 50 year-old Lupus Patient (at least indirectly)

When will this nonsense end? As reported in the Missoulian:

Robin Prosser, a Missoula woman who struggled for a quarter century to
live with the pain of an immunosuppressive disorder, tried years ago to
kill herself. Last week, she tried again. This time, she succeeded.

After
her earlier attempt failed, Prosser wound up in even more trouble after
investigating police found marijuana in her home. She used the
marijuana to help cope with pain.

The ruling came to haunt Prosser in late March, when
DEA agents seized less than a half ounce of marijuana sent to her by
her registered caregiver in Flathead County.

"At the time, the
DEA special agent in charge of the Rocky Mountain Field Division said
federal agents were “protecting people from their own state laws” by
seizing such shipments..." (emphasis added)

Without the relief that marijuana delivered to her, Robin Prosser killed herself at home last week. She was 50.

Prosser
suffered from an autoimmune disease that gave her allergic and
dangerous reactions to most pharmaceutical painkillers. So she turned
to marijuana. When that was no longer available she had no where else
to turn.

“She just said she couldn't take it all anymore,” Byard said.

In
her guest opinion, Prosser wrote that: “I'm 50 years old, low-income
and sick. I spend most days in my apartment in bed, with no air
conditioning, unable to go outside because I can't tolerate the sun.”

Beset
by financial problems, troubled by depression, unable to find a
reliable source of pain relief, she took her own life three months
after the piece was published.

“Give me liberty or give me
death,” she wrote in July. “Maybe the next campaign ought to be for
assisted-suicide laws in our state. If they will not allow me to live
in peace, and a little less pain, would they help me to die, humanely?”

Like the leftist maxim states (though for the wrong reasons), if you aren't outraged, you aren't paying attention.

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