Christmastime hospital-room raid busts dying man for using marijuana extract

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44. Long Beach Memorial Medical Center here in Southern California confiscated my husband's pot.

This was about 10 years ago, he had a medical marijuana license. He was using pot for neck and back pain. California became the first state to allow medicinal cannabis use in 1996. Pot is now legal in California for both medicinal and adult (recreational) use in 2016. My husband was in the hospital for extreme chest pain that nobody in the hospital could diagnose. He didn't want to go on opioid painkillers as he lay there in agony while they put him through dozens of tests. Well, as soon as he lit up his pipe, the nurses took all his pot, including the antique silver snuffbox he kept his pot in, and his pipe. I guess we should be thankful they didn't call the cops on him.

Apparently patients are not allowed to have pot in the hospital, nor any other drug/medication not prescribed by the hospital.

They never did figure out what was wrong with him. His chest pain eventually stopped on its own the next day and they discharged him, without his pot and pipe, although they did give him his snuffbox back after he demanded they return it.