Front page of CNN.com: "Jackson doc sings from jail"

[stevenleser]

5. There are several drugs that, if prescribed and had caused the death, I would have been less harsh

but propofol is not one of them. This is a drug that is only supposed to be used when airway management is in place and facilities are there for your vitals to be electronically monitored and a team of people to revive you if necessary.

Several anesthesiologists have accidentally killed themselves when recreationally using propofol. You need to understand what that means. People who have been through medical school, then went through the specialization to understand how all of these anesthesia's work and possible dangers, etc., still managed to kill themselves with this drug. This isn't something you mess around with at all and Dr. Murray would have known all of those things.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propofol#Contraindications_and_interactions