A terminally-ill Kansas man’s hospital room was raided by cops as a result of he used a weed vape and THC paste to ease the signs of the most cancers that can kill him inside weeks.

Greg Bertz, 69, was focused by police in Hays Medical Middle on December 23. He was after officers discovered marijuana merchandise inside his room, and ordered to look in court docket on January 2 – regardless of being so sick he can not get off the bed and even transfer. 

Kansas is one among solely three US states the place medical marijuana remains to be unlawful. Bertz instructed the Kansas Metropolis Star his physician had instructed him to make use of no matter was needed to alleviate his ache, together with merchandise containing THC – the lively ingredient in hashish. 

However one other member of workers is believed to have snitched on Bertz and sparked the following raid.  

Don Scheibler is the Chief of Police for town of Hays

Medicinal hashish is illegitimate Kansas, regardless of 68 p.c of state residents help state-sanctioned medical marijuana entry, in accordance with the Nationwide Group for the Reform of Marijauana Legal guidelines (NORML). Idaho and Nebraska additionally ban the follow.

Bretz is within the last phases of terminal, inoperable most cancers and instructed The Wichita Eagle that he most frequently lies ‘flat on his again’ in his hospital mattress and might’t get up with out being assisted. 

He is been vaping, in addition to consuming THC paste with bread, to alleviate signs of his situation since being hospitalized roughly three weeks in the past. 

The 69-year-old claims a physician instructed him to decide on whichever relievers he desires to make him really feel higher, as there’s nothing that may be medically executed to remedy him or decelerate the most cancers.   

Finally, a hospital employee caught him utilizing the vape and instructed on him. Law enforcement officials have been then dispatched and three of them got here to his room.

That is when cops instructed Bertz that his vaping machine may doubtlessly be a hearth hazard, as a result of presence of oxygen within the room.

In lots of vaping units, puffing prompts the battery-powered heating machine, which vaporizes the liquid within the cartridge or reservoir for inhalation. 

Three law enforcement officials confirmed up at Hays Medical Middle to grab Bertz’s vape and THC paste

Bertz was cited for drug posession and is ready to look in court docket after the brand new 12 months on January 2

During the last 12 months, there have been defects, which have resulted in some sufferers burning themselves after inhaling nicotine whereas respiration by a nasal tube. 

Nonetheless, Bretz clarified that he’s not in want for supplemental oxygen, which means there isn’t any danger of an oxygen tank hearth. 

He added that the three cops have been insistent on taking away his THC paste, and that he argued in opposition to the transfer, on account of his vaping liquid barely containing any hint of THC, if any in any respect.

Bertz may also try and contact the prosecutor and see if his court docket look may be pushed again. 

Medicinal marijuana is authorized in 47 different states and the District of Columbia. 

There at the moment are 21 states which have approved the leisure and medical use of hashish, together with Missouri and Maryland, after laws handed over midterm elections. 

Professional-cannabis advocates in Kansas consider the state’s conservative lawmakers will ultimately bow to strain to supply authorized medical weed.

However additionally they consider the laws shall be designed to make the drug too costly or sophisticated to acquire, with anti-cannabis politicians accused of nonetheless seeing anybody who makes use of the drug as a hippy-reefer kind.