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  The article says they took away his vape pen because of the fire itself in a high oxygen environment.
context: I for one am glad that tax dollars are funding police to go after dangerous hardened criminals, like checks paper a terminal ill cancer patient vaping weed.
  /s >
  
  Yah, he better show to that court date too, death isn’t an excuse to miss it >
  
  He should have been in an elementary school. The cops would have just waited at the door for backup and never went in. >
  
  Goddammit you’re not wrong. >
  
  2 things here:  
  Hospitals never want outside meds interfering with their treatment plans (and probably profits).
  In a heavily oxygenated room, fire becomes a greater risk, but as a caregiver, the inevitable explosions from oxygen portrayed in movies are just not at all common.  I can see why they took the vape as combustible devices are not permitted in hospitals (and we do have plenty of examples of them exploding).
  
  Bretz was cited for drug possession and is set to appear in court after the new year on January 2nd, 2023.
  
  This is where shit gets really stupid.  What are they going to do, sentence him to prison while he's dying? >
  
  I feel like the cops probably had to give a citation because he was breaking the law? I hope they weren’t all happy to do it. 
  The person that called the cops should be ashamed of themselves if they did so without first trying to reason with the patient >
  
  I blame the cops more than the hospital worker.
  They're under state health and hospital regs and those often stipulate they call the police over anything.  
  Cops don't have to cite people.  For plenty of cases, they'll just take the small stash and destroy it, and I think that's what should've been done here. >
  
  See I thought they had to cite if they found something illegal but if they don’t then yeah, they are scum >
  
  I'd worry about the cops being worried about liability but since they basically have to be a serial killer to be held accountable (off the clock), I can't give them the benefit of the doubt here. >
  
  I mean, he's vaping in the hospital. I'd wager he was asked to stop doing it, and refused. I seriously doubt the cops were the first step here.  
  He should have asked to be discharged and just spent his final days vaping at his house. >
  
  True. There are next to no rules on Hospice, plus better meds than THC. >
  
  Yep, Hospice nurses DGAF except that you're comfortable while you're passing. 
  One of my grandmothers "failed" hospice twice (they thought she was dying, put her on hospice but she got better). They just offered her whatever she wanted.
  Shit tons of morphine? Go for it. Kids brought over some edibles? Eat as many as you want! >
  
  And they will be reincarnated as cockroaches in the next life.
  Justice will be served, eventually. >
  
  If only.