PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon Health & Science University Hospital in Portland has eased restrictions on marijuana use among people seeking organ transplants.

The state’s largest organ transplant program had required six months of negative drug tests before a patient could go on the waiting list for a liver transplant.

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