I have been skimming through this thread and have a couple of questions. I apologize if this has been dealt with earlier. If anyone could clarify, I would appreciate it.
1. Do we have any witnesses besides Murray who know for sure that Michael actually asked Conrad Murray to administer the cocktail of drugs, including propofol, on the day he died?
2. Are their other witnesses besides Chopra, Nurse Lee and Murray who say Michael ever asked for or took propofol?
3.Is their anyone besides Murray, who has testified that Michael was dependent on propofol in the last few weeks of his life?
Janet didn't know about the propofol. Most of the evidence for his supposed dependency in the last few weeks before his death comes from Murray. I don't believe anything Murray says as I am sure he is trying to save his own butt and he obviously has questionable ethics. It is well known fact that Michael suffered from insomnia, but if we eliminate everything Murray says, what do we actually know about Michael using propofol?
To the first question, no there is no one beside Murray that said he asked for that cocktail. Although, even by Murray's own statement, Michael only wanted the propofol and not the five piece cocktail Murray gave him. He justified this by saying we was trying to 'wean' Michael off of propofol because he was afraid he was becoming addictive to it. Although all research into propofol addiction does not point to Michael being one. Also, Murray never said why he thought he was becoming addictive to begin with and why he used other drugs that are just as bad if not worst than propofol to wean him off.
Michael never asked Chopra for propofol, he asked for Demerol for his back. Chopra, for whatever reason, thought Michael was lying about his pain and just wanted pain pills to either get high or to numb some kind of emotional pain. Even though Chopra never say way he thought Michael was faking, since he himself never saw Michael high or abusing medication.
Nurse Lee actually said that Michael was looking for someone to
administer propofol, not actually buy him some. Apparently he wanted a train doctor to watch him and not just some random bodyguard. This shows that Michael was aware that propofol could be danger if not properly monitor, so he wanted someone there with medical training if something went wrong.
To your last question, only Murray said that Michael had an addiction or becoming addicted to propofol. He never used the word depended, he specially said addicted. Nurse Lee said that Michael was not an addict or taking any drugs from what she had seen and her blood tests support her theory. If he had insomnia before taking propofol, it does not really support dependency since he could not sleep anyway. Also, Murray is the one saying he gave Michael propofol every night for 6 weeks. While his lawyer said he was only there every other day. Murray also suggested that Michael had a complex drug history and was taking other medication, even though the only drugs found in his body were his.
The dependency is more of a theory by some fans to explain why Michael had insomnia, since they are saying that he constantly needed sleep medication to rest, although there is no evident that has arisen to support that either way.
So yes, everything about the propofol dependency is more or less base on Murray's statements. There is no other partying saying this except Dr Stacy, I think that her name, but she has little creditability since she too said that Michael was an addict to different medication including anxiety pills and he wanted her to have his fourth child. Also, far as I know she had yet product any medical files on Michael to the police, so she cannot even prove that she ever treated Michael in the past.
