Posted on 05/11/2019 11:07:47 AM PDT by McQ444
A meme posted to Facebook claimed that “nearly every state that has legalized [marijuana] has also legislated that you lose your right to own a gun if you are prescribed it, or buy it recreationally.”“Pot legalization is turning out to be a back-door way for the government to get you to voluntarily give up your gun rights,” reads the image.
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Prospective gun buyers must fill out a federal form indicating whether or not they use or are addicted to illegal drugs. The form warns that the “use or possession of marijuana remains unlawful under Federal law regardless of whether it has been legalized or decriminalized” at the state level. Making false statements on the form is a felony offense.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has previously ruled that a firearms ban for medical marijuana cards holders does not violate the 2nd Amendment.
Mind you, this covers purchase, not possession, and to the best of my knowledge no one has been prosecuted yet, but it is the law.
Thus far, Oregon seems content to pass a red flag law and attempt to outlaw 95% of the guns in the State.
It remains a fact that: “a citizen who uses any illicit drug, including marijuana, is barred from owning firearms or ammunition. There are no exceptions in Federal law for marijuana purportedly used for medical purposes, even if such use is sanctioned by State law.”
So, while States may not be passing LEGISLATION to remove the gun rights of pot heads, in reality, they don’t need to, because FEDERAL LAW already does that.
The spirit of the meme is actually TRUE although not artfully stated.
Yet. Concealed carry license holders at risk.
‘“Pot legalization is turning out to be a back-door way for the government to get you to voluntarily give up your gun rights,” reads the image.’
I think legalizing pot and magic mushrooms is the another way the left is seizing control. Make a large part of the population on dependent on drugs, take control of the distribution of the drugs, then threaten to cut off supply unless you obey our commands.
Until there is some registry to cross-check tokers with gun purchases or CCW license holders, its just another law to be ignored.
Correct. The meme would have been better stated: “If you decide to be a pot head, then keep in mind what the federal law is.”
18 USC 922(g)(3): “It shall be unlawful for any person—who is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance (as defined in section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802)); to ship or transport in interstate or foreign commerce, or possess in or affecting commerce, any firearm or ammunition; or to receive any firearm or ammunition which has been shipped or transported in interstate or foreign commerce.”
Colorado = red flag law.
Also, Denver just approved magic mushrooms. Who said that pot is not a gateway drug— pot, now mushrooms, next up coke, heroin, meth will be allowed.
Well said antidemocrat.
Seemed ridiculous to me to pass laws allowing use of marijuana in any state if it is disallowed by federal law. How is it that state law can override federal law anyway? Assuming there IS a federal law against sale & possession of marijuana.
Neither Marijuana or magic mushrooms are capable of causing a person to become dependent on them.
Neither of these drugs are addictive.
Both of them are hallucinogens, and hallucinogens are not addictive substances.
There's a difference between "approved" vs. "decriminalized", which is what they've actually done.
“Until there is some registry to cross-check tokers with gun purchases or CCW license holders, its just another law to be ignored”.
You’re exactly right.
How did Prohibition work out?
Simple answer is yes
Has anyone heard of the 10th amendment to the constitution? Since the answer seems to be “no”, here it is:
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
The Federal government has no constitutional authority to regulate drugs. That’s why a constitutional amendment had to be passed for prohibition to be enacted. The idea that Federal drug laws have any relevance in a state that has decriminalized marijuana is preposterous.
It’s too bad we don’t have our elected officials take an oath to uphold the constitution, maybe that would help.
I assure you that with most banking laws forcing mj outlets to do cash business, there aren’t many proprietors walking around with bags of cash and unarmed.
Agreed. But federal laws are moot if the state or localities refuse to enforce them. Besides, one by one states will change until federal law is invalidated.
Article 1, section 18 of the Constitution
lists the enumerated powers of the government.
One of which is...
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years
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