Posted on 12/01/2020 12:52:37 PM PST by ammodotcom
If you’ve ever filled out a Form 4473, you’re familiar with the Question 11e: “Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or other controlled substance?” In case you thought there was any ambiguity with regard to medical marijuana, you were wrong. Indeed, there is a warning in bold right underneath the question that clarifies:
“Warning: The use or possession of marijuana remains unlawful under Federal law regardless of whether it has been legalized or decriminalized or for medicinal or recreational purposes in the state where you reside.”
Regardless of what one thinks about marijuana, its legalization or the right of the federal government to regulate either drugs or the internal laws of the various states, the fact remains: As of now, possession, sale and cultivation of marijuana remains a federal offense. It is a Schedule I drug in the same category as heroin and cocaine. You might not like that and you might think such classifications are ridiculous. The federal government doesn’t care.
This is a particularly difficult issue for people who use medicinal marijuana for bona fide medical purposes, rather than as a sort of legal loophole to consume marijuana legally. Many people use medicinal marijuana for a variety of purposes including relief from pain, Alzheimer’s symptoms, glaucoma, epilepsy and a number of complications related to cancer, including nausea and lack of appetite. The science on this is rather conclusive, so much so that Big Pharma makes legal synthetic THC pills known as marinol.
For those who use medical marijuana and wish to protect themselves with firearms, there is a choice: you can keep your guns or you can keep your grass or you can break the law.
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Maybe this will help: addiction and physical dependence are different issues. Therefore, marijuana treatment for pain may lead to physical dependence but not addiction.
I am under no obligation to tell the truth when it is none of anyone’s business. Anyway, all my firearms, ammo, and reloading gear were destroyed in a tragic boating accident.
Ayn Rand was pretty clear. It’s about making an impossible patchwork of laws that make everyone a criminal in some way. It’s a quandry.
CBDs are available OTC, and contain no THC.
That question on the 4473 is meaningless.
This comes back to the absurd categorization of marijuana as a schedule 1 drug, meaning highly addictive and no medical application. Neither is remotely accurate and we’ve known better for decades.
Ultimately, this is the worst of both worlds: punishing those who seek legitimate relief from real medical issues while stripping gun rights away from as many people as possible.
Yeah. Weed needs to be removed from Schedule 1. I don’t see Biden giving up that kind of control, though, should the left succeed in the theft of the election.
If you really don’t want to break the law by using medical marijuana and want/need to have a firearm, there’s always black powder weapons that are not considered firearms under federal law. Handguns are easy to find, in most states they can be mailed to your home. Finding black powder and caps might be a bit harder.
Yes, I know, it is easy to check ‘no’ on the 4473, but beyond that, using makes you a ‘prohibited person’ who is not supposed to own firearms at all, not just buy them. A prescription leaves a paper trial and a gun-hostile administration...who knows?
a gun-hostile administration...
is an unconstitutional administration...
an unconstitutional administration is tyranny.
Ain’t none of the government’s business whether I own guns or whether I smoke pot.
Interesting – so alcohol could be an issue… but who gets to decide if and when a person is an alcoholic?
Who do you think you are ... a free man?
How long after last joint does disability remain? They’d have a helluva time finding cops or agents these days who haven’t done the stuff at some time or another. It’s just another filthy goverment gotcha law. GTFOOH government.
Oops. I ate two CBD gummies on Sunday to see if they would help my neuropathy. Do I have to turn in my guns now? [/sarc]
Yeah, these damned Liber-Latrines on here acting like the Constitution actually means something or that state’s rights is for reals :-)
Weird, though, I see no mention of the goobermint regulating what I can put in my body in my copy of the Constitution; must be in that ‘living document’ the jackboot lickers on both sides of the political divide seem to know about.
Did they help?
a gun-hostile administration...is an unconstitutional administration...an unconstitutional administration is tyranny.
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