Posted on 02/21/2014 9:44:37 PM PST by steve86
RICHLAND, WA-- A Richland medical marijuana patient recently applied for a Concealed Pistol License, but was denied by police.
Medical marijuana is legal under Washington state law, but the federal government won't make an exception for that when it comes to getting a Concealed Pistol License.
Richland police sent the medical marijuana patient a letter stating that federal law prohibits anyone who uses a controlled substance from "shipping, transporting, receiving or possessing firearms or ammunition."
And even if marijuana is legal here, it's still illegal at the federal level.
When anyone applies for a concealed weapons permit with Richland police, they have to follow these federal restrictions.
The woman who was denied the license wants to remain anonymous.
"It is hard enough to be judged as a patient, but then to have my Second Amendment rights messed with, that was shocking and incredibly upsetting," said the medical marijuana patient denied the license.
This patient says she uses the drug for chronic pain and uses products that don't make her high.
She says this license denial makes her feel like she's being treated like a criminal and not a legal patient and citizen.
She says she hopes a compromise between the state and federal laws can be reached.
I thought all the kool dudes use a vape pen now.
Don’t partake but as I recall the purpose of smoking was to get high and to get the most out of your stash so pulling a clinton, i.e. smoking but not inhaling (yeah, right) would be wasting your investment.
I bought the whole setup for e-cigarettes and it just didn't do it for me so I'm still smoking the old-timey analog tobacco. I like campfires and charcoal fired BBQs too. I'm such a dinosaur.
Prolly nothin hard enough in that household either.
0bama’s bone head. I’ve always thought of him as a dildo.
Does that include things like Prozac, Celebrex, insulin, and other normal prescription drugs?
-PJ
Others are. For example. Ritalin, which is used for adults as well.
Yes, those are controlled substances but ... (someone help me here, I’ve got nothin’)
-PJ
The opiate derivatives are controlled as well, of course. Ritalin is a schedule II.
Sorry, didn’t mean to imply Ritalin is an opiate derivative. It (Methylphenidate) is a phenethylamine class drug.
You are correct in the very broad sense of a controlled drug being a drug for which the government controls distribution and use. But that’s not what everyone (including the ATF or whoever) means what they talk about “controlled substances”.
I was thinking of the legal sense. Where are the distinctions broken down by ATF or whoever?
He despises the U.S.
That’s what I hate about it all.
Scheduled drugs are rated from I to V. These are drugs like Ritalin, oxycodone, methadone.
Schedule I are drugs that are only able to be used in research. PCP, heroin, LSD, marijuana.
If your neighborhood doctor has a DEA license it is II-V only.
That's why there is no such thing as "prescription medical marijuana".
You can obtain a "recommendation" from a doctor, but the patient must then find a "legal" dispensary.
If a doctor wrote a Rx for MJ, he'd be breaking Federal law.
With legal pot in CA and WA, this is a moot point.
BUT, they require special prescription paper. They cannot be phoned in or faxed.
Needs to be a hard copy.
Sorry.
You're being hysterical. Would you feel more comfortable with this woman drinking alcohol and carrying a gun?
Alcohol is by far a more dangerous drug than pot, whether legal or not. Alcohol is magnitudes more likely to produce aggression, poor judgment, and violence in an individual than virtually any other contraband.
So lemme get this straight: a person who has recently used a recreational substance (illegal or not), or who even might use one, must forfeit their Unalienable right to self-defense? That's preposterous.
Your understanding of the concept of Freedom seems profoundly shallow...
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