“So I guess that means that if you sometimes drink alcohol, you also have no right to bear arms.”
Or take aspirin. Yeah, I’m exaggerating...but only a little bit.
I can’t find that in the Second Amendment. I think the DOJ needs to get off their asses and show us where they found that in the Bill of Rights. I guess since Chicagoans have such a high murder rate, they don’t get Second Amendment rights either, huh?
Next, the democraps will declare all members of the republican party to be domestic terrorists and they cannot have guns.
I am not even kidding.
We are a lawless nation now. Might is right.
So here is a bit from an earlier article that puts a little more color on what the court case is about:
FDACS Commissioner Nicole Fried says the federal government’s “irrational, inconsistent, and incoherent federal marijuana policy” undermines Florida’s medical marijuana and firearms laws and prevents her from ensuring Floridians’ related state rights.
According to the complaint, two sections of the federal criminal code forbid Florida residents who qualify as medical marijuana patients from possessing or purchasing a firearm.
These sections are unconstitutional, and they prevent residents from exercising their Second Amendment rights, the commissioner says, and it prevents the full implementation of Florida’s medical marijuana program.
Additionally, the challenged sections “embodies the contradictory nature of the United States’ marijuana policy,” according to the plaintiffs.
Plaintiffs Vera Cooper, Nicole Hansell and Neill Franklin have all been affected by the relevant sections of the federal criminal code, according to the complaint.
Cooper and Hansell are Florida residents and medical marijuana patients. Both wish to purchase firearms for personal protection in their homes and elsewhere but cannot due to the current law, according to the complaint.
Franklin is a Florida resident, a retired law enforcement officer, and a firearm owner. The complaint states that a qualifying physician prescribed him medical marijuana for a qualifying medical condition, but Franklin chose not to participate because he did not want to give up his Second Amendment rights.
The plaintiffs state that they do not challenge the federal government’s right to enact firearms regulations, but that the challenged sections and regulations are unconstitutional.
“Those provisions, as applied to state-law-abiding medical marijuana patients, such as Cooper and Hansell, and those reasonably seeking to participate in the state medical marijuana program, such as Franklin, offer no protection to the public,” the complaint states. “They also place an inappropriate and severe burden on the constitutional rights of those affected.”
Read more at: https://www.law360.com/articles/1486149?copied=1
It does not give me comfort that our rights are being argued by Fried, who is an avowed gun control advocate.
Is it time to start shooting yet?
Why I never got a Medical Marijuana card, despite some very good reasons for doing so.
Yet another list to stay off of.
I saw this coming a mile away. The same theory will apply to a bevy of legally prescribed pharmaceuticals gobbled up daily by Americans. Take a look at the labeling on these drugs. Most can affect judgement, the operation of motor vehicles, etc.
Actually, an intoxicated person is barred from arms under both (most, if not all) state and federal laws.
And barred from driving on public roads, flying private or commercial aircraft, etc.
Clear precedent. It’s a rarity that one can on occasion agree with this DOJ.
MJ is a controlled substance with no proven medical use. Being stoned is not a therapy. I know many freepers libertarian streak will call for my “stoning”, but this is truth.
The thing is, pot is legal (state level) and illegal (Congressional statute) at the same time. Alcohol is not both at once.
The feds can disarm anybody they want to. Pretext is sufficient, but Congress is behind (as in supportive of) prosecuting the people for violation of federal law.
BFL
In before gun-grabbers take sides with fedfov over the Second and Tenth Amendments.
Alcohol is federally legal. Illegal dope is .... illegal. They’re right. Marijuana should never have been legalized.
I’m pretty sure that does NOT apply to Oregon.
Wall to wall stoners and most likely most armed to protect their stash.
Wait a trap. Made Marijuana legal, made medical Marijuana easily accessible. Then, wham! These people are sadistic.
Hunter Biden may testify as an expert witness as to how drug use does not prohibit a person from buying a firearm.
Alcohol is not in the federal statute. Marijuana is.
Don't like it, petition the government to have the law changed.
Step two: Make it illegal for those who smoke to own guns.
Alcohol is legal under Federal law. Pot is illegal under Federal law. If you use illegal substances, you are prohibited from owning firearms. That’s one reason that medical marijuana should be avoided, there is a paper trail showing you are using pot.
I think Federal laws should be changed relating to pot, but the law is clear, and those holding medical marijuana cards don’t have much of a defense if the Feds come after them on gun charges.
I live (unfortunately for now) in Maryland. Earlier this summer - I was in central NY - in Auburn.
Anyone - I mean anyone - can walk into the Weed Warehouse in west Auburn and buy all the pot they want - cards? they don’t need no stinking cards.
Or anyone can go over to Union Springs and buy all they want from the Cayuga Indians - they sell it at their convenience store.
With the legalization of recreational pot - cards won’t matter.
but but but Brittney GRINDER!!!