Discrimination by medicine? Cannabis users have no Second Amendment rights, court rules
by: J. D. Heyes
NaturalNews.com
Saturday, September 03, 2016
Court watchers know that the Ninth U.S. Circuit is one of the most liberal, most-overturned of all circuit courts. So it wasn’t a surprise to many when leftist judges there recently ruled to uphold a ban on gun sales and possession to anyone who uses marijuana for medical purposes – even if it’s legal in their respective state.
As reported by NORML, an organization that is working to reform laws governing the use of marijuana, the judges’ decision backs The Gun Control Act of 1968, a federal law that prohibits the sale of guns to any “unlawful user” of a federally controlled substance. To that end, though the Obama administration’s Justice Department refuses to pursue legal action against the states of Colorado and Washington over recently approved ballot measures allowing recreational use of marijuana, the White House has allowed the Drug Enforcement Agency to continue to classify pot as a Schedule I controlled substance.
Judges making it up
In making their ruling, the judges further determined that their ban “furthers the government’s interest in preventing gun violence,” because cannabis users are supposedly more likely to be involved in violent gun-related crimes. They concluded: “[The plaintiff in this case] does not have a constitutionally protected liberty interest in simultaneously holding a [medical cannabis] registry card and purchasing a firearm.”
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