from Ben Adlin, Marijuana Moment:
A federal appeals court panel has dismissed a three-year prison sentence against a person convicted for possession of a firearm while being an active user of marijuana, ruling that the federal government’s prohibition on gun ownership by drug users is justified only in certain circumstances—not always.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit said in its opinion issued on Wednesday that while not all disarmament of drug users violates the Second Amendment, it nevertheless sometimes can.
“Nothing in our tradition allows disarmament simply because [the defendant] belongs to a category of people, drug users, that Congress has categorically deemed dangerous,” the ruling says.
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