Potheads can retain their Second Amendment rights according to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled yesterday that marijuana users can keep their Second Amendment rights. I always thought that law was stupid. Obviously, the Supreme Court agrees.
According to The Hill:
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday the government can’t criminally prosecute a man for possessing a firearm simply because he regularly smoked marijuana, rejecting the government’s comparison to the disarmament habitual drunkards in the founding era.
Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote that it violates his right to keep arms under the conservative justices’ expanded Second Amendment test. It requires gun control measures be consistent with the nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.
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