MMJ Patients Don’t Have Gun Rights: Federal Court Rules On Nikki Fried’s Second Amendment Lawsuit11/20/2022
Florida’s agriculture and consumer services commissioner, Nikki Fried, filed a lawsuit earlier this year against the federal government. She was suing to allow medical marijuana patients the right to buy and own firearms. Current Federal law bans anyone who uses cannabis, even medical patients, from owning firearms, and they face felony charges if they lie about their marijuana use on the federal firearm application. This past week, a US District Judge gave a final ruling against Fried’s case. Judge Allen Winsor wrote in his ruling that “Florida’s medical marijuana users are ‘unlawful user[s] of . . . [a] controlled substance,’ so this law makes it a crime for them to possess firearms.” Fried’s lawsuit had argued that the federal ban requires state legal medical marijuana cardholders to choose between their health and their Second Amendment right. The judge wrote that this federal ban is meant to keep “guns from those in whose hands they could be dangerous,” and compared it to the ban on mentally ill individuals also being prevented from owning guns. He also wrote that regarding both the mentally ill and medical marijuana patients, he said “both categories of people can be dangerous when armed.” He continued to expound on it, and reaffirmed at they are simply “too dangerous to have guns.” Earlier this year, Fried stated, “I will never stop looking for outside-the-box ways we can further this fight until we achieve full and equitable legalization.”
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