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Biden DOJ Says Medical Marijuana Patients Are Too ‘Dangerous To Trust’

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orthene:
The Department of Justice asked a federal court on Monday to dismiss a lawsuit that seeks to overturn a policy blocking medical marijuana patients from buying or owning guns. The filling is partly premised on the government’s position that it would be too “dangerous to trust regular marijuana users to exercise sound judgment” with firearms.

In making its case for dismissal, DOJ also drew eyebrow-raising historical parallels to past gun bans for groups like Native Americans, Catholics, panhandlers, those who refuse to take an oath of allegiance to the government and people who shoot firearms while drunk.

The lawsuit at hand, which was filed by Florida’s Democratic agriculture commissioner Nikki Fried and several medical cannabis consumers, asserts that the federal government is unlawfully depriving patients of their constitutional rights on multiple grounds, and the plaintiffs filed a revised complaint last month following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on an unrelated gun rights case in New York.

As plaintiffs anticipated, DOJ submitted the motion to dismiss the case on Monday, the court-imposed deadline for a response. The government provided a justification for its dismissal request in an attached memorandum.

At a top level, the Justice Department said the gun rights are generally reserved for “law-abiding” people. Florida might have legalized medical cannabis, but the department said that doesn’t matter as long as it remains federally prohibited. It also said that, while two of the plaintiffs who were denied firearms after admitting on a federal form that they use medical marijuana might have standing for injury, it said neither the commissioner nor a separate defendant could say the same.

DOJ’s memo is also full of curious references to precedent and historic gun policies, in addition to dismissing the definition of medical marijuana altogether because the government upholds that cannabis “has no currently accepted medical use.”

“This memorandum uses the phrase ‘medical marijuana’ for convenience, but Congress has found that marijuana ‘has no currently accepted medical use.'”

Full article link:
https://www.marijuanamoment.net/biden-doj-says-medical-marijuana-patients-are-too-dangerous-to-trust-in-motion-to-dismiss-lawsuit-on-gun-rights/

BurnMan:
 the government upholds that cannabis “has no currently accepted medical use.”


The same govt that supplied mmj to glaucoma patients for decades.

jones:
10 years ago the ATF told me if I saw a medical marijuana card in a client's wallet or purse, I couldn't sell that person a gun

3V1L9371U5:
It seems that these alphabetically-themed groups are overly concerned with everyone else's recreational hobbies for some reason.



Can't wait to see how that $80 billions' worth of IRS agents loosed upon an unsuspecting America turns out!

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