Saturday, October 15, 2011

Medical Marijuana Patients Might Lose Their 2nd Amendment Rights

Medical Marijuana Patients Might Lose Their 2nd Amendment Rights:

Medical Marijuana Gun RightsMedical Marijuana Patients Might Lose Their Second Amendment Rights


In its continuing effort to pare down the number of Americans who can exercise their rights under the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms has sent a letter to firearms dealers informing them that medical patients “addicted” to legally dispensed medical marijuana have no right to own and possess firearms.

According to Arthur Herbert, Assistant Director of Enforcement Programs and Services at the ATF, “any person who uses or is addicted to marijuana, regardless of whether his or her State has passed legislation authorizing marijuana use of medicinal purposes, is an unlawful user or addicted to a controlled substance, and is prohibited by Federal law from possessing firearms or ammunition” and will be compelled to admit the prescribed use of medical marijuana on ATF forms at the point of purchase. (Continue reading this story).

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