New Oklahoma Gun Laws Means Patients Can Get Guns and Their Weed

A new bill to strengthen Oklahoma gun laws just passed the state senate. Medical cannabis patients will be happy. The unanimously approved proposal would allow patients with valid medical cannabis cards to buy, own, and operate firearms within the state. It sounds reasonable – but the new bill is almost certainly a direct violation of federal law. In the United States, it is illegal for anyone who owns, buys, distributes, or otherwise engages with Schedule I substances to have guns. That includes buying, using, and even transporting firearms. The new Oklahoma gun laws, and others modeled after it, are setting up a Constitutional showdown between pro-gun cannabis patients and a Nixon-era government regulation. The question is: Does the federal regulation overrule the Second Amendment or is it a legitimate curtailing of the right to bear arms? What Led to the Oklahoma Gun Laws  Currently, the ability to buy guns in the United States is curtailed by the ability to pass background checks, which are carried out under the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (commonly called the ATF for short). Background checks ensure that people who are not allowed to own guns — felons, domestic abusers, undocumented immigrants, and certain classes of mentally ill people — are not purchasing weapons. While people who abuse harmful drugs is probably a good class to add to that list, the problem comes when state governments and the federal government disagree on which drugs are dangerous. Right now, medicinal cannabis cardholders who own…

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