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I entirely agree with them – less guns!

Not sure it’ll go down well with the base though.

A discussion of guns always seems to concentrate minds in the usa.

Marijuana Moment

Several Republican senators are questioning the federal ban on gun possession by people who use marijuana—with one saying that if alcohol drinkers can lawfully buy and use firearms, the same standard should apply to cannabis consumers.

In a series of interviews with Marijuana Moment, the GOP lawmakers discussed the intersection of Second Amendment rights and drug policy as the U.S. Supreme Court is considering taking up several pending cases on the issue—which centers around a federal statute known as Section 922(g)(3) that some say is inconsistent with conservative principles.

“Why would I have a problem with that any more than somebody who drinks alcohol?” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) said of cannabis consumers being able to possess guns.

Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) said that while he needs to “look into the details” of the specific pending legal cases before the Supreme Court, he’s “highly skeptical” of the ban, “given that marijuana is legal in my state, and my state probably has the most gun owners of any state in the country.”

“A Second Amendment right can’t be trumped by a statute,” he said. “That’s why it’s called a constitutional right.”

On the flip side, however, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said that he broadly has a “problem with all this legalization of marijuana in general and using cars,” suggesting that he believes cannabis reform is associated with increased risk of traffic safety issues, despite conflicting evidence.

“Obviously you shouldn’t be using a firearm if you’re under the influence of anything,” Johnson told Marijuana Moment.

To be clear, the several cases the high court justices were scheduled to discuss at a closed-door meeting on Friday don’t concern whether people who are actively intoxicated on marijuana or other substances should handle firearms; they have to do with the law that bars anyone who is a user of cannabis from even owning or purchasing a gun.

Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) gave a more nuanced response to the question about the various cases pending before the Supreme Court on the issue, stating that if she was in the justices’ position and wanted to “duck the issue,” she’d take up one the Justice Department has prioritized that involves cocaine as well as marijuana.

“But I haven’t heard anything about it,” she said. “I think it will be revealing if they grant cert to one and not the other.”

Sullivan, for his part, said that for cannabis reformers, the case the Trump administration is asking the justices to take up involving cocaine “might not be the test case you want.”

Meanwhile, a man who was prosecuted after admitting to lying about his marijuana use on a federal firearms purchasing form recently asked the Supreme Court to take up the matter as the justices are actively considering several other cases on cannabis consumers’ gun rights.

The new petition to the high court comes as the Justice Department is separately asking it to dismiss one of multiple pending cases concerning marijuana and gun rights, in large part because it expects the justices to make a precedent-setting ruling on the issue.

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