The 11th District Court of Appeal at the US on Wednesday ruled in favor of a group of patients with medical cannabis in Florida, who claimed that their prevention from possession of weapons due to their medical practices prescribed by the doctor is unconstitutional, Reuters Reports.
Federal law prevents anyone who consumes a federal controlled substance – such as cannabis, which remains the program under federal law – from the legally possession of firearms. However, the lawsuit depends on a 2022 Supreme Court ruling that requires that weapons restrictions be “in accordance with the historical tradition of this nation of firearm.”
Originally accompanied by the then agricultural commissioner Florida Nikki Fried (D), plaintiffs filed their lawsuit in 2022arguing that federal policy violates the second change of patients with state -approved medical cannabis. The lawsuit also claimed that politics violates a provision of the Congress budget to prevent federal interference in state -level cannabis programs.
“As we have argued since the beginning of this case, the 2nd change does not allow the federal government to categorically consider all marijuana medical patients to be very dangerous to exercise their essential constitutional rights.” – William Hall, lawyer for plaintiffs in Jones Walker, in a statement
It is the second major victory for the owners of cannabis patient weapons this year after the 5th District Court of the US in January Riafirmova that the federal pursuit of a Mississippi man who was caught possessing a firearm while also consuming cannabis had violated the second change.
