Supreme Court rules for marijuana user prosecuted for gun possession
The Supreme Court ruled the government can’t criminally prosecute a man for possessing a firearm simply because he regularly smoked marijuana, in a unanimous decision Thursday. Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote that it violates his right to keep arms under the conservative justices’ exp
The Supreme Court ruled the government can’t criminally prosecute a man for possessing a firearm simply because he regularly smoked marijuana, in a unanimous decision Thursday. Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote that it violates his right to keep arms under the conservative justices’ expanded Second Amendment test. “To square that expansive theory with the Second Amendment, the government…
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