420 with CNW — Bruen Ruling Could Bring Good Tid
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Posted On: 06/14/2023 5:04:00 PM
420 with CNW — Bruen Ruling Could Bring Good Tidings to Marijuana Movement
A 2022 ruling by the Supreme Court has radically changed a century-old U.S. gun law and significantly altered how courts assess gun laws. Judges in the New York Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen overturned a 100-year-old gun safety law and ruled that a New York law requiring licenses to conceal carry weapons in public was unconstitutional.
The overturned New York gun law was strikingly similar to gun safety laws in seven other states, and the June 2022 ruling set a precedent for overturning these laws.
In the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling, judges in several states overturned gun laws that set age restrictions, banned domestic abusers or people currently under federal indictment from possessing firearms, and outlawed the removal of serial numbers from firearms. The ruling has wide-reaching consequences that could even affect America’s nascent but swiftly growing cannabis industry.
Although millions of Americans now have access to medical and recreational cannabis through more than two dozen legal markets, federal law still prohibits the cultivation, distribution, sale and consumption of cannabis. As a result, people who take part in state-legal cannabis markets often find themselves at odds with federal law and often cannot access certain services and products due to prior or ongoing cannabis use.
Americans are required to state that they don’t use drugs when they buy guns, and cannabis users aren’t allowed to possess firearms in most states even though cannabis is legal at the state level and provides billions of dollars in tax revenue. However, judges are increasingly turning to the Bruen ruling in cases that involve cannabis use and the possession of a firearm.
In February, an Oklahoma federal judge cited Bruen in a case where a man was found with a handgun and marijuana in his car, and a federal district judge in Texas did the same for a woman who had marijuana and guns in her house. In both cases, the judges struck down a provision banning marijuana users from possessing guns, stating that the precedent set by Bruen showed the provisions on marijuana users and firearms were unconstitutional.
Even though other federal courts aren’t necessarily bound to the two rulings, they could form a precedent if the government appeals the rulings and loses.
With hundreds of Americans being convicted and sentenced due to these anti-cannabis provisions in gun law, setting such a precedent would save thousands of Americans from America’s particularly harsh court system.
As more jurisdictions address some of these inconsistencies between federal and state law regarding marijuana, the industry could grow faster and create business opportunities for related enterprises such as Advanced Container Technologies Inc. (OTC: ACTX).
NOTE TO INVESTORS: The latest news and updates relating to Advanced Container Technologies Inc. (OTC: ACTX) are available in the company’s newsroom at https://cnw.fm/ACTX
Please see full terms of use and disclaimers on the CannabisNewsWire website applicable to all content provided by CNW420, wherever published or re-published: http://CNW.fm/Disclaimer
A 2022 ruling by the Supreme Court has radically changed a century-old U.S. gun law and significantly altered how courts assess gun laws. Judges in the New York Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen overturned a 100-year-old gun safety law and ruled that a New York law requiring licenses to conceal carry weapons in public was unconstitutional.
The overturned New York gun law was strikingly similar to gun safety laws in seven other states, and the June 2022 ruling set a precedent for overturning these laws.
In the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling, judges in several states overturned gun laws that set age restrictions, banned domestic abusers or people currently under federal indictment from possessing firearms, and outlawed the removal of serial numbers from firearms. The ruling has wide-reaching consequences that could even affect America’s nascent but swiftly growing cannabis industry.
Although millions of Americans now have access to medical and recreational cannabis through more than two dozen legal markets, federal law still prohibits the cultivation, distribution, sale and consumption of cannabis. As a result, people who take part in state-legal cannabis markets often find themselves at odds with federal law and often cannot access certain services and products due to prior or ongoing cannabis use.
Americans are required to state that they don’t use drugs when they buy guns, and cannabis users aren’t allowed to possess firearms in most states even though cannabis is legal at the state level and provides billions of dollars in tax revenue. However, judges are increasingly turning to the Bruen ruling in cases that involve cannabis use and the possession of a firearm.
In February, an Oklahoma federal judge cited Bruen in a case where a man was found with a handgun and marijuana in his car, and a federal district judge in Texas did the same for a woman who had marijuana and guns in her house. In both cases, the judges struck down a provision banning marijuana users from possessing guns, stating that the precedent set by Bruen showed the provisions on marijuana users and firearms were unconstitutional.
Even though other federal courts aren’t necessarily bound to the two rulings, they could form a precedent if the government appeals the rulings and loses.
With hundreds of Americans being convicted and sentenced due to these anti-cannabis provisions in gun law, setting such a precedent would save thousands of Americans from America’s particularly harsh court system.
As more jurisdictions address some of these inconsistencies between federal and state law regarding marijuana, the industry could grow faster and create business opportunities for related enterprises such as Advanced Container Technologies Inc. (OTC: ACTX).
NOTE TO INVESTORS: The latest news and updates relating to Advanced Container Technologies Inc. (OTC: ACTX) are available in the company’s newsroom at https://cnw.fm/ACTX
Please see full terms of use and disclaimers on the CannabisNewsWire website applicable to all content provided by CNW420, wherever published or re-published: http://CNW.fm/Disclaimer
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