Your pot or your gun

[YankeeFan]

Sounds completely unconstitutional. NFL players among the most effected by this proposal:

Patients who want to qualify for medical marijuana in Illinois would have to be fingerprinted for a background check and pay $150 a year — and give up their right to own a gun, state officials proposed Tuesday.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-medical-marijuana-rules-met-20140122,0,1530419.story

 

[93Devil]

Here is a buried lede...

Todd Vandermyde, lobbyist for the National Rifle Association, said the NRA takes no position on the issue but that the rule seems to be an attempt to interpret federal law. A U.S. Department of Justice firearm application form asks if the buyer is "an unlawful user" of marijuana or other controlled substances.

Illinois regulations make clear that pot possession is still prohibited by federal law, and the state denies liability for damages arising from the program, including federal prosecution.

"It presents a novel legal conundrum," Vandermyde said. "The courts are going to have to reconcile it."


So if this opens the door to people who unlawfully use alcohol or drugs to have their guns taken away, too, then this might not be a bad idea.

I will be waiting for Vandermyde's backpedal soon.

 

[YankeeFan]

What other rights should folks have to give up if they want to use medical marijuana.

Should they have to give up a teaching license in exchange for medical marijuana? How about a commercial driver's license, like the kind required to drive a school bus?

 

[Baron Scicluna]

What other rights should folks have to give up if they want to use medical marijuana.

Should they have to give up a teaching license in exchange for medical marijuana? How about a commercial driver's license, like the kind required to drive a school bus?

What about a for-profit company's job? Should a company be able to fire someone because they use medical marijuana?

 

[Key]

Leave the gun...take the pot

 

[93Devil]

What other rights should folks have to give up if they want to use medical marijuana.

Should they have to give up a teaching license in exchange for medical marijuana? How about a commercial driver's license, like the kind required to drive a school bus?

If someone came to their workplace stoned, just like drunk, they should be fired.

The problem with your analogy is people carry guns at places other than workplaces.

 

[jr/shotglass]

I wonder how less likely someone is to discharge a gun when stoned.

 

[Bradley Guire]

Makes no sense. How is a cancer patient with weed and a gun any more dangerous than an asshole with a fifth of Jim Beam and a gun? Am I missing something?

 

[Football_Bat]

You sound like you're pro-medical marijuana, YF. If you weren't, you wouldn't care about the other rights being given up and would say the potheads deserved it.