CANNABIS PATIENTS FOR THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS
Political Action Committee
Advocating to repeal the ban on firearm possession by users of state-legal medicinal marijuana.
15 years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine.
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That is the sentence risked by anyone who possesses both a state marijuana license and a gun—a policy the Biden administration defended by claiming power to strip constitutional rights for any reason, and which Trump is fighting to continue. Enraging though it is, this presents a precious opportunity to demonstrate that tyranny can be defeated only through nonpartisan effort.
Elected Democrats overwhelmingly support the legalization of cannabis, Republican politicians make guns part of their identity, and each party claims to champion liberty more strongly than the other, yet they collaborate in allowing such immoral nonsense. To right this specific wrong while shining a spotlight on the larger issue of arbitrary authoritarianism, please contribute here.
Consider These Facts
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40 states have legalized medicinal cannabis, with nationwide approval at 87%.
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Kamala Harris pledged to fully legalize marijuana as president, and House Democrats voted to do so almost unanimously.
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Gun ownership has been dramatically rising—the number of background checks per year doubled from 2009 to 2019 even before a massive pandemic-era spike driven largely by traditionally Democratic demographics—and amid this torrent of new guns, murder is plummeting to historic lows.
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More than eight million Americans acknowledged using physician-prescribed cannabis in 2020, and the annual rate of increase indicates that the current number of patients is at least 13 million.
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The portion of Americans who are politically independent, 45% and rising, with the 29% identifying as gun owners; based on the percentage of adults in the population, the number of independent gun owners is about 35 million.
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The number of votes that decided the 2024 presidential election was less than 230,000.
Lawmakers should be tripping over each other to axe
this senseless restriction, so why aren’t they? ​
Republicans, as bizarre as it seems, quite simply appear bound by tradition to fight a culture war against 1930s “reefer madness” at any cost.
Democrats’ share of the blame requires far more explanation, as it results from an intense disinformation campaign by anti-gun zealots who spent decades infiltrating academia to promote a lie: that the right to keep and bear arms was historically viewed as belonging only to government organizations.
The overwhelming majority of Americans rejected this so-called “collective right” even before District of Columbia v. Heller did in 2008, but in just the past few years:
Sen. Cory Booker deemed Heller “disastrous and wrongly decided.”
Hillary Clinton said, “The Supreme Court is wrong on the Second Amendment. And I am going to make that case every chance I get.”
The Supreme Court of Hawaii unanimously insisted that “the Second Amendment provided a collective right” which only “protects a state’s right to have a militia.”
The top Democrat on Congress’ Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government, after being reminded that Heller “declared the Second Amendment to be an individual constitutional right,” retorted, “I think we’ll all disagree on that one.”
The president of gun control organization Brady lamented that “politicians currently promote a false interpretation of the Second Amendment.”
Federal judge Carlton W. Reeves, Chairman of the US Sentencing Commission, issued an order based in part on the “glaring disagreement” about “whether the Second Amendment confers a broad, individual right to bear arms, or a more limited, collective right.”
Major gun control group March for our Lives complained that " many Americans think that the 2A has always been a stalwart protector of an individual right” while instead "the Second Amendment as we know it was created—not discovered—in 2008.”
Sen. Chris Murphy wrote that “the 2nd Amendment is about collective, not personal defense.”
The most prominent gun control advocate in the country instructed his million-plus social media followers that the Second Amendment is “essentially a right to a national guard.”
Despite being repudiated by the American public and the Supreme Court, “collective right” clearly still exerts a powerful influence on policy. It is the basis on which federal courts validated literally every challenged gun control law until 2008, yet even the most ineffective and ridiculous restrictions are still routinely passed and upheld despite the night-and-day shift from a legal framework in which civilians have no arms rights to one in which they do.
This continued devotion to “collective right” would allow a future Supreme Court to overturn Heller and endorse the most drastic restrictions imaginable, so it’s critical for moderate gun control advocates to realize that they too benefit from exposing those who have spent over 50 years advising lawmakers with fake history. To that end, a massive trove of new evidence finally shatters this farce beyond question.