Federal restrictions prohibiting Florida medical marijuana patients from buying and using guns violates the Second Amendment, an appellate court ruled Wednesday.
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with former Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried and MMJ patients, whose 2022 lawsuit challenged the prohibitions, according to WMBB Panama City.
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In Wednesday’s 26-page decision, Judge Elizabeth Branch wrote that the allegations must be interpreted “in the light most favorable” to the plaintiffs.
And law enforcement’s claims “do not lead to an inference that they, because they are medical marijuana users, can be fairly labeled as dangerous” and thus are “disarmed wrongly,” she added.
The three-judge panel sent the case back to a lower court to be revisited.
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