The governor of Colorado says his state should not have joined a lawsuit supporting the federal ban on gun ownership by people who use marijuana that’s now before the U.S. Supreme Court—and he personally opposes the state attorney general’s “legal position on this.”
It took some by surprise when Colorado’s top prosecutor, as well as the attorneys general of other states that have legalized cannabis, signed on to a December filing with the court backing the Trump administration Justice Department’s argument that current federal statute barring cannabis consumers from buying or possessing firearms is constitutional and warranted.
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D), a longtime advocate for marijuana reform as well as gun rights, posted on X on Monday that there’s “no reason that someone should be banned from exercising their Second Amendment right simply because they use marijuana, especially when that logic is not being applied in the same way to other substances such as alcohol.”
X added context to the post, pointing out that Polis’s comment contradicted his own state’s official position in the federal case, U.S. vs. Hemani, that could decide the fate of the statute known as 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3).
There is no reason
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