Last week, Marijuana Moment reported on a new Arkansas law that would protect medical cannabis users’ gun rights. This law is the most recent in a series of attempts by states to get around federal gun control laws that prohibit cannabis users from owning or buying guns. It won’t work.
I’ve written extensively on the federal laws at issue (see links to my posts below). Arkansas is trying to protect its medical cannabis users by prohibiting state agencies from considering marijuana use when determining if someone is entitled to carry a concealed handgun. Moreover, the state won’t deem someone a habitual controlled substance user just based on their status as a medical marijuana user. The new law also prohibits the state health department from disclosing a person who has a medical cannabis card to the state police for doing concealed handgun firearm checks.
There’s more to the law than that, but at this point it probably doesn’t make a huge difference. The law is destined to fail, and we have precedent. As I described here, the State of Missouri tried to similarly protect cannabis users’ gun rights and failed spectacularly. When the state’s law passed, the federal government sued and
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