ISmart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM), a leading anti-legalization advocacy nonprofit, has filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing that a federal law prohibiting cannabis users from lawfully owning firearms is consistent with the Second Amendment.
“Because of marijuana’s causal relationship with an increased risk of mental illness and violence, this Court should affirm the federal prohibition on drug users owning firearms,” SAM writes
Source: Sam Reisman – Linked In
Given the shared national work amici are doing to stop the flow of drugs and their harms to society, they have a strong interest in laws restricting drug users’ access to firearms. The evidence is clear: today’s highly potent marijuana causes psychosis, schizophrenia, other forms of severe mental illness, and violent behavior. Relaxing restrictions associated with the use of the drug, particularly by allowing users to obtain firearms, will magnify these harms exponentially and devastate America’s families.
