Fifth Circuit Tosses Another Weed and Guns Conviction as Supreme Court Weighs Issue

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A Mississippi man can't be permanently disarmed for merely possessing a gun as someone who regularly uses marijuana.

A Mississippi man can’t be permanently disarmed for merely possessing a gun as someone who regularly uses marijuana. That’s the conclusion a Fifth Circuit panel reached on Friday. In a two-to-one decision, the panel found the federal law barring habitual drug users from possessing guns is unconstitutional as applied to 26-year-old Kevin L. Mitchell. It ruled that a lower court should have…

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