Obama administration says medical marijuana patients are prohibited from owning guns.

[Better Believe It]

ATF say medical-marijuana patients are prohibited from owning guns
By John Ingold
The Denver Post
October 3, 2011

Brian Vicente, one of the state's most prominent medical-marijuana proponents, calls it a "travesty." Tony Fabian, one of the state's foremost gun-rights activists, says it's evidence of "hostility."

What has forged this quirky convergence of advocacy — tokers, meet shooters — is a September letter from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives saying it is illegal for medical-marijuana patients to own firearms.

Everybody who buys a gun must fill out ATF Form 4473, which asks: "Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance?"

Answer yes, and you don't get the gun. Falsely answer no, and you've just committed a crime.

Read the full article at:

http://www.denverpost.com/news/marijuana/ci_19026921

[notadmblnd]

1. Well I'm sure you've heard all the pothead with a gun- gone rampaging stories.

yeah, me neither.

[EFerrari]

4. Nobody ever smoked a joint and went up into a tower with a rifle that I know of. n/t

[geardaddy]

2. "Are you an unlawful user of..."

That negates the argument right there. MMJ users are legal users.

[truebrit71]

16. That's how I read it too....

:shrug:

[Marnie]

17. The statement implies that any stimulant or

suppressant even if prescribed is an unlawful substance.

[mmonk]

3. What about beer drinking rednecks?

They seem a little more dangerous to have a gun to me.

[notadmblnd]

5. that's for sure. The only thing I've ever heard of a pot-head attacking

Is a bag of Doritos.

[Better Believe It]

9. But what about when they are seized by reefer madness?

I once had a "hippie" threaten to take one of my twinkees after he smoked one of those lethal doobees.

Can you imagine what would have happened if he had brandished a knife (the buttering kind) a fork or even worse a gun?

[madinmaryland]

6. I was thinking the same thing.

:shrug:

[hlthe2b]

7. This is obscene....

and I'm obviously not a major gun advocate, but this is just wrong. There is no justification for this. None.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

8. Boozers, out of control are fine. Laid back stoners? No way

[notadmblnd]

10. marijuana isn't addictive.

My answer would be on that form would be no.

[tridim]

11. Why does everything you post start with the words "Obama administration"?

That is not what the headline states nor what the story implies.

It's bullshit, and you know it.

[Bobbie Jo]

12. I think some of us are onto the "why." nt

[DCKit]

13. An excellent point. nt

[AverageJoe90]

18. Yeah, I wonder too.

In any case, the ATF needs to get off their asses here........go after some real crooks ya schmucks!

[MineralMan]

20. Because that's the pattern of these posts.

I just unrecommend them when they're like that.

[markpkessinger]

21. Perhaps because the ATF is a function of the executive branch n/t

[NutmegYankee]

14. I don't get it. Medical use is Lawful use.

And it's not addictive, so no is the correct answer.

[B Calm]

15. When did they pass this law?

[tridim]

19. Apparently the ATF passed it out of their ass.

It's not the law, it's more ratfucking IMO. Just like the other bullshit MMJ story being passed around this week.

Both narratives are designed to make Liberals blame Obama for something he didn't do and doesn't agree with. The OP does this all the time because he hates Obama.