Medical marijuana users ‘have 30 days’ to turn in their guns, police say
By Josh Magness
jmagness@mcclatchy.com
If you use medical marijuana, you must turn in your guns.
That’s according to the Honolulu Police Department, which has been sending out letters to legal users of medicinal weed that they must forfeit their weapons, as reported by multiple news organizations.
The first legal medical marijuana dispensary opened in Hawaii this August, according to the Associated Press, even though medicinal pot was first legalized in 2000. There are currently 29 states that have some form of legalized medical pot.
Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article187082303.html#storylink=cpyBut the drug is still illegal under federal law, which trumps any laws on weed that states may pass, Joshua E. Jackson, spokesman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), told LeHigh Valley Live in Pennsylvania.
Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article187082303.html#storylink=cpy
jmagness@mcclatchy.com
If you use medical marijuana, you must turn in your guns.
That’s according to the Honolulu Police Department, which has been sending out letters to legal users of medicinal weed that they must forfeit their weapons, as reported by multiple news organizations.
The first legal medical marijuana dispensary opened in Hawaii this August, according to the Associated Press, even though medicinal pot was first legalized in 2000. There are currently 29 states that have some form of legalized medical pot.
Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article187082303.html#storylink=cpyBut the drug is still illegal under federal law, which trumps any laws on weed that states may pass, Joshua E. Jackson, spokesman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), told LeHigh Valley Live in Pennsylvania.
Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article187082303.html#storylink=cpy
Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article187082303.html#storylink=cpyBut the drug is still illegal under federal law, which trumps any laws on weed that states may pass, Joshua E. Jackson, spokesman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), told LeHigh Valley Live in Pennsylvania.
Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article187082303.html#storylink=cpy
