ATF punishing Medical Marijuana users

[thallub]

Actually, that would have been the Johnson administration.

The prohibition on ownership of firearms by users of illegal drugs was enacted in 1968.

Marijuana has been Schedule I since 1970.

Federal law trumps state law on drug policy since 2005.

Why does this suddenly come as a surprise to anyone?

Excellent post.
The ATF is not punishing anyone: The ATF is enforcing federal law. The US congress passed the bill outlawing the use of dope and a US president signed that bill into law. Those who don't like this law can petition their congressmen to change it.

 

[Tom Servo]

I think the reason surrounds the fact that the issue is an ongoing fight in this country, and the trends over the yrs have been maybe leaning towards the reversal of many trends that started pot on this downward spiral many decades ago.

There's nothing ongoing about it. Nobody has even brought this issue up to me in years. The ATF makes one announcement, and all of a sudden, it's front page news and everybody's outraged and yelling about it this week.

 

[Glenn E. Meyer]

1. We just concluded a long thread on this.
2. The issue was clearly answered. The Federal law is the one that counts.
3. The thread goes off the rails quickly with discussions of marijuana itself and/or long diatribes about the Founding Fathers that have little to do with the thread topic.

Since the question has been asked and answered several times plus leading to acrimony - my regrets, but Closed!