CANNABIS PATIENTS FOR THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS
Political Action Committee
Advocating to repeal the ban on firearm possession by users of state-legal medicinal marijuana.
15 years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine.
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That is the sentence risked by anyone who held an active medicinal marijuana license in the past twelve months and dares to possess any firearm—a policy the government defends by literally claiming thee power to strip constitutional rights for any reason it chooses. As outrageous as this is, we must welcome the opportunity to show that tyranny is nonpartisan and can only be defeated in like manner. Democrats overwhelmingly support the legalization of cannabis, Republicans have made guns part of their identity, and each party claims to champion liberty with more passion than the other, yet they collaborate in allowing this travesty to continue. By loudly challenging them to back their rhetoric with action, however, we can begin the process of permanently correcting such disregard for their constituents. You can help immediately by contributing here.
Consider These Facts
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40 states have legalized medicinal use and/or decriminalized general use.
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Kamala Harris pledged to fully legalize marijuana as president, House Democrats voted to do so almost unanimously, and nearly half of Senate Democrats have formally agreed.
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Gun ownership has been dramatically rising—the number of background checks per year doubled from 2009 to 2019 even before an unprecedented spike driven largely by traditionally Democratic demographics—and amid this torrent of new guns, murder is plummeting.
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More than eight million Americans acknowledged using physician-prescribed cannabis in 2020, and the annual rate of increase indicates that the current number of patients could be over 13 million.
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40-50% of Americans are politically independent, 29% of whom report being gun owners; based on the percentage of adults in the current population, the number of independent gun owners might be greater than 38 million.
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The number of votes that decided the 2024 presidential election was less than 230,000.
Lawmakers should be tripping over each other to axe
this senseless restriction, so why aren’t they? ​
Republicans, as bizarre as it seems, quite simply appear bound by tradition to fight a culture war against 1930s “reefer madness” at any cost.
Democrats’ share of the blame requires far more explanation, as it is fundamentally the product of a coordinated disinformation campaign by depraved authoritarians posing as historical experts. Overly dramatic as it sounds, such people have spent decades infiltrating academia to promote a baseless lie: that the right to keep and bear arms was viewed for most of American history as protecting only government organizations.
The overwhelming majority of Americans rejected this so-called “collective right” even before District of Columbia v. Heller did in 2008, but in just the past few years:
Sen. Cory Booker deemed Heller an “example of the Supreme Court’s activist conservative majority imposing its ideology on the American people.”
Hillary Clinton said, “The Supreme Court is wrong on the Second Amendment. And I am going to make that case every chance I get.”
The Supreme Court of Hawaii unanimously insisted that “the Second Amendment provided a collective right” which only “protects a state’s right to have a militia.”
The top Democrat on Congress’ Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government, after being reminded that Heller “declared the Second Amendment to be an individual constitutional right,” stated, “I think we’ll all disagree on that one.”
The president of gun control organization Brady lamented that “politicians currently promote a false interpretation of the Second Amendment.”
Federal judge Carlton W. Reeves, Chairman of the US Sentencing Commission, issued an order based in part on the “glaring disagreement” about “whether the Second Amendment confers a broad, individual right to bear arms, or a more limited, collective right.”
Major gun control group March for our Lives complained that " many Americans think that the 2A has always been a stalwart protector of an individual right” while instead "the Second Amendment as we know it was created—not discovered—in 2008.”
Sen. Chris Murphy wrote that “the 2nd Amendment is about collective, not personal defense.”
The most prominent gun control advocate in the country instructed his million-plus social media followers that the Second Amendment is “essentially a right to a national guard.”
Despite being repudiated by both the American public and the Supreme Court, “collective right” clearly still exerts a powerful influence on policy. It is what allowed federal courts to validate every gun control law challenged from the mid-20th century until 2008, yet those same restrictions are still routinely upheld despite the night-and-day shift from a legal framework in which civilians have no arms rights to one in which they do. It's critical to understand that this continued devotion to “collective right” not only enables the ban on firearm possession by cannabis patients, but would allow an expanded Supreme Court to overturn Heller and endorse a ban on all firearms.
This persistent myth bars any further compromise, and those seeking reasonable regulation should want to disavow the extremists who rob them of all credibility—rational citizens who truly want "common sense" can’t fathom why gun owners won’t agree, failing to realize how shamelessly professional anti-gun activists are distorting history. Luckily for all but those about to be exposed as frauds, a massive trove of new evidence finally shatters “collective right” beyond question. After seeing for yourself, please continue here to help reverse its most appalling results.