The Justice Department has struck again. As part of the ongoing Florida litigation over whether medicinal cannabis users should also have gun ownership rights, the DOJ recently received further comment when the DOJ claimed that MMJ users were inherently dangerous and therefore disabled to own firearms. reported marijuana moment.

“[The DOJ is] now he compares cannabis users to domestic abusers with a ‘proneness’ to violence,” wrote Kyle Jaeger.

Attorneys representing Florida’s Secretary of Agriculture Nicki Friedwho is behind a second amendment lawsuit against the Biden administration, filed a response letter earlier this month after the Justice Department asked federal court to do so deny the case. The plaintiffs requested a hearing in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida.

In its first motion to dismiss the lawsuit, the DOJ cited offensive “parallels to previous gun bans for groups such as Native Americans, Catholics, beggars and those who refuse to take an oath of allegiance to the government, and people who shoot while intoxicated.” “

Now the DOJ has confirmed its stance by putting nonviolent cannabis offenses in the same category as domestic violence. The aim of the settlement was to justify the disarmament of the accused.

“Marijuana users also engage in criminal activity that makes gun ownership dangerous, albeit for different reasons (ie, the propensity for violence in domestic violence criminals and the debilitating effects of marijuana on marijuana users),” according to the DOJ new filing says.

To plaintiffs’ argument that cannabis users “can safely use a firearm…unless they use marijuana or are under the influence of marijuana,” the DOJ responded that “a marijuana user who owns a firearm will have access to that firearm, when using marijuana. And since marijuana impairs judgment, there is a risk that she will fail to exercise sound judgment and use the firearm while impaired.

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