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Supreme Court sides with a Texas man who says it’s not a crime for marijuana users to have guns <p>The Supreme Court has sided with a Texas man who argued that it's not illegal for marijuana users to have guns.</p>

Supreme Court sides with a Texas man who says it’s not a crime for marijuana users to have guns <p>WASHINGTON &#8212; The Supreme Court sided Thursday with a Texas marijuana user who wants to legally own a gun, the latest in a line of firearm cases from a court that has expanded gun rights.</p>

🟢 BREAKING: SCOTUS upholds constitutional rights of cannabis consumers to legally possess firearms. A major victory for cannabis freedom and a powerful affirmation that rights don't disappear because someone uses marijuana. 🔗 Read more: norml.org/blog/2026/06... #NORML #marijuana #cannabis #2A

NPR News Supreme Court sides with marijuana user who was barred from owning guns NPR | By Grady Martin , Nina Totenberg Published June 18, 2026 at 7:14 AM PDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Drew Angerer / Getty Images The U.S. Supreme Court The Supreme Court found Thursday that the government's prosecution of a marijuana user from Texas for owning guns was inconsistent with the Second Amendment. The decision was unanimous. "The Court's decision is narrow," Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote . "It does not address efforts to ban addicts or those presently intoxicated from possessing a firearm; other prophylactic laws Congress might adopt after determining that users of a particular drug pose a special risk of misusing firearms ... provision disarming individuals convicted of felonies; or whether the government could bring a prosecution ... accompanied by individualized proof that the defendant's drug use renders him a danger to himself or others, or proof that a certain drug always renders its users dangerous." The case stems from the arrest of Ali Hemani. In 2022, federal agents found a pistol and 60 grams of marijuana in a search of Hemani's home. When asked, Hemani …

Supreme Court sides with marijuana user who was barred from owning ... Supreme Court sides with a marijuana user who was barred from owning guns NPR | By Grady Martin , Nina Totenberg Published June 18, 2026 at 10:14 AM EDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Drew Angerer / Getty Images The U.S. Supreme Court The U.S. Supreme Court found Thursday that the government's prosecution of a marijuana user from Texas for owning guns was inconsistent with the Second Amendment. The decision was unanimous. "The Court's decision is narrow," Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote . "It does not address efforts to ban addicts or those presently intoxicated from possessing a firearm; other prophylactic laws Congress might adopt after determining that users of a particular drug pose a special risk of misusing firearms ... provision disarming individuals convicted of felonies; or whether the government could bring a prosecution ... accompanied by individualized proof that the defendant's drug use renders him a danger to himself or others, or proof that a certain drug always renders its users dangerous." The case stems from the arrest of Ali Hemani. In 2022, federal agents found a pistol and …

Supreme Court sides with marijuana user who was barred from owning guns The court ruled that the law used to prosecute a marijuana user violated his Second Amendment right to bear arms and is unconstitutionally vague.

NPR News Supreme Court sides with marijuana user who was barred from owning guns NPR | By Grady Martin , Nina Totenberg Published June 18, 2026 at 7:14 AM PDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Drew Angerer / Getty Images The U.S. Supreme Court The Supreme Court found Thursday that the government's prosecution of a marijuana user from Texas for owning guns was inconsistent with the Second Amendment. The decision was unanimous. "The Court's decision is narrow," Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote . "It does not address efforts to ban addicts or those presently intoxicated from possessing a firearm; other prophylactic laws Congress might adopt after determining that users of a particular drug pose a special risk of misusing firearms ... provision disarming individuals convicted of felonies; or whether the government could bring a prosecution ... accompanied by individualized proof that the defendant's drug use renders him a danger to himself or others, or proof that a certain drug always renders its users dangerous." The case stems from the arrest of Ali Hemani. In 2022, federal agents found a pistol and 60 grams of marijuana in a search of Hemani's home. When asked, Hemani …

Ketanji Brown Jackson melts down over SCOTUS ruling against The court's protection of Americans' Second Amendment rights does not sit well with the liberal justices on the bench. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled four years ago inNew York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruenthat the Second and 14th Amendments protect Americans' right to carry handguns outside of their homes for self-defense. Hawaii Democrats came up with an apparent workaround to curb gun rights in their state, passing a law in 2023 that banned the carrying of guns onto private property without verbal or written consent of the property owner. Those who ran afoul of this lawfacedup to a year in prison. 'Hawaii's law does not restrict the right to carry a gun at all,' Jackson wrote. This didn't sit well with a trio of Maui County residents with concealed-carry permits who, with the Hawaii Firearms Coalition, sued on the basis of the understandingarticulatedagain by Solicitor General D. John Sauer last year: "Because most property owners do not post signs either allowing or forbidding guns, Hawaii’s default rule functions as a near-complete ban on public carry." To the great chagrin of liberal Justice Ketan…

Supreme Court limits power of federal government to disarm drug users CNN National Jonathan Ernst/Reuters via CNN Newsource The Supreme Court on June 18 curbed the power of the federal government to disarm a frequent marijuana user, limiting the scope of a law enacted during the 1960s to keep weapons out of the hands of Americans who regularly use drugs. By CNN Published June 18, 2026 10:54 am Originally Published: 18 JUN 26 10:05 ET Updated: 18 JUN 26 10:55 ET By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court Thursday curbed the power of the federal government to disarm a frequent marijuana user , limiting the scope of a law enacted during the 1960s to keep weapons out of the hands of Americans who regularly use drugs. In an unanimous opinion written by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the court ruled that the government’s prosecution of a man who used pot was inconsistent with the Second Amendment. The court settled the case in a way that was exceedingly limited, reserving broader questions about whether federal prosecutors could target people who are addicted to drugs or whose use of drugs makes them a danger to themselves or others. The slimness of the decision was underscored by the fact th…

BREAKING: The Supreme Court ruled the government can’t charge someone with a felony for owning a firearm stored securely at home merely because the person uses marijuana. With this ruling, the court curbs the ability of elected officials to impose arbitrary and discriminatory penalties.

BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨 The Supreme Court Thursday curbed the power of the federal government to disarm a frequent marijuana user, limiting the scope of a law enacted during the 1960s to keep weapons out of the hands of Americans who regularly use drugs. www.cnn.com/2026/06/18/p...

BREAKING: Supreme Court unanimously upholds Second Amendment rights of man convicted under a federal law barring occasional illegal drug users from having a handgun www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

NPR News Supreme Court sides with marijuana user who was barred from owning guns NPR | By Grady Martin , Nina Totenberg Published June 18, 2026 at 8:14 AM MDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Drew Angerer / Getty Images The U.S. Supreme Court The Supreme Court found Thursday that the government's prosecution of a marijuana user for owning guns was inconsistent with the Second Amendment. The decision was unanimous. "The Court's decision is narrow," Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote . "It does not address efforts to ban addicts or those presently intoxicated from possessing a firearm; other prophylactic laws Congress might adopt after determining that users of a particular drug pose a special risk of misusing firearms ... provision disarming individuals convicted of felonies; or whether the government could bring a prosecution ... accompanied by individualized proof that the defendant's drug use renders him a danger to himself or others, or proof that a certain drug always renders its users dangerous." The case stems from the arrest of Ali Hemani. In 2022, federal agents found a pistol and 60 grams of marijuana in a search of Hemani's home. When asked, Hemani told the ag…

NPR News Supreme Court sides with marijuana user who was barred from owning guns NPR | By Grady Martin , Nina Totenberg Published June 18, 2026 at 8:14 AM MDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Drew Angerer / Getty Images The U.S. Supreme Court The Supreme Court found Thursday that the government's prosecution of a marijuana user for owning guns was inconsistent with the Second Amendment. The decision was unanimous. "The Court's decision is narrow," Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote . "It does not address efforts to ban addicts or those presently intoxicated from possessing a firearm; other prophylactic laws Congress might adopt after determining that users of a particular drug pose a special risk of misusing firearms ... provision disarming individuals convicted of felonies; or whether the government could bring a prosecution ... accompanied by individualized proof that the defendant's drug use renders him a danger to himself or others, or proof that a certain drug always renders its users dangerous." The case stems from the arrest of Ali Hemani. In 2022, federal agents found a pistol and 60 grams of marijuana in a search of Hemani's home. When asked, Hemani told the ag…

🔴 BREAKING: The Supreme Court has unanimously struck down the federal gun ban as applied to a Texas marijuana user, handing the Trump administration a clean loss and sharply limiting the government’s ability to automatically disarm people for unlawful drug use.

BREAKING: Supreme Court justices ruled that the government cannot bar gun ownership for a marijuana user solely because he used a controlled substance, saying that the prosecution of a man for owning guns as an admitted marijuana user was inconsistent with the 2nd Amendment. www.law360.com/artic...

Supreme Court sides with Texas man who challenged law barring drug ... Washington — The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled in favor of a Texas man who challenged a federal law that bars certain drug users from having firearms. In a unanimous decision in the case U.S. v. Hemani, the justices found that Ali Hemani's prosecution for having a firearm while he was an unlawful drug user is inconsistent the Second Amendment. Hemani allegedly was only an occasional user of marijuana when the FBI found a handgun at his Texas home in 2022. The ruling from the Supreme Court is narrow, since the justices did not strike down the law at the center of the case in its entirety. Instead, the high court said the government cannot automatically disarm a person who uses marijuana a few times a week. Justice Neil Gorsuch authored the majority opinion for the court. The government, he wrote, "asks us to conclude that anyone who regularly uses marijuana is categorically violent and dangerous without any further showing. All based on little more than its current say-so, one at odds with its own regulatory actions. And affording the government that kind of 'broad power to designate any group as dangerous and…

Supreme Court Limits the Federal Gun Ban on Drug Users The Trace Go beyond the headlines. Your weekly briefing on gun violence. Share Copy link Share on Facebook Email a link to this page Republish The Supreme Court on June 18 narrowed the federal ban on gun possession by people who use illegal drugs, ruling that the government must show that their drug use poses a risk of dangerous behavior. In a unanimous 19-page decision, the court held that the federal law was unconstitutional when applied to an occasional marijuana user. The government “asks us to conclude that anyone who regularly uses marijuana is categorically violent and dangerous,” Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in the majority opinion in United States v. Hemani . “And affording the government that kind of ‘broad power to designate any group as dangerous and thereby disqualify its members from having a gun’ would risk allowing it to ‘quickly swallow’ the Second Amendment.” At the same time, Gorsuch wrote that the ban may still constitutionally apply to users of marijuana and other drugs if the government can show that their drug use makes them a threat to public safety. “In many respects, this case is a narrow one,” he wrote…

NPR News Supreme Court sides with marijuana user who was barred from owning guns NPR | By Grady Martin , Nina Totenberg Published June 18, 2026 at 7:14 AM PDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Drew Angerer / Getty Images The U.S. Supreme Court The Supreme Court found Thursday that the government's prosecution of a marijuana user from Texas for owning guns was inconsistent with the Second Amendment. The decision was unanimous. "The Court's decision is narrow," Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote . "It does not address efforts to ban addicts or those presently intoxicated from possessing a firearm; other prophylactic laws Congress might adopt after determining that users of a particular drug pose a special risk of misusing firearms ... provision disarming individuals convicted of felonies; or whether the government could bring a prosecution ... accompanied by individualized proof that the defendant's drug use renders him a danger to himself or others, or proof that a certain drug always renders its users dangerous." The case stems from the arrest of Ali Hemani. In 2022, federal agents found a pistol and 60 grams of marijuana in a search of Hemani's home. When asked, Hemani …

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Texas man challenging a federal law banning drug users from owning guns, dealing a blow to the Trump administration's defense of the 1968 law. 🔎 Fuente: CBS News 🔗 https://www.cbsnews.com/video/breaking-down-supreme-courts-ruling-drug-u...

US Supreme Court eases restrictions on drug users owning firearms Court sides unanimously with marijuana user who argued law barring him from owning firearms violated US Constitution.

NPR News Supreme Court sides with marijuana user who was barred from owning guns NPR | By Grady Martin , Nina Totenberg Published June 18, 2026 at 8:14 AM MDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Drew Angerer / Getty Images The U.S. Supreme Court The Supreme Court found Thursday that the government's prosecution of a marijuana user for owning guns was inconsistent with the Second Amendment. The decision was unanimous. "The Court's decision is narrow," Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote . "It does not address efforts to ban addicts or those presently intoxicated from possessing a firearm; other prophylactic laws Congress might adopt after determining that users of a particular drug pose a special risk of misusing firearms ... provision disarming individuals convicted of felonies; or whether the government could bring a prosecution ... accompanied by individualized proof that the defendant's drug use renders him a danger to himself or others, or proof that a certain drug always renders its users dangerous." The case stems from the arrest of Ali Hemani. In 2022, federal agents found a pistol and 60 grams of marijuana in a search of Hemani's home. When asked, Hemani told the ag…

Supreme Court sides with marijuana user stripped of gun rights TheU.S. Supreme Courtruled in favor of a marijuana user on Thursday by limiting the application of a federal law that bars drug users from owning guns, finding that certain prosecutions under the measure intrude on the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment right to "keep and bear arms." The justices, in 9-0 ruling, upheld a lower court's decision to dismiss an illegal gun possession charge brought under the law at issue against Ali Hemani, an American-Pakistani dual citizen and resident of Texas who told authorities he was a regular marijuana user. President Donald Trump's administration had defended the law in the case. Conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch, who authored the ruling, said the government had not "carried its conceded burden of showing its prosecution of Mr. Hemani complies with the Second Amendment." A 1968 federal law called the Gun Control Act makes possession of a firearm illegal for anyone who "is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance." That gun restriction led to a 2024conviction of Hunter Biden, who later that yearreceived a pardonfrom his father, then-President Joe Biden. Pr…

BREAKING: The US Supreme Court sided with a gun-rights challenge to a federal law that bars drug users from owning firearms in the latest test of the US Constitution's Second Amendment right to ‘keep and bear arms’ reut.rs/4vmFzQq

Supreme Court sides with a Texas man who says it's not a crime for ... The U.S. Supreme Court is seen, June 11, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File) WASHINGTON (AP) —The Supreme Courtsided Thursday with a Texas marijuana user who wants to legally own a gun, the latest in a line of firearm cases from a court that has expanded gun rights. The justices, in a unanimous decision, sided withAli Danial Hemani, who argued that a law barring guns from anyone who uses drugs illegally violates the Second Amendment. Hemani wasn’t charged with any other crimes or accused of using the weapon under the influence. Marijuana clones are shown for sale at Tropicanna Dispensary and Weed Delivery in Santa Ana, California, on April 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) The decision is a loss for President Donald Trump’s Republican administration, which had defended the 1968 law despite arguing against other gun restrictions. The measure was also used ina case against Hunter Biden, who was convicted in Wilmington, Delaware, of buying a gun while addicted to cocaine in 2018. He was laterpardoned by his father, then-President Joe Biden, a Democrat. Hunter Biden departs from federal court on…