Guns and Drugs
BY Herschel Smith
1 month, 2 weeks ago
“Is it the government’s position that if I unlawfully use Ambien or I unlawfully use Xanax, then I become dangerous?” Justice Amy Coney Barrett asked a lawyer for the Trump administration, which is arguing to uphold the current law. “What is the government’s evidence that using marijuana a couple times a week makes someone dangerous?” she added.
It looks like the FedGov will lose this case and Hamani’s lawyers will win, despite not doing a very good job of the case.
If you’ve noticed, I haven’t linked or embedded much in the way of the gesticulations of the lawyers or the machinations of the courts recently.
I think most of this is smoke and mirrors. Unless and until the SCOTUS takes up an AR ban case and overturns those bad laws, nothing much has been accomplished.
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch just torched the government’s position.🔥
Noting that many Founding Fathers ran on rum and whiskey, Gorsuch also said that they would have scoffed at the idea that the Second Amendment would have disarmed them. https://t.co/g06pifkiK3 pic.twitter.com/MBIMm9Yeua
— Gun Owners of America (@GunOwners) March 2, 2026
On March 3, 2026 at 6:19 pm, X said:
“Is it the government’s position that if I unlawfully use Ambien or I unlawfully use Xanax, then I become dangerous?”
That is exactly the government’s position, but it’s disingenuous. They have in the past used it when they busted people with the wrong politics and accused them of being “terrorists” or “white supremacists.”
When the case falls apart in court, the government will then nail them on penny ante-bullshit like being in possession of Xanax or weed and guns.
It’s a sham to be able to nail people for something who have done nothing but appear on the government’s radar.
On March 4, 2026 at 6:08 pm, Dan said:
Odds are the court will favor occasional marijuana use because most of the court uses marijuana occasionally.