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The Supreme Court will decide if marijuana users may be barred from owning guns

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What does it mean to be an unlawful user of marijuana? | Leonardo Munoz/AFP via Getty Images On March 2, the justices will hear their second major Second Amendment case of the Supreme Court’s current term. United States v. Hemani asks whether Congress may make it a crime for an “unlawful user” of marijuana to possess a gun. If you are a lawyer trying to guess how the Court will rule in this case, good luck with that. The Court’s Second Amendment precedents are as unsalvageable as they are confusing. At least in theory, they require judges to ask whether a modern-day gun law is suffici...

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