High court gives Oregonians OK to pack pistols and pot

[stevedeshazer]

MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from an Oregon sheriff who denied a concealed handgun license to a medical marijuana user.

The high court's decision means 54-year-old Gold Hill resident Cynthia Willis and others and can keep both their pistols and their pot.

Willis tells the Medford Mail Tribune her case has been a victory for medical marijuana users throughout Oregon.

Jackson County Sheriff Mike Winter argued that federal gun laws prohibited him from issuing a concealed gun permit to Willis in 2008.

edit to add link, much more: http://www.katu.com/news/local/High-court-Oregonians-can-keep-pot-and-pistols-137118853.html

[Permanut]

1. That's the way we do it up here in Oregon...

Where the men are men, and the sheep are scared.

and the guns and the users are both loaded.

[TheKentuckian]

2. Good deal

[stevedeshazer]

3. I just couldn't resist the headline.

There's a whole Cheech and Chong episode in this article. The jokes write themselves.

[i_sometimes]

4. As an OMMP grower...

I have no problem with this.
But I have never had a problem so I see
no need for a gun.
I do have sheep though.


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[stevedeshazer]

7. Sheep, not guns.

Seriously.

[i_sometimes]

11. I have a rather mean

Shetland! That's Lenny, he a Moorit Shetland. The other is Squiggy of course!

[0rganism]

5. so now that we know the 2nd amendment applies to marijuana users...

...can we get the same ruling for the 4th, 5th, and 6th amendments?

[stevedeshazer]

8. That would be nice.

I'm not holding my bong hit, errr, ummm, breath for that to happen.

[TlalocW]

6. So that's the reason

That those settlers were so eager to get there when I played, "Oregon Trail," in elementary and middle school.

TlalocW

[Tsiyu]

9. Good for the Supremes

It's a start....now if they'd allow the rest of the nation's suffering people the right to choose cannabis to treat their maladies - and the right to use it recreationally as some use alcohol if they so choose - we'd have an actual Supreme Court that values liberty over propaganda, greed and bigotry.

[Monk06]

10. Oregon gun threat, "Dude, shut up or I'll put a cap in your..in your..I'll complain to your ol lady"

[appal_jack]

12. K&R n/t