Washington County plans to appeal a judge’s decision ordering Sheriff Rob Gordon to grant concealed weapons permits to three men who lost them because they are medical marijuana users.
Sheriff’s officials say they need clarification on whether federal law prohibiting illegal drug users from possessing handguns trumps state law, which allows Oregonians to legally smoke marijuana to treat pain.
The county also wants to make sure it won’t be liable if a medical marijuana user receives a weapons permit and then commits a crime with the weapon.
“We’re trying to get a ruling from the courts to tell us what to do on this,” Cmdr. Willie Bose said.
Leland Berger, an attorney for the men who prevailed in a May 15 decision, said the law is clear on the issue.
“Why is the sheriff only discriminating against sick and dying people?” Berger said. “What the heck is that?”
Why indeed. It isn’t as if pot smokers are known to be violent or irrational is it? Just ask Shannon Currence, or Snoop Dogg. Pot smokers are no more likely to misuse a firearm than anyone else, right? Just ask the next carload of gangbangers you see if they’re more likely to shoot someone while stoned.
Let’s get real. We don’t let people drive while drunk in this country, but there’s a question as to whether we’ll let people get high and carry around a handgun? This is absolutely asinine.
“Let’s get real. We don’t let people drive while drunk in this country, but there’s a question as to whether we’ll let people get high and carry around a handgun? This is absolutely asinine.”
What’s asinine is that we let people get drunk and carry handguns, but it is illegal for a “current user” of cannabis to even touch a gun at all even when NOT high.
As for that monster Shannon Currence who beat the living hell out of her son, there is no evidence pot had anything to do with it. The cops simply found paraphernalia in her house.
Are you retarded? ALL states make it illegal to carry in places where alcohol is served so and public drunkenness is illegal so how is what you said relevant?
If pot so great why are people like you trolling two year old posts crying like a coke addict who got cut off?
Here’s a better question; explain the 420 for sex ads on Craigslist and how that fits into your theory that pot smokers are just like everyone else.
Really how many pot smokers do you know that are really aggressive people? The only reason it is illegal in the first place, was racially motivated against Mexican immigrants and blacks in the south. It is all propaganda.
As a Black man I find it offensive that you think we all do drugs but whatever.
As to your point I have covered at least 14 cases of pot smokers raping infants, dozens of pot smokers stealing or robbing their friends and one pot smoker who was a cop killer. When I was young and actually knew some pot smokers all were ready to fight at a moments notice. Of course they were metal heads and not pussies like you guys but still…very aggressive.