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Originally Posted by Metal god
If you have a firearm or many lawfully for many years and one day your doctor prescribes medical marijuana or one of its other derivatives and you fill that prescription , you have become a prohibited person ?
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Perhaps not at that moment, but you certainly do once you use it.
The law reads that a firearm or ammunition may not be possessed by "a person who is an unlawful user of or who is addicted to a controlled substance." Once you take a puff, you are definitely a "user."
Of course, if you have possession of and a prescription for medical marijuana, a jury may certainly find that you could be considered a "user" given your obvious intent, even if you have not yet used the stuff in the most literal sense.
This will remain so until Congress either changes the law categorizing marijuana as a Schedule I controlled substance, or changes the legal definition of a prohibited person.