Federal gun control laws have long barred "addicts" or "illegal drug users" from owning firearms, but a recent restatement of that law with explicit reference to medical marijuana patients is raising eyebrows -- and concerns.
photo courtesy Bruce Reith, South West Michigan Compassion Club
After a state appeals court effectively shut down dispensaries in Michigan, medical marijuana patients rallied in large numbers in Lansing, the state capital.
John Ray Wilson demonstration, 2009 (courtesy CMMNJ)
John Ray Wilson was sent to prison Wednesday in New Jersey for the crime of growing his own medicine. Meanwhile, medical marijuana is now legal there and state-registered dispensaries are about to open. Go figure.
Dispensaries are now a no-no in Michigan. (image via Wikimedia)
Even as medical marijuana distribution centers prepare to open in New Jersey, a Garden State MS patient who grew his own medicine is sadly preparing to spend the next five years in prison.
If advocates for medical marijuana in New Jersey needed a poster boy, they've found him in John Ray Wilson. The broke, unemployed, MS patient goes on trial next week for growing his own medicine. He's looking at 20 years in prison for something that might not even be a crime next month.