Guns and ganja: Supreme Court skeptical of federal law banning firearm possession for regular marijuana users

The Supreme Court expressed skepticism Monday about the federal government’s law banning people with a "habitual use" of marijuana from legally possessing a firearm, a Second Amendment case that could test the limits of creating exceptions to gun ownership.But in two hours of spirited oral arguments over "guns and ganja," several justices — while seeing marijuana smokers as potentially less serious — expressed concern about allowing drug addicts and other illegal substance users who might pose a danger to society to have those weapons.A narrow ruling appears likely and might apply only to the...

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