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Jackson County Sheriff Mike Winters has argued that issuing the license would violate federal law, specifically the Gun Control Act of 1968.

That argument was rejected by a trial court, the Oregon Court of Appeals and the Oregon Supreme Court in rulings that say state law on concealed handgun permits does not pre-empt federal law, the Mail Tribune reported Wednesday.

Cynthia Willis of Gold Hill acknowledged using medical marijuana when she filed her permit application with Winters in 2008, setting off the legal battle. She was issued a concealed handgun license after the sheriff lost in the Oregon Court of Appeals.

f/u to original topic. Looks like this case may be more about state/fed law than intoxication, but it kind of isn't.

Keith B wrote:I think it should fall into the intoxicated status of their state laws as it relates to firearms if they actually have a prescription for it. It should be just like carrying while taking any other prescription drug, and if you have loss of use of your faculties, then you should be charged with UCW.

werd.

And they've passed a similar law here in the "Great" NorthWest. They've also mandated (in Seattle) that MaryJ, and the possession and/or use thereof, while still technically a crime, should be the absolute lowest priority for an officer. Much further below urinating in public, and/or the ol' standard of robbery/murder.
you know, the crimes worth investigating. That's one of the few good things about the "progressive" nature up here.

oh, sure, there are all kinds of tree huggin' hippies around here just finding a way to get them their greenery, but the same is and can be said about Vicodin (which from a medical standpoint, I find much worse on the body).

Of course, there's the ol' argument about how the guy needs his weed to cope with the world, but when he's smoked out of his brain, he can't function, and therefore can't work, and therefore needs to be on welfare, and therefore can just sit at home and get blazed like he's Snoop Dogg.

but that's an argument for another day...