{"id":1387,"date":"2021-04-06T01:23:54","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T05:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougsdepot.com\/news-updates\/?p=1387"},"modified":"2021-04-17T16:50:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T20:50:30","slug":"guns-or-marijuana-youll-need-to-pick-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dougsdepot.com\/news-updates\/guns-or-marijuana-youll-need-to-pick-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Guns or marijuana? You’ll need to pick one"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By:<\/span> Jeff Slawson<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>
Posted at<\/span> 5:44 PM, Apr 05, 2021<\/div>
and last updated<\/span> 6:30 PM, Apr 05, 2021<\/span><\/div>
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) \u2014 Smoking recreational marijuana is now legal in New York State, but that doesn’t mean gun laws associated with marijuana have changed.<\/p>

According to Legal Expert Florina Altshiler, the Gun Control Act of 1968 prohibits the ownership of guns for anyone who is in possession of marijuana. That means, there must be a choice between being a gun owner or a marijuana smoker.<\/p>

“Anyone who uses marijuana is going to qualify as an unlawful user of an abused substance even though it is technically lawful,” Altshiler said.<\/p>

Background checks will still be required to purchase a gun. It is then that a person would have to notify the ATF of marijuana smoking. According to Altshiler, that is the only real way that this will be enforced.<\/p>

“Of course if you’re not convicted of a crime related to marijuana or have a medical card, there’s really no way of knowing if someone is or isn’t a marijuana user,” Altshiler said.<\/p>

With the federal Gun Control Act of 1968 superseding the state legalization of recreational marijuana, an arrest would only be for illegal possession of a firearm, not for marijuana.<\/p>

“There is no charge for marijuana possession,” Altshiler said, “of course, depending on quantity.”<\/p>

This is currently in effect and will also pertain to those who work in the marijuana industry.<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With recreational marijuana legal in New York State, there will have to be a choice between marijuana or gun ownership<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,15,1],"tags":[56,55],"class_list":["post-1387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-news","category-trending","category-uncategorized","tag-gun-laws","tag-marijuana"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dougsdepot.com\/news-updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ewscripps.brightspotcdn.com_-e1618692537668.png",400,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dougsdepot.com\/news-updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ewscripps.brightspotcdn.com_-e1618692537668-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dougsdepot.com\/news-updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ewscripps.brightspotcdn.com_-e1618692537668-300x169.png",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dougsdepot.com\/news-updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ewscripps.brightspotcdn.com_-e1618692537668.png",400,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/dougsdepot.com\/news-updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ewscripps.brightspotcdn.com_-e1618692537668.png",400,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dougsdepot.com\/news-updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ewscripps.brightspotcdn.com_-e1618692537668.png",400,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dougsdepot.com\/news-updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ewscripps.brightspotcdn.com_-e1618692537668.png",400,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/dougsdepot.com\/news-updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ewscripps.brightspotcdn.com_-e1618692537668.png",400,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/dougsdepot.com\/news-updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ewscripps.brightspotcdn.com_-e1618692537668.png",400,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/dougsdepot.com\/news-updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ewscripps.brightspotcdn.com_-e1618692537668.png",400,225,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/dougsdepot.com\/news-updates\/author\/admin\/"},"category_info":"Daily News<\/a> Trending<\/a> Uncategorized<\/a>","tag_info":"Uncategorized","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougsdepot.com\/news-updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougsdepot.com\/news-updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougsdepot.com\/news-updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougsdepot.com\/news-updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougsdepot.com\/news-updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1387"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/dougsdepot.com\/news-updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1532,"href":"https:\/\/dougsdepot.com\/news-updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions\/1532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougsdepot.com\/news-updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougsdepot.com\/news-updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougsdepot.com\/news-updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougsdepot.com\/news-updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}