This article features a video from William Kirk of Washington Gun Law, who provides further discussion on the second case accepted by the Supreme Court.
The nation’s high court has voted to hear arguments in a case concerning the legal intersection between the right to keep and bear arms and marijuana use in its upcoming term.
Last Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a six-page orders list that turned away more than 90 petitions. The justices granted hearings in just three cases, with one, United States v. Hemani, of importance to the Second Amendment.
Ali Danial Hemani’s case came to the court via the U.S. Fifth Circuit and poses the question,”Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(3), the federal statute that prohibits the possession of firearms by a person who ‘is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance,’ violates the Second Amendment as applied to respondent.”
The Justice Department is appealing the Fifth Circuit’s January ruling that dismissed a grand jury charge against Hemani of possessing a firearm while being an unlawful user of a controlled substance, with the FBI finding a 9mm handgun and small amounts of marijuana and cocaine during a search of his home, although he was not under the influence at the time of the search. He did, however, tell authorities he used marijuana about every other day.
By Chris Eger

