October 23, 2025
A Florida federal judge on Thursday agreed to pause a case weighing the constitutionality of a federal ban on medical marijuana patients owning guns after the U.S. Supreme Court recently said it would take up a case on a similar question.
October 05, 2023
An Eleventh Circuit panel on Thursday pushed attorneys for the federal government and a group of Floridians to define precisely whether the federally unlawful, but state-sanctioned, use of cannabis justified stripping users of the right to bear arms.
January 30, 2023
The newly-elected Commissioner of Agriculture for Florida has pulled out of an Eleventh Circuit appeal of a suit over the Second Amendment rights of medical cannabis users.
November 18, 2022
Florida's commissioner of agriculture, who is suing so medical cannabis patients are able to buy firearms, is taking her claims to the Eleventh Circuit after a district court judge tossed the case, saying the government can prohibit people from owning guns who are violating federal law.
November 04, 2022
A Florida federal judge on Friday tossed a lawsuit challenging a federal rule that bars medical cannabis patients from owning firearms, saying that even if federal law enforcers are prevented from cracking down on medical marijuana, that does not make it legal.
September 22, 2022
The U.S. Department of Justice is urging a Florida federal court to throw out a suit challenging a DOJ rule that medical cannabis users don't have Second Amendment rights, saying that even if the federal government is not currently spending money to prosecute federal laws against cannabis, the possession of it is still a federal crime.
September 08, 2022
The Florida agriculture commissioner and three residents have slammed a bid by the U.S. Department of Justice to throw out their suit challenging a rule holding that participants in medical cannabis programs don't have Second Amendment rights, saying the DOJ's arguments comparing those in the program to felons is "insulting."
August 08, 2022
The U.S. Department of Justice told a Florida federal judge on Monday that the Sunshine State's medical marijuana patients had no Second Amendment right to possess firearms since they were breaking a federal law.
April 22, 2022
The commissioner of the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and three Florida residents have sued the U.S. Department of Justice, saying a federal rule barring medical marijuana patients from possessing firearms is unconstitutional.