August 20, 2025
The Eleventh Circuit said Wednesday that a federal law disarming medical cannabis users likely ran afoul of the Second Amendment because it was inconsistent with the nation's history of gun regulation.
February 26, 2025
In at least a half-dozen recent and pending federal cases, cannabis users have challenged a federal policy that bars users of illegal drugs from gun ownership, pushing courts to consider whether marijuana use makes one inherently dangerous or mentally ill.
February 12, 2025
A group of Florida residents challenging the federal policy disarming medical cannabis users is pointing to a recent Eighth Circuit ruling that they say supports their gun-rights position as they appeal in the Eleventh Circuit.
July 16, 2024
A group of Floridians and the U.S. Department of Justice have advanced dueling interpretations of whether a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling on gun laws justifies stripping medical cannabis patients of their right to bear arms.
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.
July 10, 2023
Florida's attorney general has asked the state's highest court to block a marijuana legalization effort, the Ninth Circuit is mulling a lawsuit challenging local residency rules for cannabis operators, and medical marijuana patients are turning to the courts to defend their gun rights. Here are the major cannabis lawsuits Law360 is keeping an eye on for the second half of the year.
April 11, 2023
Three Floridians are asking the Eleventh Circuit to overturn an order dismissing their suit over a federal law that prohibits medical cannabis users from buying or owning guns, saying the trial court's reasoning creates a "dangerous" slippery slope that could strip cannabis patients of other rights.
March 28, 2023
Cannabis consumer advocacy organization NORML is urging the Eleventh Circuit to find that a law barring medical marijuana patients from possessing guns is an unconstitutional violation of the Second Amendment.
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.