Hawaii - medical marijuana, no guns
By Jacob Sullum. November 29th, 2017
Hawaii is one of 29 states that allow medical use of marijuana, but it is the only state that requires registration of all firearms. If you are familiar with the criteria that bar people from owning guns under federal law, you can probably surmise what the conjunction of these two facts means for patients who use cannabis as a medicine, which Hawaii allows them to do only if they register with the state. Some of them recently received a letter from Honolulu Police Chief Susan Ballard, instructing them to turn in their guns.
"Your medical marijuana use disqualifies you from ownership of firearms and ammunition," Ballard says in the November 13 letter, which Leafly obtained this week after Russ Belville noted it in his Marijuana Agenda podcast. "If you currently own or have any firearms, you have 30 days upon receipt of this letter to voluntarily surrender your firearms, permit, and ammunition to the Honolulu Police Department (HPD) or otherwise transfer ownership. A medical doctor's clearance letter is required for any future firearms applications or return of firearms from HPD evidence."
Although medical marijuana states typically register patients and/or issue them ID cards, Hawaii is unusual in making its registry both mandatory and accessible for purposes other than confirming eligibility, which is how Ballard knew where to send her warning.
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Any excuse for more restrictions it seems. Our Pacific state has long been very anti Second Amendment anyways but now is really laying it on with this approach. What is so absurd is that from a Federal point of view, opioids (pain killers) are in a similar prohibition category as marijuana and yet those can be legally prescribed to patients with no threat of taking their guns. So, why cannot a legally prescribed medical marijuana be also treated the same - a needed therapy for often very intractable conditions. Rights are being abused in all directions.
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