{"id":712263,"date":"2026-06-18T21:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T21:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/712263\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T21:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T21:38:07","slug":"government-cant-restrict-gun-ownership-over-marijuana-use-supreme-court-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/712263\/","title":{"rendered":"Government can\u2019t restrict gun ownership over marijuana use, Supreme Court rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"NMXPVYB2G5DQ7GHZOUTYOSTEWI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The Supreme Court on Thursday found that a Texas man could not be prosecuted under a federal law that prohibits regular users of controlled substances, such as marijuana, from possessing firearms. <\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"AVGWE4L7KJGGPKVN4D5H6QHJBU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">In a unanimous decision, the justices found that the law\u2019s \u201cunlawful user\u201d provision, as it applied to the man\u2019s regular marijuana use, was inconsistent with the Constitution\u2019s right to bear arms. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Supreme Court on Thursday found that a Texas man could not be prosecuted under a federal law&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-712263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}