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Seamus Petrie

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I once worked w/ a union member, libertarian in his politics but also a super responsible rule-follower. He had chronic pain & wanted to grow his own medical cannabis (legal in WA). He also owned guns - licensed, permitted, secured. The very image of a responsible gun owner. 1/

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Anyway, he had chronic pain, and wanted to grow and smoke his own (low-THC, high-CBD!) weed, in line w/ WA state law. But federal gun law prohibits anyone who uses cannabis from owning a gun. So he couldn’t keep his guns and use cannabis w/o committing a federal crime. 2/

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