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US Supreme Court to weigh law barring drug users from owning guns (www.reuters.com)
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[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Straight from the ATF website:

who is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance (as defined in section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act, codified at 21 U.S.C. § 802)

If someone is using a controlled substance in accordance with a legitimate prescription they won't fall under this, but if they aren't, they will. So the way the government looks at this, two different people can have the same drug and one person is lawful while the other is unlawful.