Given that Vladdy “The Laddy” Putin has installed his employee in the White House, and a bunch of other traitors in Congress and on the Supreme Court, members of our magazine team realized we need to arm up.

Problem is, the federal government deliberately made it illegal for anyone who uses any amount of marijuana to legally buy a gun.

Doesn’t matter if you live in a legalized recreational marijuana or medical marijuana state—cannabis is illegal by federal law, and federal law governs gun ownership.

You may recall when Joe Biden was president, he threw his son Hunter under the bus, appointing a special prosecutor who charged Hunter with gun-possession felonies.

One felony was because Hunter was a self-identified illegal drug user and drug addict when he purchased a firearm. Would-be gun purchasers have to fill out a federal form. The form asks if you’re mentally ill, a drug addict, or illegal drug user. He said no to those questions, and that’s a federal crime.

One of our team members recently went to a gun store to get a gun. He lives in a state that issues medical marijuana cards as official identification. Stupidly, he pulled his medical marijuana card out of his wallet in the gun shop. The gun seller saw it and said, “No way. The feds told us specifically, if you have a medical marijuana card, you can’t buy a gun.”

Another team member, busted for growing marijuana illegally, was charged with a federal gun crime after local police discovered he owned a Glock 9. He was also charged with “unlawful possession of a firearm in commission of a felony.” Marijuana growing was the felony.

Just in case you’re wondering about the actual law responsible for blocking marijuana users from being able to defend themselves with firearms, here’s a summary:

Federally Prohibited Persons (including marijuana users)

18 USC 922 (g) – Federally Prohibited Persons

The Federal Gun Control Act of 1968 and the Federal Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act of 1997 make it illegal for a person who fits into any of the following categories to ship, transport, receive or possess firearms or ammunition. These laws prevent a state from issuing a concealed carry license/permit as it would be illegal for people who fit in these categories, by federal law, to own or possess a gun.

Persons who have been convicted in any court of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding 1 year

Fugitives from justice

Persons who are unlawful users of or are addicted to narcotics or any other controlled substances (including medical marijuana, see below)

Persons adjudicated as a mental defective or who have been committed to a mental institution (although relief may be available under the 2008 NICS Improvement Act)

Aliens illegally in the U.S.

Military veterans discharged under dishonorable conditions

Persons who have renounced U.S. citizenship

Persons convicted in any court of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence

Persons subject to a court order that restrains them from harassing, stalking or threatening an intimate partner or child of such intimate partner or person, or engaging in other conduct that would place an intimate partner in reasonable fear of bodily injury to the partner or child, with limited exceptions, provided the court order:

was issued after a hearing of which such person received actual notice, and at which such person had the opportunity to participate; and

includes a finding that such person represents a credible threat to the physical safety of such intimate partner or child; or

by its terms explicitly prohibits the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against such intimate partner or child that would reasonably be expected to cause bodily injury.

18 USC 921 (a)(33)(B) – Exceptions

(ii) A person shall not be considered to have been convicted of such an offense for purposes of this chapter if the conviction has been expunged or set aside, or is an offense for which the person has been pardoned or has had civil rights restored (if the law of the applicable jurisdiction provides for the loss of civil rights under such an offense) unless the pardon, expungement or restoration of civil rights expressly provides that the person may not ship, transport, possess or receive firearms.

Federal law prohibits medical marijuana users from possessing or buying firearms and ammunition — even if state law allows the drug’s use. An individual can’t have both licenses. Under federal law, any marijuana user is an unlawful user of a controlled substance. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld this rule. Marijuana in any form is illegal under federal law. Users of marijuana are prohibited persons. Checking ‘no’ on question 11(e) on the Form 4473 would be a lie if you use marijuana, which is a federal offense.

There is a tiny glimmer of hope for marijuana users who want to purchase guns, but it comes through a sketchy portal.

The United States Supreme Court, the same one that stole the presidency from Al Gore in 2000 and gave Donald Trump total immunity from prosecution for his many crimes, recently agreed to hear a case challenging the firearms ban.

The case involves a dual citizen of the United States and Pakistan charged with unlawfully owning a pistol, because he smoked marijuana. The FBI had been monitoring Ali Danial Hemani because of his alleged connection to Iranian Islamist terrorist organizations.

The government alleges Hemani used and sold promethazine, an antihistamine that can boost an opioid high, and used cocaine, although he was prosecuted based only on his marijuana use.

Hemani claims he should not be prosecuted for a gun crime because he allegedly was not “on drugs” when the FBI found the pistol in his Lewisville, Texas, home.

As you may already know, the MAGA Party worships the second amendment and guns, and wants unregulated gun ownership for everyone, including crazy people, domestic abusers, child molesters, people under 18, insurrectionists.

That’s why it’s surprising that the Trump administration directed its attorneys to challenge a recent New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that the gun-drug law can’t be applied to Hemani, after the Supreme Court ruled in 2022 that gun prohibitions must be grounded in history that is “consistent with our tradition of gun regulation.”

The appeals court had ruled that while “history and tradition” support “some limits on a presently intoxicated person’s right to carry a weapon, they do not support disarming a sober person based solely on past substance usage.”

Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) is arguing that at the time America was created, laws did restrict rights of habitual drinkers, even when they were sober.

“And for about as long as legislatures have regulated drugs, they have prohibited the possession of arms by drug users and addicts—not just by persons under the influence of drugs,” the DOJ said in appealing the 5th Circuit’s ruling.

Since the federal government created its background-check system for firearms in 1998, the federal restriction on drug users has stopped more gun sales than any regulation other than the ban on felons and fugitives owning weapons.

Hemani’s lawyers say the government’s interpretation of law makes no sense, because an estimated 19% of Americans have used marijuana and about 32% own a firearm. They said millions of drug-using Americans are violating a law that could put them behind bars for up to 15 years.

In addition to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, two other appeals courts have issued rulings that restrict use of the federal ban. Both courts ruled there should be individualized assessments of defendants’ drug use to determine if their gun rights could be restricted.

The Supreme Court is expected to debate the ruling in Hemani’s case next year and issue a ruling by the end of June 2026.

You might be wondering what you can do to defend yourself if you’re a marijuana user unable to legally purchase or possess a gun. Our team has been researching that intensely, due to increasing violence and potential for a second Civil War caused by Trump/MAGA.

Unfortunately, there aren’t any weapons or methods even close to the efficacy of firearms for self-defense. There are more guns in America than citizens, and many MAGAs are hunters and gun fetishists eager to use their guns against liberals and progressives. The best self-defense tactics for the disarmed marijuana user are:

  • Get super-fit, then get trained in street defense martial arts.
  • There are paintball-gun type fake guns that have marginal usefulness, if any.
  • Tasers are slightly useful.
  • Crossbows may work in some situations, but require immense skill to use, and are ponderous to carry or use in an emergency situation.
  • Knives, swords, tactical canes and walking sticks, brass knuckles, pepper/bear spray can be useful, but you have to be trained to use them well, or else they’re likely to do you more harm than good.
  • Pellet guns, especially powered by C02 cartridges, are somewhat useful.
  • Body armor and helmet.

The good news is the main way to defend yourself is something many marijuana growers are already doing: staying invisible, not engaging with the outside world.

The best way to avoid being harmed by others is to not be around them. All of us on the Growing Marijuana Perfectly team live like paranoid monks and hermits, due to the inherent security risks of growing marijuana, regardless of whether it’s legal or not where we live.

We do not socialize, invite people over, have packages delivered to our houses. Because we can’t own firearms, we’re at the mercy of those who do. Only by avoiding armed people can we avoid the harm they can easily do to unarmed growers.

Maybe in June 2026, the Supreme Court will rule that just the mere fact that you possess or grow marijuana is NOT a block to legally purchasing or having a firearm. We’ll keep you posted!

Just remember, until then, if you grow or use marijuana, and you have a gun, you’re violating federal law!