Medical Marijuana Users ‘Have 30 Days’ To Turn In Their Guns
Medical Marijuana Users ‘Have 30 Days’ To Turn In Their Guns Are you ready? What happens in one state will happen in other states. The Honolulu Police Department is ordering legal cannabis patients to “voluntarily surrender” any guns they own because pot is still considered an illegal drug under federal law. The initiative continues three months after Hawaii’s first medical marijuana dispensary opened for business. “Your medical marijuana use disqualifies you from ownership of firearms and ammunition,” Honolulu police Chief Susan Ballard wrote in a Nov. 13 letter to one medical marijuana card holder. “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 or otherwise transfer ownership.” In the letter, Ballard cites Hawaii Revised Statutes, Section 134-7 (a) as the reason for the move. That section reads, “No person who is a fugitive from