Supreme Court rules government cannot restrict gun rights for casual drug use

Key Points:

• The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the government cannot restrict gun rights for casual drug users, striking down the application of a federal law against Ali Danial Hemani, who occasionally used marijuana.
• The law in question criminalizes firearm possession by anyone deemed an "unlawful user" of controlled substances, but the court's decision narrows its scope, making it harder to apply against casual users without broader implications for addicts.
• Justice Neil Gorsuch emphasized that the ruling rejects the government's assumption that all marijuana users are dangerous, noting the discrepancy between state legalization and federal criminalization of marijuana.
• The decision aligns with the court's conservative majority's trend of expanding gun rights and challenges government overreach based on categorical assumptions about drug users.
• Hemani's case involved an FBI search revealing a handgun, marijuana, and cocaine, and despite prosecutorial claims of possible hostile foreign ties, no charges related to those allegations were filed.