Marijuana Gun Rights Ruling
Supreme Court says marijuana use alone doesn’t strip a person’s gun rights.
June 18, 2026 · Updated Jun 18, 6:26pm ET
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What happened
The Supreme Court unanimously sided with Ali Danial Hemani, a Texas marijuana user who challenged a federal law barring unlawful drug users from possessing firearms. Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote that applying the 1968 Gun Control Act provision to Hemani was inconsistent with the Second Amendment, narrowing prosecutors’ ability to disarm people based solely on drug use. Hemani, a dual U.S.-Pakistani citizen, was investigated in 2022 for alleged terrorism-related concerns, but agents found marijuana and a gun rather than evidence of another weapons crime. The ruling extends the court’s recent gun-rights jurisprudence while stressing a narrower limit on the government’s power to strip firearm rights from people not shown to be dangerous or misusing weapons.