In August, the Justice Department urged a federal court to do so deny the lawsuit brought by the Florida Department of Agricultureright Nicki Fried, aimed at allowing legal medical marijuana users to purchase and own guns. The government argued that it was “It’s dangerous to trust regular marijuana users to exercise sound judgment.”

The DOJ quotes insultingly “Parallels to previous gun bans for groups such as Native Americans, Catholics, beggars, as well as those who refuse to take an oath of allegiance to the government, and people who shoot drunkenly with firearms.”

In a response letter submitted on Wednesday Attorneys representing the plaintiffs said that the DOJ’s “contrary claims and analogies are offensive, illogical, and ahistorical.” as first reported by Marijuana Moment.

The document goes on to say that “These are not even the most dubious comparisons or allegations made by the defendants, as they also equate the deprivation of compliant medical marijuana patients of their Second Amendment rights with the historic disarmament of Catholics and Native Americans seem to be.”

The filing also noted that the DOJ’s parallels “stray too far from the laws in question,” adding that they “try to draw on the historical concept that the government in general has tried to disarm those.” which she considers dangerous”.

The Lawyers requested that the court convene a one-hour oral hearing to discuss these issues.

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Fried filed a second amendment lawsuit against the Biden administration in April, what she announced on the Benzinga Cannabis Capital Conference in Miami on April 20th

“No patient should have to choose between medicine and employment, a roof over their head, access to capital or their constitutional rights,” she said said.

Since then Fried pointed out on several occasions that the constitutional rights of state-licensed medical marijuana patients in Florida are being restricted due to current language on a federal form prohibiting them from…