re: SCOTUS (9-0): You can now own firearms and weed without reprecussions...

It will be interesting to see how this affects LA RS 14:95(E), which is a criminal statute that prohibits the possession of a firearm while in the possession of a CDS, except when it’s less than 14 grams of marijuana.

“ If the offender uses, possesses, or has under his immediate control any firearm, or other instrumentality customarily used or intended for probable use as a dangerous weapon, while committing or attempting to commit a crime of violence or while unlawfully in the possession of a controlled dangerous substance except the possession of fourteen grams or less of marijuana, or during the unlawful sale or distribution of a controlled dangerous substance, the offender shall be fined not more than ten thousand dollars and imprisoned at hard labor for not less than five nor more than ten years without the benefit of probation, parole, or suspension of sentence. Upon a second or subsequent conviction, the offender shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not less than twenty years nor more than thirty years without the benefit of probation, parole, or suspension of sentence.”

This law is intended to prevent drug dealers from possessing firearms in furtherance of their drug trade. The rationale is that gun violence readily occurs between drug dealers and those ripping off drug dealers.

This ruling could result in unintended consequences.