The question is: “Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance?”
So prescriptions should not count.
Caveat on the drug thing: There is a list of who has a medical cannabis Rx. And I suppose any prescription… do opiods count?
seathru@quokk.au 2 days ago
Zak@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Medical cannabis cards are not prescriptions, and cannabis remains illegal for medical use under federal law in the USA.
There have been attempts to interpret this as meaning that someone with a medical cannabis card may not legally own a firearm, but when the question has gone to court recently, judges have usually disagreed,
Fondots@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The exact wording is if you are an
“unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance”.
So a legal prescription to opioids shouldn’t be a disqualifier, unless you become “addicted” which could maybe be up to some interpretation, but if you stick to what your prescribed it would be pretty hard for anyone to prove an addiction
Weed is in a weird place, and I’m not 100% up on the latest stuff with that and how rescheduling will change things, but since it’s still schedule I, as far as the feds are concerned there is basically no legal use for marijuana so pretty much any use is a disqualifier. I don’t know how rigorously they check that against people who have medical cards.
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
[deleted]captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yeah, I have to get drug tested a lot in my career and have an Adderall prescription. Firstly only one employer has even attempted to drug test me themselves because what they need is to know anything I test positive for is prescribed. Secondly that one that bucked the wisdom of others (it was a job placement agency) fucked up royally by kicking me out as I tried telling them that legally since I can prove I have a prescription for it they can’t reject me for it (this is why most don’t want to know, it opens liabilities). In their parking lot I reported them to the EEOC who declined to sue, but told me I had a case and I was allowed to. No justice here though, I’d gotten a different job by then and didn’t care enough to sue for a job I never wanted
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Cannabis is the only caveat there because the nics check is federal, and medical cannabis programs are all at the state level. Cannabis is still illegal at the federal level, so the feds don’t distinguish who is a “legal” cannabis user and who is not. They do not even distinguish who is an “addict” and who is not, when it comes to cannabis.
In fact, if you do leave that box unchecked and you are a medical patient, or fail a drug test administered during some other federal legal issue, that could be considered “proof” of lying on the form, and you could be charged.