Can pot smokers and other drug users legally own guns? Supreme Court to decide

A lower court ruled that unless a gun wielder is high, past drug use alone is not disqualifying under the Second Amendment.

USA TODAY Oct 20 2025

WASHINGTON − Are pot smokers drug users only when they're high? And can they and other drugs users legally own guns?

The Supreme Court on Oct. 20 agreed to decide this question, accepting the Justice Department’s appeal of a lower court’s ruling that past drug use alone can't keep a person from having a gun under the Second Amendment.

The government’s lawyers argued the ruling effectively guts a statute aimed at reducing gun violence by preventing unlawful drug users from wielding firearms.

Hunter Biden, who was preemptively pardoned by his father, President Joe Biden, during his final weeks in office, was convicted in 2024 of violating the law by purchasing a gun despite having a known drug addiction.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/10/20/supreme-court-drugs-weed-guns-trump-justice-department/86602524007/