Could this ruling spell the end for cannabis stigma?
Every so often a story comes along that grabs your attention, it might just seem at first glance that its just another boring story about the law, but then you realise that the implications of this ruling will have far greater implications, than just in the context of the story as is written. So why should I care about a story in an Irish news paper about a judges ruling in a case in the United states? I mean after all, I live in England, so Irish law and US law have little to do with my life, well take five dear reader and let me tell you a tale of a republican president, a federal judge, the state of Oklahoma, guns and drugs. On Friday 3 rd of February, US District Judge Patrick Wyrick, an appointee of former Republican president Donald Trump, dismissed an indictment against a man charged in August with violating a ban on owning firearms because he used Cannabis, Judge Wyrick overturned the ban stating that it “infringed his right to bear arms under the US constitution'...