Oregon resident Cynthia Willis wants her constitutional right to bear arms and be as high as a kite doing it protected.
A typical Oregon resident’s basement. That’s weed and guns, by the way.
What happens when a medical marijuana card mixes with the Second Amendment? Guns and drugs—the nightmare-cum-rallying cry of politicians, cops and American moralists over the past 50 years. The message behing guns and drugs is Offspringian: You gotta keep ‘em separated.
Cynthia Willis thinks not, reported the Associated Press today. Willis is one of many Oregon residents packing a medical marijuana card and heat. As expected, the fuzz don’t like this trend one bit. Willis balks at the cops:
“Under the medical marijuana law, I am supposed to be treated as any other citizen in this state. If people don’t stand up for their little rights, all their big rights will be gone.”
Willis gets high through a variety pot-imbued vessels—joints, brownies and marijuana oil, in particular. She claims she doesn’t shoot her guns or drive when she’s stoned. Of course she doesn’t. Why on earth would she admit this to a reporter?
A person with a pot card and a P22 saying she doesn’t get stoned and shoot guns is Nixonian in its absolute untruthiness. Willis’ defense: “That would be as stupid as mixing alcohol and weapons.” My spidey sense tells me Willis had never seen “Boyz ‘N the Hood” or an episode of “COPS.” That is to say, mixing weapons and alcohol happens all the time. This is America: Our former vice president shot a guy in the face on a boozy hunting trip and no one cared.
The issue: The 1968 Gun Control Act makes it illegal to sell firearms to drug addicts. But people with pot cards aren’t drug addicts, and if some sheriffs think they are, they happen to be opining on a very serious piece of U.S. legislation by enforcing a law that exists only in their minds. We usually refer to this as fascism.
For now, cops and Oregon residents are in a stalemate. Johnny Q. Law can keep an eye on you, but you can walk into a gun shop huffing from a bong shaped like an assault rifle and not be turned away.





April 05, 2011 at 5:47 pm, john charles webb jr said:
here is a place where that ‘pot and gun’ stuff
worked out : !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ_VrZa1Tpw&feature=related
the ‘In God We Trust” stuff ,
just did not work out .
Medical Marijuana and FULL FAITH AND CREDIT !
tHE pEEpLE ARE tAKING IT bACK :
frEEdOm !
April 05, 2011 at 5:52 pm, john charles webb jr said:
possible reason for this result . . . . . (?)
those who get the best pot . . . .
control the universe :
Harry POT.ter
April 05, 2011 at 6:54 pm, Lonniedwages said:
Who is this right wing reporter? How about all the pill popping cops of anyone who takes any medicine. None should have guns? Sounds like NAZI Germany>
April 05, 2011 at 6:55 pm, Foo said:
biased bunch of garbage. what a lousy web site.
April 05, 2011 at 9:04 pm, synergy said:
“A person with a pot card and a P22 saying she doesn’t get stoned and shoot guns is Nixonian in its absolute untruthiness. Willis’ defense: “That would be as stupid as mixing alcohol and weapons.” ”
Seems this guy does not know Oregonians! I have a card and I hunt.Do I hunt when using my Vicodan? nope.Do I hunt when using Cannabis? nope.Why is that so hard for this guy to get? The very idea that having a medical card would preclude gun ownership is ludicrous in the extreme. This is nothing more than a chicken little story to milk the dying perception of wacked out stoner.
April 05, 2011 at 9:38 pm, Anonymous said:
Ever thought about a journalism class? Like, the five w’s? Who, what, when, where, why?
Who is the lady, come on, give us some background on her, why she uses medical marijuana. Who prescribed it to her?
What is the effect on her when she is using it? What would happen if she were high and someone break into her house? What would be the effect of leaving her defenseless?
When does she smoke, how much and how often. When does smoking pot cease to be a medicine, and become a recreational drug? When does a person choose between blindness from glaucoma and their right to defend themselves?
Where does she live, what does the area look like and who does she interact with. Where does the weed come from?
Why does she smoke, what would be the effect if she stopped? Why does the law discriminate against her?
Look, this is off the cuff, but it is clearly more than you bothered to ask in your interview or in putting this article together. Dig out your textbooks, re-read how to write a story, then perhaps you might write something that is in depth and worth reading.
April 06, 2011 at 1:59 pm, Rusty said:
Maybe she will shoot herself
April 06, 2011 at 6:30 pm, Projammer said:
Oh wow. She’s got a card and a pistol. It’s the end of civilization.
April 07, 2011 at 1:30 am, Rich said:
looks like fake pot