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Arkansas Medical Marijuana Users Federally Barred from Purchasing, Owning Guns

J. FROELICH
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KUAF
Arkansas medical marijuana users are federally prohibited from purchasing, owning or using a gun, for example from this collection of glock pistols for rent at a Tontitown indoor gun range.

Five months after the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Act, a voter-approved ballot initiative, officially took effect in early November 2016, handgun carrying laws greatly expanded in Arkansas as well, but gun owners who register as medical marijuana patients are federally prohibited from purchasing or even owning a gun.

Jacqueline Froelich is an investigative reporter and news producer for Ozarks at Large.
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