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Occasional Marijuana User Can Keep Her Guns, 5th Cir. Says

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Paola Connelly was charged with possessing a firearm as an unlawful user of a controlled substance.

Police officers found firearms and drug paraphernalia in her home in 2021 .

The Fifth Circuit said the law barring illegal drug users from possessing a gun is facially constitutional, but not as applied to an occasional marijuana user.

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