Check out the cited article on Leafly, they explain the situation better without getting into all the rhetoric that Natural News did. Basically what it comes down to is that on one of the ATF forms you fill out when you buy a firearm there is a checkbox that asks if you are a marijuana user. Remember that regardless of what laws a state has passed the federal government considers marijuana a drug more dangerous than cocaine, prescribed or not. If you didn’t check that so you would be able to get a firearm but later get a MMJ prescription then there’s a problem.
It sounds like there is a unique situation in Hawaii as they require guns to be registered and they are also one of the only states to maintain a list of people
With MMJ prescriptions so there is something to correlate. The big question from my point of view is are they doing this because they think it’s a significant problem or are they doing it because they realized there is a potential liability if they have this information and didn’t use it? Imagine a mass shooting at some point in the future where the perpetrator had a MMJ prescription. Wouldn’t surprise me one bit if there was an army of lawyers ready to blame it on the devil weed.
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