Marijuana User Gets Second Look at Unlawful Firearm Conviction

A man secured a second chance to overturn his conviction for illegally owning a gun due to his regular marijuana use, since a federal district court failed to make the necessary individualized findings.

The district court didn’t “explicitly find” that Aldo Ali Cordova Perez Jr.'s marijuana use caused him to pose a credible threat to the physical safety of others when armed, the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit said in a Tuesday opinion.

The court remanded the case to the US District Court for the Southern District of Iowa to determine whether Perez’s marijuana use caused ...