Should Drug Users Be Allowed to Own Firearms?
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Should Drug Users Be Allowed to Own Firearms?
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About this listen
Hosts Tim Carey and Kari Still analayze challenges to the federal prohibition on firearm possession for users of illicit drugs. Beth McGinty, PhD, MS, Chief of the Division of Health Policy and Economics and Livingston Farrand Professor of Public Health at Weill Cornell Medicine shares insights about how substance usage affects the risk of firearm possesion. Matthew Osborne, PhD, MA, associate professor of history at the University of Missouri, Kansas City discusses the history of alcohol and drug regulation in the United States.
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0:00 - Introduction and case background
6:00 - How courts are treating the current law and public debate
8:35 - What the research says about the risk of firearms and substance usage
24:00 - Conflicting challenges: United States v Daniels and United States v Beasley
38:00 - The historic of regulating alcohol and controlled substances
54:25 - What happens now?