[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2830 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2830

To protect the Second Amendment rights of adults whose use of marijuana 
                  is permitted by State or tribal law.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 22, 2021

  Mr. Young (for himself, Mr. Rodney Davis of Illinois, and Mr. Mast) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                             the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To protect the Second Amendment rights of adults whose use of marijuana 
                  is permitted by State or tribal law.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Gun Rights And Marijuana Act'' or 
the ``GRAM Act''.

SEC. 2. PROTECTION OF SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS OF ADULTS WHOSE USE OF 
              MARIJUANA IN ACCORDANCE WITH STATE OR TRIBAL LAW.

    Section 921(a) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
    ``(36) The term `unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled 
substance' shall not include a person by reason of unlawful use of or 
addiction to marihuana (as defined in section 102(16) of the Controlled 
Substances Act) if--
            ``(A) the person resides in a State, or on lands under the 
        jurisdiction of an Indian tribe (as defined in section 4 of the 
        Indian-Self Determination and Education Assistance Act), the 
        laws of which permit the use of marihuana by an adult; and
            ``(B) the use of marihuana by the person in the State or on 
        those lands, as the case may be, does not violate the laws of 
        the State or Indian tribe, as the case may be.''.
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