Conservatives have been slow to recognize the threat that drug prohibition poses to gun rights and other civil liberties.
What does that position say about the NRA’s understanding of the Second Amendment? If trivial offenses such as pot smoking are enough to strip someone of the constitutional right to armed self-defense, that right is subject to legislators’ whims, a proposition that the NRA passionately rejects in other contexts.
https://reason.com/2023/03/12/the-drug-exception-to-the-second-amendment/