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> Same way people acquire guns illegally in US states that prohibit gun ownership: involved parties choose to break the law.

There are legal avenues to buy guns in the US though, that's the confusion for me. Why bother saying I can own it if the law also says no one can legally sell it to me?

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> Why bother saying I can own it if the law also says no one can legally sell it to me?

The government isn’t saying “we’re totally ok with you personally taking drugs,” it’s saying “we don’t think that arresting people who have small amounts of drugs for personal consumption is a valuable use of law enforcement resources, so we’re decriminalizing personal possession and use to focus those resources on larger criminal organizations.”

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