While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are stationed at 737 bases, in 130 nations around the world, defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” Arthur Herbert, Assistant Director of Enforcement Programs and Services for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, writing in an open letter to federally licensed arms dealers says,

       … [A]ny person who uses or is addicted to marijuana, regardless of whether his or her [s]tate has passed legislation authorizing marijuana use for medicinal purposes, is an unlawful [illegal] of or addicted to a controlled substance, and is prohibited by Federal law from possessing firearms or ammunition. 

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       The Department of Corrections, of the confederate state of georgia, executes Troy A. Davis for the 1989 murder of a statute enforcement officer, in spite of conflicting evidence that he may not have committed the crime:

• There were four witnesses at Davis’ trial that identified him as the shooter.  After the trial three of those witnesses signed statements that they were mistaken.
• Two witnesses at the trial—one of whom was a “jailhouse snitch”—who claimed Davis had confessed to committing the crime, later admitted to making up the story.
• Other witnesses in the pre-trial investigation identified a man other than Davis as the shooter.
• None of this evidence was a part of Davis’ appeal process for it was barred by the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996.

       [added 5/11/2022] Thanks to KPFK-FM for this entry.