If you answer yes you will likely be denied, answering no you will be doing something illegal.
Federaly you are commiting a felony already by being "an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana, or any depressant,stimulant, or narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance"
In fact if you answered no on the 4473 form you already broke the law if you had been using regularly at the time.
My advice would be to stop using it, even if permited and legal by your state, and then correctly and honestly answer no.
Since pot is illegal at the federal level, anyone using it even in a way legal in the state is still using it illegaly federaly, and if also in possession of a firearm and purchasing firearms while a user of such a controlled substance, especialy filling out 4473 forms is commiting multiple federal felony offenses.
Want some serious irony?
If you have legal prescription and a paper trail showing you have been a regular user for some time, it would be quite easy for the feds to show both prescriptions issued before and after the time a 4473 was filled out, demonstrating you have been a regular user of an illegal controlled susbtance (illegal federaly no matter what your state says) and lying on 4473s. A legal prescription at the state level is in fact a well documented paper trail of illegal activity at the federal level.
I am sorry the law is the way it is. Hopefully someone such as yourself can go through the painful court process and prevail, and then people such as yourself can benefit at thier expense. Until then however, many of your actions are illegal. You are commiting felonies on a regular basis.
Federaly you are commiting a felony already by being "an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana, or any depressant,stimulant, or narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance"
In fact if you answered no on the 4473 form you already broke the law if you had been using regularly at the time.
My advice would be to stop using it, even if permited and legal by your state, and then correctly and honestly answer no.
Since pot is illegal at the federal level, anyone using it even in a way legal in the state is still using it illegaly federaly, and if also in possession of a firearm and purchasing firearms while a user of such a controlled substance, especialy filling out 4473 forms is commiting multiple federal felony offenses.
Want some serious irony?
If you have legal prescription and a paper trail showing you have been a regular user for some time, it would be quite easy for the feds to show both prescriptions issued before and after the time a 4473 was filled out, demonstrating you have been a regular user of an illegal controlled susbtance (illegal federaly no matter what your state says) and lying on 4473s. A legal prescription at the state level is in fact a well documented paper trail of illegal activity at the federal level.
I am sorry the law is the way it is. Hopefully someone such as yourself can go through the painful court process and prevail, and then people such as yourself can benefit at thier expense. Until then however, many of your actions are illegal. You are commiting felonies on a regular basis.