Gun rights and medical marijuana activists join forces in Minnesota

Coalition emerged because medical marijuana users are barred from holding firearms permits

Gun rights and medical marijuana legal reform advocates are seeking to join forces in Minnesota, where they hope to petition the federal government to drop its severe classification of marijuana.

The coalition of strange political bedfellows has emerged because medical marijuana users are barred from holding firearms permits, as the federal government designates marijuana a schedule I illegal drug - on a par with heroin, LSD and ecstasy - unsafe and without medicinal benefit.