The Supreme Court has delivered another win for gun-rights advocates, ruling that the Constitution protects the right of habitual marijuana users to own a firearm. The justices ruled unanimously Thursday in favor of a Texas man who challenged a longstanding federal law making it a crime for a person who is an “unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance” to have a gun,

The Supreme Court is siding with a Texas marijuana user who wants to legally own a gun, the latest in a line of firearm cases from a court that has expanded gun rights

The unanimous decision comes after a Texas man, Ali Danial Hemani, argued that a 1968 law barring guns from anyone who uses illegal drugs is a Second Amendment violation, according to a report from the Associated Press.

The Supreme Court unanimously found that a Texas man's prosecution for having a firearm while he was an occasional, unlawful marijuana user was too broad an interpretation of the law and violated his Second Amendment.

Lawyers for the Justice Department told the Supreme Court that Hemani's marijuana should be treated as a Schedule I controlled substance, as it was at the time of his illegal gun

The Supreme Court Thursday curbed the power of the federal government to disarm a frequent marijuana user, limiting the scope of a law enacted during the 1960s to keep weapons out of the hands of Americans who regularly use drugs.

The Supreme Court sided with a Texas man and ruled against the government after its prosecution of a federal law that bars certain drug users from having firearms. CBS News' Jan Crawford reports.

The high court sides with Texas man, who habitually uses marijuana, in his challenge to case against him under federal law.