Posted on 07/26/2022 10:40:16 AM PDT by Red Badger
Brittney Griner, the WNBA “star” that protested against America in the wake of George Floyd’s death by refusing to appear on the court for the national anthem and saying that she thought the national anthem shouldn’t be played at all, is not fading quietly into the night and just accepting that she’s going to go to prison in Russia for breaking that nation’s laws and smuggling drugs into the country (an act that she admitted to).
Rather, she’s making absurd excuses for her conduct, as if the Russians will let her free if only she comes up with just the right excuse for having smuggled drugs into the Russian Federation.
First, her legal team argued that she had inadvertently put the hash oil vape cartridges in her luggage and had not meant to smuggle them into Russia. That didn’t work to well, as the law is that no smuggling is allowed, not that you’ll be let off the hook by claiming that you didn’t mean to bring drugs into the nation…otherwise every drug dealer/smuggler would just say that they hadn’t meant to bring the drugs into the nation.
Next, the legal team claimed that Griner only had the drugs because she has a medical marijuana prescription and needed the drug for “chronic pain.” Once again, the Russians didn’t care, as her lawyers should have expected from the start: Russia doesn’t allow any marijuana, “medical” or not. So having a card giving you permission to smoke weed isn’t an excuse for doing so over there.
And that’s a longstanding policy of Russia, as it sees weed as being deleterious and has the guts necessary to stand up to stoners that claim they need it as a “medicine”. As Andrey Khrapov, the head of the anti-drug department in Russia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs, put it:
“If a person continues to use marijuana for a long time, then, as a rule, this causes certain changes in the psychological properties. The opinion of our doctors, law enforcement agencies is against it. There is no benefit in this, no medical effect, except for worsening the situation.”
“Let’s say countries like Holland, Uruguay, Mexico, where they legalized marijuana, as a result, human rights activists, sane people in these countries come to the conclusion that this was actually a wrong, unnecessary decision. Believe me, for every type of disease, where you can would be to use marijuana for a medicinal effect, there are many pharmaceutical analogues that are better and safer,”
So the whole “medical marijuana” excuse didn’t work, as Russia thinks it’s ridiculous, like many conservatives in America do.
Regardless, it’s the line her lawyers keep pushing, with Fox News reporting that lawyer Maria Blagovolina said “With the prescription in place, Brittney may have used it for medical but not recreational purposes.”
The Russians have remained unimpressed and unwilling to treat that claim as a meaningful excuse. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, for example, said:
“If a U.S. citizen was taken in connection with the fact that she was smuggling drugs, and she does not deny this, then this should be commensurate with our Russian local laws and not with those adopted in San Francisco, New York and Washington.
“You understand, if drugs are legalized in the United States — in a number of states — and this is done for a long time, and now the whole country will become drug addicted. This does not mean that all other countries are following the same path.”
What power does Biden have to get “her” out?
Dementia Joe could try what Jimmy Carter tried to do in Iran and get even worse results.
wonder how many times he’s taken a knee in prayer during his reeducation program...
Anything I search on Google refuses to say clearly. A typical article on any of the dozens of shyte sources they provide will say something like "she's a woman" but immediately issue caveats saying things like "but she's always viewed gender differently" or "is a homosexual." The political correctness of the craven American media is appalling.
The lawyers have got nothing and they know it. They are just creating billing opportunities. She/he is an American hater and now she/he is going to learn a big lesson about reality in other countries.
I never said anything about illegal drug use. She deserves what she gets. I know a vet who suffers from PTSD and medical (legal) pot helps him. He uses a pen and I never even smell it. I have no use for it myself but I won’t deny medical aid to others (like liberals trying to control Ivermectin) if it helps them in any way.
“I just recently heard “her” speak. That’s a man, baby.”
I saw a picture published of “her” without a shirt on. I thought I’d feel some embarrassment looking at it, but none at all because that’s a man.
Look around. The picture’s out there.
Her biology is unclear. Certainly a Type A-Flat bra size, when one is used at all.
You can tell by this thread who the Zeeper, hopheads and drug addled stumblebums are. Right, FP?
“She” definitely sounds like a man. I suggested to someone at work the Griner might be a man, but the co-worker could not believe it and said he remembered seeing “her” in the local news in her high school days. So, if Griner is really a male, the charade has been going on for quite some time.
This ... from the country that dopes up its Olympic athletes. LOL
“I know a vet who suffers from PTSD and medical (legal) pot helps him”
Yeah in THIS country it’s legal.
It never ceases to amaze me that a lot of people assume the freedoms they enjoy in this country extend to other parts of the world as well, obviously they don’t and that’s a hard lesson this person is learning right now.
I got a feeling she’s gonna be gone for awhile.
Proof how spoiled Americans have become.
Yeah, you tink so? And Trump would have lost millions of votes getting this sniveling man baby out of a Russian lock up too.
Her only hope is to beg the Donald to exert his influence, like he did in China and in N Korea.
“So the whole “medical marijuana” excuse didn’t work, as Russia thinks it’s ridiculous, like many conservatives in America do.”
Trump on medical mj and leaving legalization to the states =>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOpgIDMV07o
She gets what she deserves. I’m afraid the “I’m a victim” or the race card won’t cut the Borscht over there.
That was unkind, mea culpa.
Are they holding it in a Male prison or female prison? That doesn’t look or sound like any woman I know. America is a racist country so why should it try to help that dude?
Maybe it’ll teach her to appreciate the greatest country in the world...but I doubt it.
He might of lost your vote, but he would have gained many more. The reason he won 2 elections is he appealed to all Americans.
Same he did for the basketball players that got caught shoplifting in China.
The sound on the video works fine on my computer.
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