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.”
One can only hope. heh heh If I were POTUS, I’d let her sweat it out a while longer, besides she’s not the only American in prison over there (just the one with the spotlight).
I have no idea.
Weed is no worse than booze.
“So you think crack cocaine should be legal and easily available in the grocery shops too?”
I think all but a few drugs should be available to any adult that wants them.
I believe in natural selection. Sooner we get rid of our idiots, the sooner Democrats will become extinct.
Is she a trans-testicle?
Just found it.
Yep!
“Weed is no worse than booze”
Apparently in Russia it is.....which is why this triple minority (which don’t mean shit in russia) has a tit in the wringer.
That is a man’s voice and I don’t recall ever seen any woman sit with ‘her’ legs spread like that.
That’s a dude.
I think they’ve looked into it a lot..a real lot.
Well crazy Joe is doing that anyway, by opening up our borders and letting the Mexican drug lords flood the country with as much illegal drugs as they want.
Good news is, most crack addicts outside of Hunter Biden, are in the big Dem controlled cities.
Can’t complain when the Dem voters keep killing themselves with illegal drug overdose.
So, if she is using pot to reduce pain and therefore enhance her performance then she is also guilty of using performance enhancing drugs.
I am suspicious of the CBD oils. Hemp oil is useless for pain, tried it. Oils with THC would require the oil be absorbed. No evidence THC manages pain when absorbed through the skin. They do not know exactly how THC works to reduce chronic pain, but it does. That is however, not a valid reason to vape or smoke it since that creates a host of other issues. My doctor told me medical marijuana is a joke, but THC as a therapeutic has some value if dosage and usage are controlled. Until such time as THC is legal drug companies will not do the work to determine usage, dosage and best way to administer.
It ain’t just liberals or RATS dying from fentanyl or heroin overdose. Unless you are challenging Rush’s conservative creds, opioid addiction does not stop at political party lines. Rush was lucky he received help before he turned to heroin. Local cop not known as a liberal found dead from fentanyl OD. Injured on the job, chronic pain as a result. They stopped pain meds, so he bought street meds. Eventually physically and mentally addicted. People had to know, how could someone function as a cop on OxyContin or fentanyl?
Russia would not play along with a man claiming to be a woman when deciding where to house her unless it is a ploy to get Viktor Bout.
So to me that means that perhaps she was born intersex and her parents decided her sex for her and perhaps she had a surgery. All speculation.
“Proof how spoiled Americans have become.”
That goes double for those who think they have “black privilege” and double again for those who think they have “LGBT privilege”.
The Russians view her as a spoiled fool. The only question is whether they want to re-educate her in Siberia or just have her do hard labor to pay for her room and board.
She also has “entitled athlete” privilege!
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