Posted on 07/23/2022 9:03:48 AM PDT by Kevin in California
Raw cannabis cannot be used in Russia, including for medical purposes. Among the narcotics and psychoactive substances, cannabis is on Russia’s “List I.” There is strict government control over the circulation of substances on List I.
According to the Russian Criminal Code, narcotic and psychotropic substances, their analogs, and plants containing them (including cannabis) are prohibited if manufactured, sold, or delivered without authorization.
Great “don’t smuggle drugs in foreign countries” flick. Should be required viewing for every student looking to backpack thru the Old Country, over the summer.
Do you even read what I wrote?!!?
Your attempt trying to equate US political prosecutions with hers pretty much admits by you my point…
Her arrest and prosecution are political, can you name one other person Russia has arrested for having cannabis oil vape cartridges?!? Let along held for months before trial etc?!? Anyone? A single one?
You think this hasn’t happened before? Sure it happens all the time, and typically contraband is simply confiscated and person warned it’s not legal there… people do this sort of thing all the time usually completely unintentionally.
Her arrest and prosecution are politically motivated. Now I have no pity to this idiot, but this “do the crime do the time” fools, thinking this is just some typical police action are just as big of fools as this woman is.
Who the hell goes to Russia... in February?! And take illegal drugs with them.... I know it's political but she put herself in this situation.
Go ahead, name me one person prosecuted for having CAnnabis oil in their vape cartridge in Russia. Name one?
Have you ever actually traveled internationally? My guess Is probably not.
It’s rather common folks pack things they don’t realize are illegal or banned where they are traveling to that aren’t illegal where they are flying from. Unless you are transporting large quantities for trafficking purposes this sort of thing just get confiscated and the person carrying it warned.
Depending on where you are going many OTC and legal items in one country are illegal in others. Arrests for small amounts of personal use rarely result in arrests and prosecution in any country.
She stupidly popped off against the UKraine war publicly, and became an enemy of the state in Russia, and was treated accordingly… you think this was just some routine or typical criminal/police situation you are as big a fool, if not a bigger one that this woman is.
Yeah I read what you wrote. I thought it was silly. That’s why I asked the question I asked.
Apparently a lot people besides me thought what you wrote was silly too. Particularly because you’re just stating your theory as if it is a fact, without offering any proof.
Did she have the drugs, or didn’t she? Didn’t she admit having them? The Russians shouldn’t have arrested her because she’s a famous media figure in the United States?
They shouldn’t have arrested her because they sometimes fail to detect people who are bringing drugs into their country?
Also, Griner was arrested February 17th. Putin ordered the invasion February 21st. What would have been the point of the Russian’s propaganda at that time?
And I don’t like being called “foolish” just because I don’t hold the same unsupported beliefs you do.
That’s a man, baby!!
“Lol...hopefully we’ll still be able to fight back!”
Fight back?? Our side should be welcoming them considering what we’re putting up with now.
Hell we’re getting absolutely demolished by the in-house Marxists , gay mafia, feminazis, race pimps, etc.,
Why would I want to fight those who would help crush these SOBs?
The enemy of my enemy...
The good news is s/he has been clean and sober for five months.
Oh please, don’t try to cover for this person. Waste your energy on someone who is worth it.
Face it. If you are in another country. You are not running things. That ain’t hard to understand. This person had been there before and knew the rules.
Or abandoning billions of dollars worth of weapons for the Taliban to sell? "Merchant of Death" certainly would apply to Biden.
Pot .. no.
Krokodil .. ok!
Quite a learning experience for another idiot American athlete.
“anyone else and any other time the contraband would have been confiscated and thrown away”
Nonsense.
Which parts were cut off?
Julian Assange
If IT had been a woman, you would see the scars from a mastectomy.
So, born male is my guess.
I do feel sorry for the freak, though.
I wonder what kind of parents and what sort of childhood it had.
I will pray for it.
GOOD for the Russians, they engaged in political arrest. The Left is doing that al over the West, we should be supporting all out political arrests and attacks on leftists no matter by what nation. This is a war. Rights are out the window. Even if they executed her it would be a plus.
Why do you complain? Russia should be allowed to arrest every high profile leftie from Pelosi to Biden to Gates to Schwab if it were possible. Politically motivated, unfair, and brutal arrests. You would consider that a bad thing? Progressives should have their rights brutalized whenever possible.
Exactly!
There are no womens sports anymore.
There are only Mens and coed.
WNBA is a joke.
A US federal prosecutor can get you to plead to a lesser charge very easy.
The difference between twenty years in jail or a suspended jail sentence and a fine
I suspect the same is true in Russia
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