Op-Ed Brittney Griner highlights Russia’s inhumane drug policies

[thegreenhand]

Brittney Griner highlights Russia’s inhumane drug policies​

Niko Vorobyov
Washington Post
10 Aug 2022

Excerpt:

When basketball star Brittney Griner was convicted in Russia of drug possession and smuggling and sentenced to 9½ years in a penal colony — for inadvertently carrying a vape cartridge containing 0.7 grams of cannabis oil in her luggage — the world was right to condemn her prosecution as a purely political farce.

But the case was also a reminder of Russia’s inhumane and rotten drug policies.

Griner is now living through a similar nightmare alongside tens of thousands of Russians convicted of drug possession and trafficking under draconian statutes known as “the People’s Laws” because of the number of people imprisoned under them. Altogether, drug violations account for over a quarter of all Russian prisoners.

 

[thegreenhand]

While the author is correct that Russia has some barbaric drug policies, this was probably the least insightful piece about drugs I’ve ever seen. And that’s sayin something…

A 7th grader could’ve wrote this

 

[S.J.B.]

Import/export of a controlled substance ain't a parking ticket anywhere.