Posted on 11/09/2022 1:37:39 AM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1
Lots of times cops get gang members who they've been unable to convict on the real crimes they do, find them with drugs, and prosecutors go for the maximum on the drugs.
weed? No, it was hash oil. And not a trivial amount either.
Yeah, but except for that...
Exactly! No one gets 9 years for 20 bucks worth of weed, first offense, if there are no other considerations and even then the field of play is narrow.
It was done to her because she is an American (and an unpleasant person, so suitable for a Russian propaganda operation).
>And not a trivial amount either.
It was $20 worth. Pretty trivial.
Got a verifiable link?
Court documents show she had 0.7 grams.
Here is a link showing:
https://loudcloudhealth.com/resources/what-is-hash-oil/
“The average wholesale price for marijuana concentrates (including hash and wax) is $19.68 per gram. “
Meaning the average wholesale price is 0.7*$20 = $14.
I used a higher number - $20 to estimate a retail price.
It’s really nothing and some people are trying to twist the facts to make it seem a drug kingpin was caught.
Nice stoner site, not credible, sorry.
Location location location. Possessing drugs while entering a foreign country. I believe that is frowned on in most places.
A very stupid move on her part. One can argue, “yeah,but” it’s only vapes, not very much, yada yada all well and good, but, she’s not “back on the block” , she’s not in Brooklyn, Philly, LA or Atlanta, hanging out.
Location, bringing XXXX in, whatever xxx happens to be , the dogs hit on her luggage. What, did the Russians do something wrong ? They shouldn’t run drug dogs ? She f’d up in a bad sort of way. I suggest she take up meditation .
Of course she is stupid. She is also an unpleasant person. That is why Russians chose her. To throw a stupid unpleasant AMERICAN into 9 years of gulag for having 20 bucks worth of weed.
This way they get to stick it to America and create a controversy.
I don’t have to like anything about her (and I don’t) to recognize that this is what the Russians are doing.
Not buying it, the dog hit on her luggage. The dogs are biased towards Americans ? She was entering another country. Airports, ports of entry , etc, are not good places to try stupid stuff. Not only in Russia . Sorry No sale, 9 years on the rock pile.
I repeat what I find important here - it was $20 worth of weed.
I don’t care about disputing any of the things you said like dogs sniffing and luggage or anything because they are all irrelevant.
Clearly 9 years for possession of $20 worth of weed, first offense is excessive and extreme!
Put some of the stuff in their luggage and send them on vacation to Russia.
Outraged? No.
There are points beneath which I will not go...even on a deserted island with an ugly woman.
I would rather be celibate.
Griner belongs in a penile colony.
I’ll bet she doesn’t do it again.
Since our method in the USA doesn’t seem to be working maybe enforcement and longer sentences are worth a try?
From what I understand, this guy has been to Russia on previous trips. He had to know the laws.
Trying to care....nope, don’t care, the rockpile, it is.
Megan, why?
She only had $20 worth of weed. A just verdict would sentence her proportionate to basically nothing that she had.
She is an unpleasant person, but that’s not a crime.
The world is a better place when we punish people when they actually commit crimes!
She’s going to be staying for a while to become a professional rock buster.
Seems appropriate
I have a dear friend who grew up in Omsk, Siberia. It is possible that her ancesters were sent there by the Czar, over a century ago..
That’s what Russia has been doing for generations, long before Stalin or even Putin, so it’s probably a good idea not to break the laws there.
She laughs at me when I complain about the cold weather here in New England.
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