pretty fucked, can't wait to see if Sleepy Joe can pull off a prisoner swap while tens of thousands of Black Americans rot in prison for weed possession
Drug laws where a mistake, this cursed world can't end sooner
Wanna guess who makes everyone adopt the drug laws (hint it's the IMF)
How was she wrongfully detained? The law has been the law for years lol
She was wrongfully sentenced. The amount she had on her would give her 15 days in jail. She had no intent to distribute. 9 years for a gram of hashish.... come on
If the sentence for under 2 grams of hashish is 15 days in prison or a fine, does it make sense to detain someone for 5 months conspiring to distribute weed? I think its pretty clear here that she is a political prisoner. Would the US do the same thing? Yes most likely, but it still sucks that someone who at most should have been fined is getting sentenced to 9 years
Have to wonder who pushed for Russia to adopt these draconian laws on marijuana
Tbh this was definitely a political prisoner type situation. Under their own laws she gets like a month in prison for this. She obviously wasn't looking to distribute with less than a gram of oil. It's absurd on its face. It's a shame she is caught in the political crossfire.
Yeah I read somewhere that the sentencing judge straight out said that the sentence was partially retaliation for America trying to politicize the trial.
Hello hour old account that is immediately starting arguments with people
Stalinist
Opinion discarded.
Also, how the fuck is this victim blaming? Omega didn't even mention Griner in that comment. Placing Russia's reactionary attitudes within a larger context that the US pushed them towards those attitudes is just historical materialism.
i wonder how this argument would fair here RE russia's invasion of ukraine.
Uh hello? I'm referring to the war on drugs which the US started and forced many MANY countries into participating in despite a local and historical apathy towards drug usage, particularly marijuana. Instead you think that I'm asserting that bc the west has adopted a more (and only somewhat better view, lmao) lackadaisical approach to marijuana legalization, that the Russians were somehow in their right to oppose it now? Huh?
I want every Russian to become a homosexual. That’s why Khrushchev murdered me, he was jealous of my ideas.
Thinking Queer Rights are somehow a luxury product is western decadence. There are many native LGBTQIA orgs and groups in Russia.
Repeating the myth that queerness is all CIA funded is doing the job of the Russian Orthodox church for them.
Russia is a conservative country
Bah, insulting. After the next revolution, just purge the Russian Orthodox church and gulag biggots again. Countries become socially liberated when you re-educate and/or execute anyone hateful that gets in the way.
"I'm pro-LGBT and we should punish 40% of the population for their religion"
It's so wild how you people literally prove my points in attempting to refute them. You're literally just anti-Communist propaganda personified.
“I’m pro-LGBT and we should punish 40% of the population for their religion”
:yes-comm:
Mighty big if on that prisoner exchange
Chuds are already getting mad that we'd trade "Mad Ivan the Butcher" for a WNBA player
Unironically sounding like a chud and y’all are agreeing with them. Sad.
Yeah she’s not a 6 foot 9 man. Her domestic abuse has nothing to do with being thrown in jail for 9 years. That’s because she forgot she had a weed pen in her bag.
Go back to r/nba
People obviously shouldn’t be imprisoned for marijuana regardless of anyone’s “western weed-smoking lifestyle”.
So you support these types of draconian anti-drug laws? I can understand why they exist, but it doesn't make them right.
I don't want them in my country, nor do I think my country would support them.
Other countries are allowed to choose their laws.
Why would I complain about something I can't influence, or at least can't influence without feeding into imperialist normalcy?
So you're taking the anti-imperialist position of [checks notes] supporting the death penalty for marijuana possession
We're on an explicitly radical and anti-imperialist website, nothing here has a 'normalising' effect.
Oh okay. If you're "anti-imperialist" then you can never be imperialist. Just like all those people who say they're anti-imperialist and want Ukraine to destroy Russia with the help of EU and the US.
Glad you're so sure of yourself because that can never have an effect on susceptibility.
You're being a contrarian and disguising it as being anti-imperialist. I could use your exact logic to browbeat people for criticizing Iran for their homophobic laws. Quit being a douche.
I could use your exact logic to browbeat people for criticizing Iran for their homophobic laws.
Yeah, that's exactly what you should do. People in the Imperial core do not get to criticise the Imperialised nations of the world.
It's not about morals, it's about knowing when to shut up and not participate in the shit Imperial powers promote.
When the US lost its grip on Afghanistan the news was littered with posts about how sad it's going to be for women in education. Do you think that was a mistake?
America is going to use marijuana legalization as a casus belli, despite it not even being legal in the states, and them being partly responsible for the widespread adoption of anti-drug policies?
No, but it is going to use it in their "evil countries" index.
you seem really tense and anxious, do you want to smoke some pot
:stalin-smokin:
Yeah, my take that "conservative drug laws are bad and ultimately self defeating or just dishonest social control measures" is what's going to push me overboard.
Reddit brain converts "I should" into "I can't be stopped" with alarming efficiency
:downbear:
I'm actually going to say that any country that thinks it's okay to lock people up for marijuana should change its drug laws. It's a needlessly cruel punishment for a victimless crime and even if you want to argue that drugs are bad for society, it's not like people aren't still getting legally drunk.
goddamn what the hell. what specifically gets u death? intent to distribute kind of thing? or even possession ?
I simply wouldn't bring drugs to those countries if I didn't want to die.
Nothing, because I don't live there. Doesn't mean I can't think they're bad lol. I don't live in the USA but I also think their policies are dumb, despite not really being able to do anything about it.
A true communist smuggles bricks of dank kush into bud-less nations for their comrades
I don't know what to tell you. A lot of people here like weed, there's nothing particularly western about it. Or at least western in a sense Russia isn't western.
:I-was-saying: I think that Russia (likely thousands of miles away) should change its drug laws to best suit my Western weed-smoking lifestyle
