WNBA star Britney Griner arrested in Russia for Drugs

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Griner, 31, is an American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Mercury of the Women's National Basketball Association. She also won gold while playing for the US women's national basketball team in 2021 and 2016.

 

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WNBA Players Refusing To Play In Russia In Protest Of Brittney Griner’s Imprisonment​

Top salaried WNBA players are opting out of playing in Russia during the offseason as Brittney Griner is still incarcerated in the country on cannabis charges, according to the Associated Press. Per the outlet, WNBA stars Breanna Stewart, Courtney Vandersloot, and Jonquel Jones — who have all played for Russia’s UMMC Ekaterinburg team with Griner — are turning down millions of dollars to play in another country this winter, with Turkey and Hungary looking like high prospects.

 

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Seven-time WNBA All-Star player Brittney Griner is being held in custody by Russian officials after she was arrested at a Moscow airport.

Vape cartridges containing hashish oil were found in her luggage at Sheremetyevo Airport after she arrived in Russia from New York, according to The New York Times.

Russian news sources said she was arrested in February. Russia's Interfax news agency said a drug-sniffing dog uncovered "so-called 'vapes'" in her luggage with the "narcotic drug cannabis oil."

"As a U.S. citizen was passing through the green channel at Sheremetyevo Airport upon arriving from New York, a working dog from the Sheremetyevo Customs canine department detected the possible presence of narcotic substances in the accompanying luggage," the Russian Federal Customs Service said in a statement, according to multiple reports. "The customs inspection of the hand luggage being carried by the U.S. citizen confirmed the presence of vapes with specifically-smelling liquid, and an expert determined that the liquid was cannabis oil (hash oil), which is a narcotic substance."

 

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Russia says it's holding an American WNBA star in custody after discovering vapes and hashish oil in her luggage​

• WNBA star Britney Griner was detained at the Sheremetyevo airport near Moscow, according to The New York Times.
• Griner, 31, was detained as a "preventative measure," according to Russia's Interfax news agency.
• Griner's team the Phoenix Mercury released a statement saying they are "closely monitoring the situation."

 

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Griner, 31, is an American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Mercury of the Women's National Basketball Association. She also won gold while playing for the US women's national basketball team in 2021 and 2016.

 

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Griner, 31, is an American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Mercury of the Women's National Basketball Association. She also won gold while playing for the US women's national basketball team in 2021 and 2016.

 

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"...narcotic drug cannabis oil."

Um... THC isn't a narcotic. It's either an euphoric, a soporific, or both -- dependent on the individual's neurochemistry, the ratio of CBD to Delta-9 THC in the product being consumed, and the method of consumption, the latter two factors contributing to either mitigate or actuate the "entourage effect."

But opioids are narcotics; cannabinoids are not.

 

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That's not how the Russians see it. It's also still a schedule 1 substance in the US as well.

Probably the most misunderstood "molecule of emotion" there is.

Who travels with THC oil and a vape in their luggage as a professional repping our country on business anyway? I get what it's used for. I make my own THC and CBD tinctures for personal use and smoke flower nearly every day.

 

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Who travels with THC oil and a vape in their luggage as a professional repping our country on business anyway?

Someone with a double digit IQ and the sense of entitlement only intersectional feminism can instill, evidently.

 

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Someone with a double digit IQ and the sense of entitlement only intersectional feminism can instill, evidently.

Yeah well she's a fucking moron then. Why throw everything away to have a vape pen in your luggage? Didn't get there by itself.

 

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She's an ape like the rest of them.

 

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I'm sure Russia has an economy-size case of the sads that they won't have to host a pack of velcro-headed feral rugmunchers.

Or, as the late, great Don Imus aptly described them: "Nappy-headed hoes."

 

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One has to wonder how a lesbian copes in a "penal colony".

 

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Probably "identifies as" herself to sleep every night.

 

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Griner, 31, is an American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Mercury of the Women's National Basketball Association. She also won gold while playing for the US women's national basketball team in 2021 and 2016.

 

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LOL kept you up all night on Haloween

 

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Griner, 31, is an American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Mercury of the Women's National Basketball Association. She also won gold while playing for the US women's national basketball team in 2021 and 2016.