 President Biden says he’s “working on” cannabis reform, but we’re still waiting to see action.
Meanwhile, the White House announced they are willing to negotiate with Russia over the exchange of political prisoners in Russia, namely Basketball star Brittney Griner, who is jailed for cannabis possession and former Marine Paul Whelan who is jailed for allegedly trumped up charges of spying. They would be potentially exchanged for a Russian arms dealer nicknamed the “merchant of death,” Viktor Bout. The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken acknowledged last Wednesday that the US did make a “substantial proposal” to get the pair released. In response to this announcement, Elon Musk tweeted on Sunday about the situation, saying, “Maybe free some people in jail for weed here too?” He wrote that along with a meme of a person looking annoyed with the caption: “People in the US in jail for weed while the government trades a Russian war criminal to free a woman’s basketball player in jail for weed.” The irony is definitely there. There are countless numbers of Americans in US jails right now, who are there for non-violent cannabis crimes that are now legalized in many states. While it is important to get Griner out of a Russian jail for this issue, it’s also just as important to get the thousands of people in American jails out for similar so called crimes here. Families of non-famous people are frustrated that their cases are not being given the same priority as Griner, and Elon Musk used his fame to tweet this point out. Comments are closed.
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