U.S. Cannabis Council CEO Khadijah Tribble said Griner’s detention was an outrage and called on Congress to pass cannabis legislation.
Cannabis advocates were celebrating the release of WNBA player Brittney Griner ahead of her return to the U.S. Friday after spending 10 months imprisoned in Russia for possession of cannabis vaping oil.
“President Biden was correct when he said that no one should be jailed for using cannabis,” said Tribble, who added that cannabis reform measures would “bring some relief to all the other Americans who, like Griner, were unjustly harmed by cannabis prohibition.” “The greater the change we can create in the U.S. because of [Griner’s] imprisonment, the greater meaning it will give to her incarceration,” Williams said. “It’s time to apply pressure on our government to start expediting domestic reform.”
Griner’s release did spark criticism, however, from conservative political groups that opposed the release of Bout, who is known as the Merchant of Death. Rick Manning, president of the conservative nonprofit Americans for Limited Government, said the Biden administration would not have made the same effort had Griner not been famous.
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