Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) star and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner was detained earlier this year in February at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport for bringing cannabis oil-infused vape cartridges into the country.
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Apparently, she has no peculiar disease however, it is said according to her defense team, Griner had a prescription from a US doctor authorizing her to use cannabis for chronic pains.
In a case that has reached the highest echelons of US-Russian diplomacy, a Russian court found US basketball star Brittney Griner guilty of drug smuggling and sentenced her to nine years in prison.
Judge Anna Sotnikova informed the court in the town of Khimki, which is located outside of Moscow, that the court found the defendant guilty of smuggling and possessing a significant amount of narcotics.
On Thursday, Sotnikova claimed that Griner had committed the crime deliberately. Griner, however, had admitted during the trial that it was an error. Additionally, the player was charged a $16,300 dollars fine.
