The US Regularly Treats Black Weed Users Like Brittney Griner

As outrage mounts over WNBA star Brittney Griner’s prison sentence in Russia, harsh U.S. weed laws are also coming under scrutiny.
Even if Brittney Griner serves her full nine-year prison sentence, she’d be free from a Russian penal colony by 2031—but Allen Russell would still be sitting in a Mississippi prison for getting caught with less than two ounces of weed.
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Biden backed the 1994 crime bill, which bolstered the war on drugs, particularly in Black and brown communities. Vice President Kamala Harris was also called out for hypocrisy after she decried Griner’s imprisonment; as former attorney general of California, Harris oversaw 1,900 cannabis convictions, according to the Mercury News, though she now says she supports decriminalization.

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