Protesters plan on using pot to demonstrate outside of the Russian Embassy and call for WNBA star Brittney Griner’s release.
Earlier this week, a Russian court upheld a nine-year prison sentence given to Brittney Griner after she was detained in February for possessing cannabis oil cartridges.
On Wednesday, The Washington Post reported protesters are calling for a “smoke out” outside of the embassy to protest the treatment of Brittney Griner.
Adam Eidinger, a cannabis activist and co-founder of DC Marijuana Justice, said, “Just as it’s unacceptable for Americans to sit behind bars for simple possession of cannabis, it’s absolutely unacceptable for an American sitting in a Russian Gulag.”
He added, “We feel compelled to protest the Russian Federation, and President Putin, who’s clearly using an American citizen as a pawn in his war against Ukraine.”
Protesters will reportedly come together at the embassy at 4:20 p.m.
They will bring plants, buds, flags with green pot leaves on them and a 50-foot inflatable joint, as the Post reported.
Eidinger shared he plans to throw marijuana onto the grounds of the embassy.
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— Adam Eidinger (@aeidinger) October 27, 2022
Earlier this month, Griner’s wife spoke out about how the basketball star was doing, as IJR reported.
“BG is at her absolute weakest moment in life right now,” Cherelle Griner said during an interview with “CBS Mornings.”
She added, “She’s very afraid about being left and forgotten in Russia, or just completely used to the point of her detriment.”
Cherelle Griner told the outlet her wife is saying things to her like “my life just don’t even matter no more.”
Sending a message to her wife, Cherelle Griner continued, “Your life matters to me.”
Former prisoners and advocates told NBC News the basketball star will enter a system of “isolation, grueling labor and psychological torment when she is transferred to a penal colony, the successor to the infamous Russian gulag,” to serve the sentence.
