Sunday 7 August 2022 03:13 PM Elon Musk says Biden should free anyone jailed for weed-related offenses in the ... trends now
Elon Musk has waded into the federal government's efforts to free WNBA star Brittney Griner from Russian captivity, saying the Biden administration should also free anyone else jailed for weed offenses in the United States.
Griner, 31, was found guilty on Thursday of smuggling drugs into Russia after a judge rejected her claims she accidentally left a marijuana pen in her bag when she entered the country in February. She was sentenced to nine years in prison.
Almost immediately following the verdict, U.S. President Joe Biden said he would work 'tirelessly' to pursue 'every possible avenue' to bring her and Paul Whelan - another American imprisoned in Russia - home.
The State Department is now working to negotiate a prisoner swap for the two Americans in exchange for Viktor Boult, a Russian arms dealer known as the criminal known as the 'merchant of death.'
But in the United States, marijuana possession remains illegal at the federal level, and marijuana arrests now account for over half of all drug arrests in the country, according to the ACLU.
And of the 8.2 million marijuana busts between 2001 to 2010, the ACLU found, 88 percent were for simply having marijuana.
'If the president is working so hard to free someone who is in jail in Russia for some weed, shouldn't we free people in America?' Musk said in an episode of the Full Send podcast.
'There are people in jail in America for the same stuff, shouldn't we free them too?' he asked, adding: 'My opinion is that people should not be in jail for nonviolent drug crimes.'
Controversial Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in an appearance on the Full Send podcast that the Biden administration should free all of the Americans who are arrested on marijuana charges if it is working so hard to free WNBA star Brittney Griner from Russian captivity
Musk also revealed that the federal government requires him and his staff at SpaceX to undergo regular drug testing after he smoked a joint in an appearance of The Joe Rogan Experience back in 2018
On Thursday, Griner was sentenced to nine years in prison after a Russian judge rejected her claims she accidentally left a marijuana pen in her bag when she entered the country in February
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Musk also revealed in the podcast that he and the rest of his staff at SpaceX have to undergo regular drug testing for marijuana, after he went viral in 2018 for smoking a joint on an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience.
'I did get a lot of backlash because it's still federally illegal,' Musk revealed to host Kyle Forgeard, group members Salim and
