'Shouldn't we free people in America?': elonmusk questions Biden's efforts to free Griner while US has prisoners for marijuana
You can now listen to Fox News articles!, an American basketball superstar and Olympic gold medalist, and expressed confusion at the White House's efforts to bring her back while drug users in the U.S. remain jailed.marijuana remains federally illegal"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 asked on the show.
"There are people in jail in America for the same stuff. Shouldn't we free them too? My opinion is that people should not be in jail for non-violent drug crimes." Elon Musk gestures as he speaks during a press conference at SpaceX's Starbase facility near Boca Chica Village in South Texas Feb. 10, 2022.of drug possession and drug smuggling and sentenced her to nine years in prison. She was also fined 1 million rubles, the equivalent of about $16,200.
"We put forward, as you know, a substantial proposal that Russia should engage with us on. And what Foreign Minister Lavrov said this morning and said publicly is that they are prepared to engage through channels we've established to do just that, and we'll be pursuing," Blinken said during a press conference at ASEAN.Musk is not a regular drug user himself, saying that he"I find weed's not that good for productivity," Musk said.
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