Joe Rogan: ‘No one should be in jail for weed’, calls Brittney Griner’s Russian incarceration ‘terrible’

Through Maureen Meihan

Joe Rogan has, in his own unique way, joined the chorus over Brittney Griner’s cannabis incarceration.

“Shit, it’s terrible. It’s free. It’s like she’s the clearest form of a political prisoner,” he said on one of his final shows, The Joe Rogan Experience. “In that sense, I’m not a very political person. I’d love to see them solve that, but I think it’s just part of a bigger problem.”

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Don’t we know, Joe? Thousands of cannabis prisoners are still behind bars simply for possessing a plant that is in some form legal in over half the United States.

“She could do 10 years in prison over there… She’s been over there for months. But here’s what’s important… People freak out about it, don’t they? Russia must let her go. We’ve got people in America incarcerated for marijuana right now, and they’ve been incarcerated for f***ing years. For years and years and years. And there is none. There are thousands of them,” Rogan said.

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The American Civil Liberties Union has updated statistics and demographics on who gets arrested and who gets a passport these days.

“Of the 8.2 million marijuana arrests between 2001 and 2010, 88% were simply for marijuana use. Across the country, arrest data showed a consistent trend: significant racial bias. Despite roughly equal rates of use, blacks are 3.73 times more likely to be arrested for marijuana than whites,” according to a recent ACLU report.

“Imagine sitting in a cell for years, decades, even life, convicted of an activity that is no longer a crime, while thousands of other people build generational wealth by doing the exact same thing,” writes the Last Prisoner Project ( LPP). , which is on a global mission to leave no cannabis prisoner behind.

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Joe Rogan agrees: “When we discuss the horrific incarceration of Brittney Griner in Russia, consider this: there are tens of thousands of people currently in prison across America for cannabis. No one should be in jail for weed.”

Amen.

This article originally appeared on Benzinga and has been republished with permission.