US basketball player Brittney Griner, who has been arrested in Russia, has defended herself in a criminal case for a drug offense in a court near Moscow. According to a report by the Russian news agency Interfax, she used medical marijuana in consultation with her doctor as a painkiller, she said on Wednesday in the court in Khimki, Moscow region. This is standard practice in the United States. “I had no intention of violating any law of the Russian Federation,” the agency quoted her as saying. At the same time, Griner admitted once more that he had the drugs with him.
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