{"id":1591962,"date":"2022-08-06T08:47:03","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T12:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1591962"},"modified":"2022-08-06T08:47:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T12:47:21","slug":"video-joe-rogan-hypocrisy-in-jailing-people-for-weed-while-demanding-brittney-griners-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/video-joe-rogan-hypocrisy-in-jailing-people-for-weed-while-demanding-brittney-griners-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Joe Rogan: Hypocrisy In Jailing People For Weed While Demanding Brittney Griner\u2019s Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvideo-joe-rogan-hypocrisy-in-jailing-people-for-weed-while-demanding-brittney-griners-release%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1591962&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Popular podcaster Joe Rogan recently questioned the outrage over the 9-1\/2-year prison term WNBA star Brittney Griner got in Russia. when there are thousands of Americans in jail for similar, pot-related offenses.<\/p>\n<p>Rogan stressed that the only difference between Griner and thousands of Americans jailed in the U.S. for similar offenses is that she\u2019s in Russia and can shoot a basketball<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Rogan recapped how Griner got arrested but then got to the crux of his point.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are freaking out over this, right? They\u2019re freaking out, \u2018Russia needs to let her go.\u2019 We have people right now in America locked up for marijuana, and they\u2019ve been locked up for f*cking years,\u201d Rogan said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Say what you want about Joe Rogan, but the man continually advocates for plant medicine. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BrittneyGriner?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BrittneyGriner<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UaZ1IMjJ7P\">pic.twitter.com\/UaZ1IMjJ7P<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kevin Carrillo (@KevinLCarrillo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KevinLCarrillo\/status\/1551756047764934658?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 26, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cFor years and years and year, and there\u2019s not one, there\u2019s thousands of them,\u201d he added indignantly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, what, they\u2019re not good at throwing a f*cking ball into a net? Is that what it is?\u201d he added. \u201cThey\u2019re not good at that one thing we like to watch, so those f*cking people don\u2019t get let out?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rogan has addressed the Griner prison sentence several times. On August 3, for instance, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbreak.com\/news\/2690601154333\/watch-joe-rogan-speaks-out-about-brittney-griner-s-horrific-imprisonment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called<\/a> the 9-1\/2-year sentence \u201chorrific\u201d and added that \u201cno one should be in jail for weed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, in a later podcast, he also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportskeeda.com\/mma\/news-fans-react-joe-rogan-advocates-justice-brittney-griner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Griner \u201cbroke the rules\u201d and that she can \u201cdeal with the consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reaction to Rogan\u2019s stance on those in prison in the U.S. for possession of pot was varied.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Some pointed out that there are very few people in jail in the U.S. just for possession:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nobody in America is doing 10 years for possessing a small quantity of cannabis oil<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 J13 (@jp131111185) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jp131111185\/status\/1555603390406840320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is a huge myth. Nobody is doing time for simple possession. They might have pled down and made it appear that way.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christian Gerst (@ManChristian) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ManChristian\/status\/1555625763638067206?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But others praised Rogan for his position:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We should reevaluate our current prison sentences and let people out if it&#8217;s just for marijuana. But Russia has Russian laws and I don&#8217;t think they&#8217;re going to bend those laws for us or for Brittney Griner. No way Putin wants to look soft to his own people.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dave Whiting \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\udfb8\ud83c\udfc8\ud83d\udc2c\ud83c\udf7a (@DaveWhi55847607) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DaveWhi55847607\/status\/1555615154305306625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Not really a fan Joe, but  you are 100% right on this\ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sundevil Doug (@DougSundevil) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DougSundevil\/status\/1555631142274969605?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i>Follow Warner Todd Huston on Facebook at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston\">facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston<\/a>, or Truth Social <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@WarnerToddHuston\">@WarnerToddHuston<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular podcaster Joe Rogan recently questioned the outrage over the 9-1\/2-year prison term WNBA star Brittney Griner got in Russia. when there are thousands of Americans in jail for similar,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1592156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1591962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1591962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1592156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1591962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1591962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1591962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}