U.S. citizen Audrey Eliza Lorber, 19, has been held in a St. Petersburg jail for over a month \u2014 and all because she allegedly tried to leave Russia with about 19 grams of cannabis that she received through a stateside medical program. <\/p>\n
This is according to various reports<\/a> coming out of That section of the law Lorber is a film student based in New York City, with a YouTube \u201cAccording to the investigation, Lorber acquired cannabis weighing 19.05 g in the United States at an unspecified time,\u201d the Joint Press Service announced on Telegram<\/a>. \u201cThe accused kept this drug with her for personal consumption. Cannabis was discovered in her things during the search in Pulkovo [Airport]. The [recommendation] held by the accused for the use of marijuana as part of a medical program, filed in the United States, does not apply to the territory of the Russian Federation. Lorber pleaded guilty.\u201d<\/p>\n CrimeRussia<\/a> noted that the Kresty Prison is just a decade away from being 300 years old. It has been a staple of Russian history, hosting everyone from the last ministers of Czars to the victims of Stalin\u2019s purges who were stuffed into isolation cells with 15 others in a space designed for one. It doesn\u2019t make a lot of sense why a 19-year-old with a little bit of marijuana would be forced to endure the same conditions as some of the greatest enemies of the Russian, Soviet, then Russian-again state. <\/p>\n The Moscow Times<\/a> noted in 2018, One young gay man told the Moscow Times the tale of police \u201cThey told me they would charge me with possession of 7 grams of TELL US,<\/strong> have you traveled internationally with cannabis? <\/p>\n The post U.S. Student Held in Russian Jail For a Month Over Medical Marijuana Possession<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n
U.S. citizen Audrey Eliza Lorber, 19, has been held in a St. Petersburg jail for over a month \u2014 and all because she allegedly tried to leave Russia with about 19 grams of cannabis that she received through a stateside medical program. This is according to various reports coming outContinue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50,81,4013,130,6534],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37901,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37900\/revisions\/37901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nthe Russian Federation in the last 48 hours. On Monday, Sept. 2, the Joint
\nPress Service of the courts of St. Petersburg announced that the Moscow
\nDistrict Court of St. Petersburg registered a criminal case against Lorber. She
\nis accused of committing a crime under Part 1 of Article 228 of the Criminal
\nCode of the Russian Federation. <\/p>\n
\ndealing<\/a> with Lorber\u2019s possible punishment for personal cannabis use
\nindicates she could be hit with a fine of up to 40,000 roubles, about $600 U.S.
\ndollars. Other possibilities include a compulsory work for a term of up to 480
\nhours, corrective labor for a term of up to two years, or \u201cby restriction of
\nliberty for a term of up to three years,\u201d which sounds like a prison sentence.<\/p>\n
\nchannel that has amassed over 22,000 followers. According to her website<\/a>, Lorber was born and
\nraised in Staten Island, New York. She started her YouTube channel right before
\nshe entered high school and has carried it over to Pace University in Manhattan,
\nwhere she should be starting her sophomore year as a film major. Instead, she\u2019s
\nin a Russian prison. <\/p>\n
\nsearch seemingly happened when Lorber was on her way home from the trip to
\nRussia. The site also expects Lorber to get off with a fine, but she\u2019s already
\nbeen in St. Petersburg\u2019s Kresty Prison for a month. <\/p>\n
\nover 100,000 people went to jail in Russia under the same Article 228 of the
\ncriminal code that Lorber is being charged under. Activists in Russia say
\nArticle 228 is
\nalso used as a tool to go after people on the fringe of Russian society<\/a>,
\nsuch as people in the LGBTQ community or journalists working to oppose
\ngovernment corruption. <\/p>\n
\nluring him to an encounter via Tinder, telling him to bring weed. When he got
\nthere, two police greeted him and began searching him. He was faced with the
\nopportunity to pay a bribe or have his life ruined. <\/p>\n
\nmarijuana and open a criminal case against me, even though I had much less on
\nme,\u201d he said. \u201cIt would have been the end of my university career and possibly
\nmy future.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n
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