Ken Burch
Aug 10, 2022

She wasn't selling heroin or anything- she had a less than one ounce bottle of hashish oil for personal use, which she had clearly just forgotten was in the suitcase at all. Given what Russian athletic officials make their athletes take- remember how their entire Olympic team was disqualified at the last summer games- who are they to be sanctimonious about this at all? Brittney made a trivial mistake that affected no one else- it's not as if she was trying to become the Pablo Escobar of Moscow.

Ken Burch
Ken Burch

Written by Ken Burch

Retired Alaska ferryboat steward, grandparent, sometime poet. Radical yet independent of dogma. Likes nice days, playing banjo and not as yet dying of Covid.

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