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Basketball star Brittney Griner, a center for the Phoenix Mercury, shown during a 2019 WNBA game.
Russian officials stated that they found vape cartridges containing cannabis oil in Brittney Griner's luggage when she was detained at a Russian airport on February 17, 2022.1