Sick American basketball player jailed in Indonesia over cannabis gummies pleads for early release

[#item_full_content] [[{“value”:”Jarred Shaw’s globe-trotting basketball career has taken him to 20 different ​teams across the world but a stint in Indonesia has resulted in the American languishing in jail with deteriorating health after falling foul of the ‌country’s notoriously tough anti-narcotics laws.
The 35-year-old Texan admitted to importing 132 cannabis gummies but only to help relieve the symptoms of Crohn’s disease, a chronic inflammation of the digestive tract which can be eased by Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) as well as steroids and immunosuppressants.
While drug trafficking can be punishable by death in Indonesia, Shaw was last December found guilty of the lesser charge of possession and sentenced to 26 months ​in prison in Tangerang, the city where he had been playing for the Hawks club in the Indonesian Basketball League.
The former Oklahoma State and Utah State ​forward told Reuters that incarceration had been disastrous for his health and is pleading for international pressure to be put on the ⁠Indonesian authorities to release him before he suffers permanent damage.”}]]  Read More