I mean, the Taliban out here stoning women for adultery and shit and that's legal and just.
Throwing someone in prison for a decade over a blunt is dumb.
And Russia is the only country that put more people per 100,000 than the USA. Just like the USA, it is a prison nation.
We already know that harsh prison sentences and harsh laws do not deter crime whatsoever. And drug enforcement laws fuels the drug trade.
Russia doesn't even punish their own super criminals nor would they ever extradite their own to another country. So it's not as if Russia is acting out of some sense of morality.
Russia is not Singapore.
BG is only locked up because she's American. Which is why the Stats Department do not suggest Americans go to China or Russia, because they'll lock your ass up for anything.
The proper protocol for what BG is accused of, for something that minor, is to send her ass back to America and ban her from entering the country.