KHIMKI | American women's basketball star Brittney Griner said at her trial near Moscow on Wednesday that she mistakenly brought medicinal cannabis to Russia and never intended to smuggle the drugs.

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"I did not have the idea, nor did I plan to introduce banned substances into Russia," she told the court in Khimki, near Moscow, where she has been on trial since early July, according to a journalist. AFP on the spot.