"When Jarred Shaw, an American basketball player in Indonesia, stepped down to the lobby in his apartment complex earlier this year to collect a package containing illegally imported cannabis gummies, he thought that the medicine to ease his Crohn's disease had arrived. It had but so too had 10 undercover police officers. A video on social media shows Shaw, wearing a black T-shirt and shorts, shouting for help as the swarm of officers move to apprehend him."
"I use cannabis as a medicine, he told the Guardian over the phone from a prison just outside Indonesia's capital, Jakarta, in his first comments to the press since his May arrest. I have an inflammatory condition called Crohn's disease that's incurable. There's no medicine apart from cannabis that stops my stomach from aching. During the off-season Shaw lives in Thailand, where cannabis is subject to more liberal laws."
Jarred Shaw was arrested after collecting a package of illegally imported cannabis gummies in Indonesia, where undercover police apprehended him in a viral-video encounter. He now faces possible death or long imprisonment and is held in pre-trial detention while banned for life from the Indonesian Basketball League. Shaw previously helped Prawira Bandung win the 2023 IBL title and scored over 1,000 points across three seasons. He uses cannabis to manage an incurable inflammatory Crohn's condition and says health reasons prompted importing 132 gummies from Thailand, where laws are more permissive. He expresses regret, reports severe mental distress after arrest, and says faith and prison gym access are helping him cope.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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