[AinderS]

On the other hand, those US laws, if they carry comparable sentences as she is facing, are equally unjust. If this case is what it takes to realize how disproportionately cruel the US laws are, and to get them changed, then so be it.

I will also speculate that most of the people agitating for her release are also opposed to those US laws you mentioned, so it's not hypocritical for them to lobby for her release, even if it may be hypocritical for the US as a whole to focus on her, without releasing the many non-violent low-level drug offenders they imprison.

[locallost]

I side with her, as I would if this had happened to her in the US, but the OP has a point. It could've happened to her in the US, especially because she is black. Not all people that defend her are hypocrites, but a large portion needs to look in the mirror. The ACLU says: "Despite roughly equal usage rates, Blacks are 3.73 times more likely than whites to be arrested for marijuana"

https://www.aclu.org/gallery/marijuana-arrests-numbers