Olympic Gold Medalist Michael Phelps Admits To Smoking Pot…OH WOW THE SHAME
Published on February 3, 2009 by spencer · 4 Comments
*photo by AP*
Some people are all butt-hurt over gold medal winner Michael Phelps smoking some weed. They feel disappointed, betrayed, conned that the US Golden Boy enjoyed cannabis at a South Carolina house party. Now the county sheriff is sharpening up the handcuffs and contemplating criminal charges.
Here’s an idea. Maybe…just maybe…smoking pot isn’t a big deal. Keep yourself open to new ideas…such as, taking a few bong rips is as big of a deal as drinking a few beers. The fallout from Nancy Regan’s D.A.R.E. campaign has created a nation of sweaty-palmed “moralists,” at the same time ready to condemn others and purposely blind to their own faults. Of the pundits shouting for the punishment of Phelps, I would be surprised if less than half of them are themselves burdened by alcoholism, or addiction to pills, prescribed or not.
Sorry, didn’t intend for this to become a rant. Maybe I should take a bong load and chill the F out.
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No shit! I mean why the hell are the cops bothering with this it’s the LAMEest thing ever! It makes me so mad. I for one don’t smoke the ole reefer but mann I would much rather people be stoned that drunk. Have you ever heard of a stoner starting a riot, fight, burning a couch, NO.
The cops should be out there catching real criminals! You know actually doing some POLICE work (like finding my stolen laptop)
Is it really a big deal that Michael Phelps wants to hit the reefer every now and then? No. First of all, it’s his life, and it’s not anyone’s business what he’s doing. Second of all, marijuana is not bad. It does not lead to addiction (in the medical sense of the word), does not lead to crime, and does not lead to harder drugs such as cocaine, heroine, morphine, etc. If you’ve ever tried it, you should know that it’s quite relaxing. I don’t blame him at all. You don’t think that maybe the guy needs a break, and maybe weed gives it to him. Fuck the media, and fuck people who think they know everything about ganja. Do some research, try it out, then criticize Michael Phelps for doing it. Fucking idiots.
i am now totally convinced that smoking weed is evil since it limited Phelps to winning only 8 gold medals in a single Olympic appearance
It’s got nothing to do with/ Phelps in this case. The authorities, government and the omnipresent “MAN” are scared out of their fucking gourd because we’ve turned him into a treasure, a national icon, someone for the youngins to believe in. We’ve put this man among gods.
Now the people in the suits have to come to terms with the fact that all this propaganda thrown down about pot, and possibly drugs, the counterculture, etc., is all just concepts formulated to scare kids into not questioning the authorities’ views on why it’s ‘dangerous’. All of a sudden, they realize a kid somewhere in the mid-west might be saying ‘Wait… if he can smoke pot and become this icon of mainstream America and accomplish something truly amazing, how bad can this stuff be for me?”.
Is that a good thing? In my opinion, yes and no. Yes because this propaganda against having different views on subjects that the government disapproves of is way blown out of proportion… it’s all fear tactics based in weak rooted logic. I say no because Phelps does smoke pot, and he’s still a badass national sports hero, but there’s also the other side of things kids aren’t going to think about; which is the fact that he also trained his ass off and dedicated his life to getting where he needs to be. As most of us have witnessed through either ourselves or people we know, pot can be a deterrent for making you get off the couch and better your life, which inherently has a potential to effect kids negatively with irresponsible use of the given drug.
I’m truly hoping that they don’t pull some bullshit move like trying to strip him of his medals or anything just to prove a point that this substance is ‘evil’… fuck it, let’s all go take some rips and think about this one, amiright?