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- VeniceCA, on 02/06/2009, -13/+238Phelps alone bust the myth. Dedicated to his sport, hard working, over achieving, competitive, ...
- mytealjacket, on 02/06/2009, -3/+204According to Arnold, marijuana “is not a drug, it’s a leaf.”
- Hetman, on 02/06/2009, -5/+150http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://bago ...
These two people have inhaled. That is all I am saying. Come on just look at them both. - rlode6762, on 02/06/2009, -5/+125"Clinton purportedly tried and failed to smoke a joint"
False, only someone high or drunk would hit Monica. - iammzac, on 02/07/2009, -2/+104..or someone married to Hillary Clinton.
- tonycomp, on 02/07/2009, -4/+92i'm pretty perplexed as to why alcohol is legal and pot is illegal...
- gonorea007, on 02/07/2009, -6/+81Here's the deal:
Dumb people that decide to smoke pot, sit and watch TV. So when the masses smoke, the masses are content doing nothing.
Smart people who smoke pot think deeply and see new ways to do things. When added to intelligence, pot sparks their creativity.
I believe it has less to do with the drug so much as who does it. - inactive, on 02/07/2009, -0/+67I appreciate what he's trying to say, but the whole 'leaf' thing bothers me. I don't know about you, but I smoke the buds not the leaves.
- daqq, on 02/07/2009, -7/+69Smoking pot... it will prevent you from ever being successful in life. You'll never be a gold medalist in the olympics, a best selling author, the governor of California, or exceedingly wealthy. And you can be damn sure you'll never be president...
- kaoitik, on 02/07/2009, -8/+57Legalize already!
- inactive, on 02/07/2009, -2/+51Carl Sagan was the best example of an over-achieving stoner. Sagan was a regular smoker.
Sagan's fantastic essay on weed....
http://www.marijuana-uses.com/essays/002.html - theskillwithin, on 02/07/2009, -0/+43looks like they found a way to inhale lsd
- blah247, on 02/07/2009, -7/+45The problem with some people, they consider smoking a little pot as being a raging 'pothead'... There's a difference between a guy who likes to drink some beers... and the guy who drinks beers alone then hits his kids and rapes their family dog.
- blah247, on 02/07/2009, -2/+39Don't believe I would consider him a 'pothead'...
- Sublimin4L, on 02/07/2009, -0/+35She inhales *****, not marijuana.
- artyda1manparty, on 02/07/2009, -3/+38dugg for a correct spelling of nietzsche.
- RudeTurnip, on 02/07/2009, -2/+37I came here to mention Carl Sagan, too. Dugg!
- Frankyfan3, on 02/07/2009, -1/+35google: Harry J. Anslinger + Dupont + William Randolph Hearst.
They were far more concerned with banning and dispensing of the versatile HEMP fibers that offered competition to the rising tree pulp and plastics market...
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/hemp/history/n ...
Also, Harry J. was in charge of enforcing the alcohol prohibition laws, and grabbed onto the devil's weed in order to keep himself and his men employed after that policy's utter failure.
The first federal law was passed with no scientific examination or input from the medical community... based almost completely on fabricated news stories and the testimony of a man with a lot to loose if he didn't have new prohibition laws to enforce.
Ya, it's perplexing, but that is a pretty short summery of the why.
Nixon didn't help, when he buried the Shafer Commission findings:
http://www.druglibrary.org/Schaffer/Library/studie ...
The Commission feels that the criminalization of possession of marihuana for personal is socially self-defeating as a means of achieving this objective.
(objective = lower drug use and crime)
We have carefully analyzed the interrelationship between marihuana the drug, marihuana use as a behavior, and marihuana as a social problem. Recognizing the extensive degree of misinformation about marihuana as a drug, we have tried to demythologize it. Viewing the use of marihuana in its wider social context, we have tried to desymbolize it.
Considering the range of social concerns in contemporary America, marihuana does not, in our considered judgment, rank very high. We would deemphasize marihuana as a problem.
I feel like one of those "The More You Know" ads now. :) - ElGubrush, on 02/07/2009, -1/+34For the record, there was no weed in there, it was just an empty bubbler. It's the only way Michael Phelps can breathe above water.
- twst1up, on 02/07/2009, -4/+34um...you don't "do" pot, you smoke it.
- willr91, on 02/07/2009, -1/+29FTA: "We haven’t included many creative types on this list, mostly because they’re all potheads. Every actor, musician and artist ever is a huge pothead. It’s a fact, don’t dispute us."
I think Willie Nelson would fit into the category of musician. - inactive, on 02/07/2009, -1/+28for someone who joined digg in 2006, it is amazing to me that you haven't picked up on the fact that most diggers like weed.
- feignNU, on 02/07/2009, -1/+27no coca is a leaf.
- Frankyfan3, on 02/07/2009, -1/+25actually, there are other options:
vaporize
eat in delicious food - smotpoker, on 02/07/2009, -17/+40I wouldn't call most of these tools "successful" at anything other than being ***** tools.
WTF is Carl Sagan? Nietzsche? John Lennon? ***** awful list... - Bloodwine, on 02/07/2009, -4/+25Phelps also talks like he is touched in the head
- inactive, on 02/07/2009, -2/+23I'm sure there are thousands of successful people who smoke cannabis.
All that ***** about making you go insane, killing braincells, being more addictive than heroin....all government propaganda!
Sorry I have to cut this short...gotta meet up with my connect for a sack of banana kush...mmmm - feignNU, on 02/07/2009, -1/+18ding ding ding! We have a winner!
- bastardx, on 02/06/2009, -4/+21"We haven’t included many creative types on this list, mostly because they’re all potheads. Every actor, musician and artist ever is a huge pothead. It’s a fact, don’t dispute us."
SFT - xceptionaly, on 02/07/2009, -1/+18Eh. Monica is a big girl, but I guess I'd hit it if I had nothing else going on (aka married to hillary).
- ancalagon73, on 02/07/2009, -4/+21Not in my book. I would say pothead is more akin to an alcoholic.
- 420buddah, on 02/07/2009, -0/+17Don't forget about nobel laureate Richard Feynman.
- Javy42, on 02/07/2009, -0/+16Bill Maher should definitely be on the list instead of Montel... seriously who even likes Montel?
- jamesduh, on 02/07/2009, -1/+17Legalize it already!
- rockon4life45, on 02/07/2009, -11/+26The 10 Most Successful [Former] Potheads on the Planet…Who Admit it
fixd
You know that Barack Obama hasn't done pot in years. - GoTeamScotch, on 02/07/2009, -2/+17lol. What about the stereotypes like black people being theives, or italians being gangmembers, or Jews being greedy? I think it goes on to prove its affects depend on the person using it. It brings out sides of people, but does not create them. If you're artistic, pot can expand your creativity. If you're super logical, it will expand upon that in your mind. If you're insecure, it will expand upon that and make you scared and paranoid as *****. The across the board standard that I've witnessed is it brings out the humanity in you a little more.. makes you more susceptible to the simple beauty in life and it CAN cloud up your mind and make you lose focus, so some people just go with it and veg out and enjoy feeling funny. My point is that it totally depends on the person using it. judging from the stereotype, it seems like most people are lazy stoners who sit in bean bag chairs watching The Matrix. But that's what makes stereotypes stereotypes.
- dafragsta, on 02/07/2009, -0/+15It just kills me every time I read that. Maybe because I hear it playing in my head.
- verynegative, on 02/07/2009, -0/+15Cause they are talking about people who still live.
I liked the list.
Plus:
"We haven’t included many creative types on this list, mostly because they’re all potheads. Every actor, musician and artist ever is a huge pothead. It’s a fact, don’t dispute us" - Frankyfan3, on 02/07/2009, -0/+15The USA spends 300 Million dollars more annually on fighting the war on drugs than we spend on fighting the illicit trade of human beings.
It is one of the most profitable and growing illicit industries in the world, and we are wasting resources that could be used to fight this.
I do not condone meth, heroine, cocaine and prescription drug abuse, but I do believe that they are as much PUBLIC HEALTH concerns as cannabis (if not moreso), and the problems we have from them are not going to fixed by making it a CRIMINAL JUSTICE issue.
As the Shafer commission points out, among other scientifically minded analysis, making these criminal justice issues only encourage crime, and dismantles the public's respect for the rule of law in general.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36KLuAZd8Qk - xanadu2113, on 02/07/2009, -2/+17Dugg for Rick Steves! Happy travels!
- inactive, on 02/07/2009, -4/+19Why is Montel Williams on this list? A little disingenuous to put his "success" on par with Barack Obama and Stephen King, they must have been looking for filler
- feignNU, on 02/07/2009, -1/+15Dude, there are just stupid people. Some of them happen to be potheads. You have it all backwards. Does drinking alcohol make you a redneck wife-beater just because there are drunk rednecks in the world who beat their wives?
- gonorea007, on 02/07/2009, -1/+14No, I meant what I said. Intelligent people tend to have a large knowledge base and natural curiosity. When they smoke, they take that knowledge base and begin seeing uncommon links between them; thus, 'sparking' (intended pun) their creativity.
Whether innate or not, it is 'their' creativity.
Wiseinheimers.... - estacado, on 02/06/2009, -4/+17What about Jenna Haze?
- jewelann311, on 02/06/2009, -12/+25Why isn't Willie Nelson on this list?
- alapoet, on 02/06/2009, -15/+28Props to my Pot Peeps!
- Frankyfan3, on 02/07/2009, -0/+13Because the last time cannabis became illegal it continued organized crime in the U.S.
- CynicSight, on 02/07/2009, -0/+12Man, I miss Carl Sagan... That guy was the *****.
- Tyrghast, on 02/07/2009, -2/+14Dugg for Ted Turner, he's admitted to still smoking every day.
- SuckMyDigg, on 02/07/2009, -4/+16Usually out of fear and ignorance, but whatever...
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