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- bixby1, on 02/02/2009, -9/+295I'm glad he's supported. He ripped that bong like a pro.
- JoeF8577, on 02/02/2009, -6/+26010 Gold Metals and it seems like the guy breaks his own world record every time he touches the goddamned water!
Let this man smoke in peace, if anything, he has earned it.
call me when the pic of him shooting heroin surfaces, then i'll be disappointed. - Jsoul87, on 02/02/2009, -5/+191Translation: We all smoke/have smoked pot too at his age and to demonize him for that would be hypocrisy.
- speedk0re, on 02/02/2009, -5/+157from http://www.theagitator.com/2009/02/01/a-letter-id- ...
A Letter I’d Like To See (But Won’t)
Sunday, February 1st, 2009
Dear America,
I take it back. I don’t apologize.
Because you know what? It’s none of your goddamned business. I work my ass off 10 months per year. It’s that hard work that gave you all those gooey feelings of patriotism last summer. If during my brief window of down time I want to relax, enjoy myself, and partake of a substance that’s a hell of a lot less bad for me than alcohol, tobacco, or, frankly, most of the prescription drugs most of you are taking, well, you can spare me the lecture.
I put myself through hell. I make my body do things nature never really intended us to endure. All world-class athletes do. We do it because you love to watch us push ourselves as far as we can possibly go. Some of us get hurt. Sometimes permanently. You’re watching the Super Bowl tonight. You’re watching 300 pound men smash each while running at full speed, in full pads. You know what the average life expectancy of an NFL player is? Fifty-five. That’s about 20 years shorter than your average non-NFL player. Yet you watch. And cheer. And you jump up spill your beer when a linebacker lays out a wide receiver on a crossing route across the middle. The harder he gets hit, the louder and more enthusiastically you scream.
Yet you all get bent out of shape when Ricky Williams, or I, or Josh Howard smoke a little dope to relax. Why? Because the idiots you’ve elected to make your laws have have without a shred of evidence beat it into your head that smoking marijuana is something akin to drinking antifreeze, and done only by dirty hippies and sex offenders.
You’ll have to pardon my cynicism. But I call *****. You don’t give a damn about my health. You just get a voyeuristic thrill from watching an elite athlete fall from grace–all the better if you get to exercise a little moral righteousness in the process. And it’s hypocritical righteousness at that, given that 40 percent of you have tried pot at least once in your lives.
Here’s a crazy thought: If I can smoke a little dope and go on to win 14 Olympic gold medals, maybe pot smokers aren’t doomed to lives of couch surfing and video games, as our moronic government would have us believe. In fact, the list of successful pot smokers includes not just world class athletes like me, Howard, Williams, and others, it includes Nobel Prize winners, Pulitzer Prize winners, the last three U.S. presidents, several Supreme Court justices, and luminaries and success stories from all sectors of business and the arts, sciences, and humanities.
So go ahead. Ban me from the next Olympics. Yank my endorsement deals. Stick your collective noses in the air and get all indignant on me. While you’re at it, keep arresting cancer and AIDS patients who dare to smoke the stuff because it deadens their pain, or enables them to eat. Keep sending in goon squads to kick down doors and shoot little old ladies, maim innocent toddlers, handcuff elderly post-polio patients to their beds at gunpoint, and slaughter the family pet.
Tell you what. I’ll make you a deal. I’ll apologize for smoking pot when every politician who ever did drugs and then voted to uphold or strengthen the drug laws marches his ass off to the nearest federal prison to serve out the sentence he wants to impose on everyone else for committing the same crimes he committed. I’ll apologize when the sons, daughters, and nephews of powerful politicians who get caught possessing or dealing drugs in the frat house or prep school get the same treatment as the no-name, probably black kid caught on the corner or the front stoop doing the same thing.
Until then, I for one will have none of it. I smoked pot. I liked it. I’ll probably do it again. I refuse to apologize for it, because by apologizing I help perpetuate this stupid lie, this idea that what someone puts into his own body on his own time is any of the government’s damned business. Or any of yours. I’m not going to bend over and allow myself to be propaganda for this wasteful, ridiculous, immoral war.
Go ahead and tear me down if you like. But let’s see you rationalize in your next lame ONDCP commercial how the greatest ***** swimmer the world has ever seen . . . is also a proud pot smoker.
Yours,
Michael Phelps - theskillwithin, on 02/02/2009, -2/+148"nonissue" AMEN
- enantiodromia, on 02/02/2009, -0/+119Marijuana has clearly destroyed this man's life, as it always does every single time anyone smokes it, ever.
/s - purzzzell, on 02/02/2009, -2/+75"private matter" and "nonissue" - why doesn't the US federal gov. see it the same way?
- Mohdoo, on 02/02/2009, -3/+72If anything, the bong pic is good for sponsors. Now their product is appealing to smokers ;)
- twistedwriter, on 02/02/2009, -3/+60What, when he raped someone?
- noncn4mst, on 04/15/2009, -9/+61I wish he wouldn't wuss out and say it was a bad judgment call. With his incredible media presence, he might make a difference.
It's just weed. LEGALIZE IT. - sdellboy, on 02/02/2009, -3/+46"Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn't the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit . . . unnatural?”
We miss you Bill.... - yocouchdigga, on 02/03/2009, -2/+38he deserves another medal for this, imo.
- strebalicious, on 02/03/2009, -1/+36I haven't smoked pot. Like, ever. But I still think they should leave this dude alone.
- nymphetamine, on 02/02/2009, -1/+33Go on...
- Coven, on 02/03/2009, -0/+31I thought it was 14 golds?
- davidbeile, on 02/03/2009, -1/+31No, actually. It doesn't.
- inactive, on 02/03/2009, -0/+30Even our own President Obama admitted that he smoked some dope in his time, obviously he wasn't a dropout loser like these idiot politicians would like us to believe.
I mean honestly, so Phelps smoked weed, it isnt like he went on a mass puppy kicking spree now is it.
Everyone who has an opinion about marijuana that have never even done it or seen the culture around it just needs to shut the ***** up already, you have no right to say anything about it. - Qumahlin, on 02/03/2009, -1/+31False.
- inactive, on 02/02/2009, -0/+28his sponsors should require him to ***** up periodically. they get coverage each time he does
- Gibletoid, on 02/02/2009, -0/+26I don't get it. He already won the medals. He's not even technically a swimmer right now.
We here in Canada had Ross Rebagliati win the gold medal for snowboarding and he tested positive for weed and was able to keep his medal.
This means that Phelps smoking a bong is a non issue, before or after the olympics.
Almost everybody knows someone who smokes.
LET it GO. - TWillz, on 02/03/2009, -1/+26I would digg this 420 times if I could.
- panic, on 02/03/2009, -0/+23Oh wow, I guess you CAN smoke weed and be successful. Who woulda thought...
- Stiverton, on 02/03/2009, -1/+24Hey man, we have been fighting for people to respect our choice to smoke weed now you wont respect someone's choice not to?
- Mo0eY, on 02/02/2009, -2/+22I loved the comment, "Phelps is in hot water right now." When is the guy not in water?
- inactive, on 02/02/2009, -1/+21Anyone shocked that the IOC supports him? Like they are squeaky clean....
- garryw, on 02/02/2009, -1/+21I will never buy wheaties again!
- strebalicious, on 02/02/2009, -0/+19I wouldn't be able to tell that was Phelps if it weren't for the captions. Let the man smoke in peace.
- vat0r, on 02/03/2009, -0/+18Future NORML spokesman.
- Coven, on 02/03/2009, -0/+17skill, you're referencing a movie called "Super High Me" as scientific proof that weed increases lung capacity? You don't see a problem with that?
Also, we're talking about a sample size of 1 here. SHM was a great movie. Believe me, I laughed my stoned as ***** ass off throughout the whole thing, but it is by no means a scientific study into the effects of weed on the human body. - spookyttws, on 02/02/2009, -1/+18My quote from yesterday's story :This is news? I'm sure a lot of Olympians do. They're young, really cut, rich, and (from what I've read) ***** like rabbits. Do you really expect them to be sober when they're out partying?
- Qumahlin, on 02/03/2009, -0/+16@theskillwithin
I smoke daily. It doesn't. In Super High Me he starts out with a lung capacity of 92%, at the end he has a capacity of 89%. A 3% decrease just like Gromer said. - leonardutah, on 02/03/2009, -0/+16"I inhaled frequently. That was the point."
-Obama. - Rivetgeek, on 02/03/2009, -0/+16Marijuana ate my baby.
- Qumahlin, on 02/03/2009, -1/+16Sadly your both talking out your ass and act as if thats happened before. This was Marijuana. Not Crack, Heroin, or any performance enhancing drugs.
This is no more an issue than him smoking a cigarette in some countries. - Devaney, on 02/03/2009, -1/+16hahaha, they compared him to Kobe...yeah, rape and smoking weed are on the same level.
- Coven, on 02/03/2009, -0/+14You can blame his publicist for that comment.
- Cattywampus, on 02/03/2009, -0/+14Me neither, I'm switching to Frosted Flakes. (Wait a minute, Tony the Tiger's muscles look a bit too... pumped up. Bet he's a steroid user!)
- inactive, on 02/03/2009, -0/+13because the center of the country votes like it's 1954
- xxmjumpman23xx, on 02/03/2009, -1/+14Yes, you're right it's 14 not 10
- Inflammo, on 02/03/2009, -0/+13It's nice to see the organization not backing down like babies. The media is making way to big of a deal out of it.
- rolosworld, on 02/03/2009, -2/+15well...
the guy has 16 Olympic medals under his belt...
he smokes pot...
the guy has 16 FREAKING OLYMPIC MEDALS!!
is it me or does he breaks the "role model" of a pot head? - tidu, on 02/03/2009, -0/+11I wonder why you don't hear of any "secret abortion" stories?
- xxmjumpman23xx, on 02/03/2009, -1/+12Dude, you are a ***** genius.
- dafragsta, on 02/03/2009, -0/+11He's a lot cooler because he did.
- Fl0ydP1nkert0n, on 02/03/2009, -0/+11Taco Bell sponsorship in 3...
- gromer, on 02/03/2009, -0/+10Doesn't it go down by 3%?
- AlienMushroom, on 02/03/2009, -1/+11No, should be 15. He has just won one for smoking that bong like nobody else!
- hootie233, on 02/02/2009, -0/+9What year is this, and who cares?
- Styvo, on 02/03/2009, -3/+12He needs to grow up?
Like smoking weed = being a child?
Someone needs to find pictures of that bitch smoking pot. - Betrayal, on 02/03/2009, -0/+9Who cares. Probably everybody in the world smoked some pot at some point.
Why don't we rather talk about CIA drug trafficking?
Legalize Marijuana. Alcohol is much more destructive and addictive than hemp will ever be. -
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