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- blackinthmiddle, on 02/04/2009, -1/+26I guess Time is desperate for ad revenue. Anyway, all ten on one page.
10. Michael Phelps
9. Michael Irving
8. Jennifer Capriati
7. The entire Trailblazer team!
6. Darryl and Doc
5. Ricky Williams
4. Bob Probert and Kevin Stevens
3. Santonio Holmes
2. Pedro Guerrero and Orlando Cepeda
1. Shawn Kemp
The list seems to be just ten random athletes. Whatever. This should be "How to get diggers to donate 10 ad hits to Time". - Frankyfan3, on 02/04/2009, -0/+9"The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this."
Albert Einstein - Physicist, Nobel Prize Winner
"One of the problems that the marijuana reform movement consistently faces is that everyone wants to talk about what marijuana does, but no one ever wants to look at what marijuana prohibition does.
* Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night.
* Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people.
* Marijuana does not suppress medical research.
* Marijuana does not peek in bedroom windows.
Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could."
-- Richard Cowan, Former head of NORML
"Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded."
- Abraham Lincoln - andersleet, on 02/04/2009, -0/+7so 8/10 of those were for marijuana. popular yes. detrimental? phelps' 14 medals along with the 7 other all-star athlete's accomplishments beg to differ.
- freshgrease, on 02/04/2009, -0/+41. Hear about Olympic gold medalist smoking pot
2. Come up with the idea of making an article based an sports starts getting busted (oh how original /s)
3. ?????????
4. Profit.
Stupid news agency milking every opportunity they have. - Rivfader, on 02/04/2009, -0/+3I don't really care about the weed smokers. Weed is harmless as long as it's not in the hands of a moron.
Drunk driver, roid junkies, and hardcore drug users tho, they deserve whats coming to them. - mrseptic, on 02/04/2009, -0/+3No Ben Johnson?
- diggnidy, on 02/04/2009, -0/+3phelps? really?
- Frankyfan3, on 02/04/2009, -0/+2Why should I have to work on re-phrasing the sentiments of others which agree with my perspective?
Especially, since I, as a random digg user have not nearly as much clout with people as Abe Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Albert Einstein... seriously, who wants to listen to me? People who agree with me, maybe.
But those kids, among others, have some capital in the minds of many people that don't realize how detrimental the continuation of prohibition is and will continue to be... and I am more then happy to spend their capital in the name of justice and rationality.
I did find some of these quotes on a website, but many of my favorite Anti-Prohibition quotes, statistics and stories were relayed to me by friends and fellow reform minded people.
Anyways, the comment box is too small to fit the whole Safer Commission report... but here's the highlight at the end for you:
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, increase public safety)
...
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.
Thanks Nixon! /s - eyeninja, on 02/04/2009, -0/+2Phelps is the greatest athlete that ever lived, officially.It really takes alot of arguments out about the badnessness of marijuana.
- andersleet, on 02/04/2009, -0/+2keep spreading the good word my friend!
- degenerasian, on 02/04/2009, -0/+2Any drug list without Ben Johnson has no credibility.
- smoke81, on 02/04/2009, -0/+1Dugg for Nate Newton
- coreydoucorey, on 02/11/2009, -0/+1Not very clever post, but... Such things make me a bit crazy http://manxl.org
- camaroz06, on 02/04/2009, -0/+1Pot?!?!?
How are the majority of these "drug busts" and how are most of them top ten in anyways?
What about:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_drug_trial ... - jerstud56, on 02/04/2009, -1/+2some diggers*
Anyone with Firefox and Adblock Plus doesn't see the ads. At least I don't. - 2448x, on 02/04/2009, -0/+1So he has some weed at a party, theres beer in the background too. OH NO! BEER?!?!
Really people, I'd say about half of guys his age have smoked pot at least once before. - DjOverEZ, on 02/04/2009, -0/+1"Just very happy a certain USAIN BOLT is clean :)"
Just you wait... - LoJack, on 02/05/2009, -0/+1So much for american 'athletes' - junkies.
- mmittimm, on 02/04/2009, -0/+1Time is even worse at top ten lists than Cracked.
- inactive, on 02/04/2009, -0/+1again...if you tink that Phelps went anywhere NEAR marijuana during his training for the Olympics, you are a fool
- techguru2006, on 02/04/2009, -1/+2Trailblazers FTW... it would have been great to see Rasheed high.
- level32, on 02/04/2009, -0/+1No Ross Rebagliati?
- FreedomsFire, on 02/04/2009, -0/+1Only half?
- SamCook1, on 02/04/2009, -1/+1Surely more NFL players are on illegal performance enhancing drugs. I mean look at the size of some of them and you think thats just from suppliments?
- flamesrule, on 02/04/2009, -0/+0The sponsors care you idiot. They are the ones who make millions off the athletes. Parents care because their kids are the ones who look up to the athletes. They are glamorized, idolized because they do things a lot of people can't. The money that the leagues and teams make off of the players is enormous and when they do stupid things like cheat on their wives (Kobe), gamble illegally (Jordan), do drugs (too many to mention), they take a huge hit on the merchandise. Kobe was a disaster after it came out that he had sex with that woman and only by keeping himself clean, staying with his wife and apologizing publicly did he manage to get back on top.
- iloveschlau, on 02/05/2009, -0/+0haha couldnt have said it any better. LEGALIZE
- suprememilo, on 02/04/2009, -1/+1Marijuana aside, why are athletes "role models" sure you should hope your kids aspire to do well in everything, but as moral role models, who cares what athletes do on their own time.
- viraj86, on 02/04/2009, -1/+1Just very happy a certain USAIN BOLT is clean :)
- inactive, on 02/04/2009, -0/+0officially?
- inactive, on 02/04/2009, -1/+0don't you ever think for yourself? Or do you just go to famous quote sites and choose what you think applies?
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