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Re: Olympic gold medal winner Michael Phelps caught with cannabis pipe [Re: acid_kiss]
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He's one of many. It won't hurt him long term.

http://jezebel.com/5144624/35-celebrities-who-smoke-pot

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Re: Olympic gold medal winner Michael Phelps caught with cannabis pipe [Re: acid_kiss]
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acid_kiss said:
Of course he was smoking pot while competing, how else do you think he ate those 18,000 calories a day?


Seriously, I believe he would have to consume them in some concentrated form. I'm built more powerfully than him, but my stomach wouldn't be able to match that capacity in normal food.


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Re: Olympic gold medal winner Michael Phelps caught with cannabis pipe [Re: durian_2008]
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He knows how to choose his bongs.... :lol:


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Re: Olympic gold medal winner Michael Phelps caught with cannabis pipe [Re: GetTheFuckOut]
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GTFO said:
im so high right now

i dont even know what is going on

but

if you go swimming

dont forget to bring a towel




damn i musta been drunk when i posted that

LOL!!!


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ythan, you rock dude.  i feel that my time at the shroomery was very positive and enjoyable, but this site is no longer for me. im not mad or upset or disappointed, i just want no part in a pg rated faggot festival.
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Re: Olympic gold medal winner Michael Phelps caught with cannabis pipe [Re: sorahtak]
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All speculation. No-one can prove anything. No comment. :Runs off covering face:

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Re: Olympic gold medal winner Michael Phelps caught with cannabis pipe [Re: Roger Fudd]
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I can imagine this as a very remote possibility: Phelps admits to using cannabis. Loses all endorsements, and not allowed to compete in Olympics. All medals taken away from him. Society shuns him, and he turns to alcohol and crack. When he dies of an overdose, the media says its because of the weed he smoked, which in a way is true, but only because it is illegal...


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Re: Olympic gold medal winner Michael Phelps caught with cannabis pipe [Re: Green_T]
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I don't see this happening, it would be awesome if it did, but this is what Phelps should have said, according to Radley Balko ...

What Michael Phelps Should Have Said
February 2, 2009 - Reason

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 a 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, 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 bullshit. 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 motherfucking swimmer the world has ever seen...is also a proud pot smoker.

Yours,

Michael Phelps

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Re: Olympic gold medal winner Michael Phelps caught with cannabis pipe [Re: veggie]
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It was out days ago. He gets to keep the endorsements.

All the TV news channels are lying, saying that the issue is still up in the air.

All this attention is very stupid, if the mainstream propagandists want to make it seem like MJ is not a common habit.

And, again, being loud around drunks is asking for it.

I don't really care that he's had to be uptight for so long. I believe that a functional person ought to be able to work recreation into his regular routine.

If your routine doesn't allow for that, it's oppressive.

This "hero" guy is doing what everyone else does, and, now, he allows himself to apologize for being just like you. By doing this, he perpetuates the same, bad stereotypes which got him in trouble, and which get you in trouble.

Taking a mild sedative is not a form of rebellion against common decency, but noone wants to have contraband on their person.

My hero.


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Re: Olympic gold medal winner Michael Phelps caught with cannabis pipe [Re: durian_2008]
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Quote:
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.


Go to where a lot of people exercise, and you can find everyday people, who are better than Olympians.

Does anyone know how to get on an Olympic team? How about any, major venue? The process has more in common with a casting agency than it is a test of any personal skill, whatsoever. They are looking more for style than substance.

The function of TV personalities is to serve as spokesmodels for the establishment, and nothing more.

It's not about the pursuit of excellence.

They want to sell you Big Macs, Pepsi, and the conformist destruction of our ancient traditions.


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Re: Olympic gold medal winner Michael Phelps caught with cannabis pipe [Re: durian_2008]
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durian_2008 said:
Quote:
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.


Go to where a lot of people exercise, and you can find everyday people, who are better than Olympians.

Does anyone know how to get on an Olympic team? How about any, major venue? The process has more in common with a casting agency than it is a test of any personal skill, whatsoever. They are looking more for style than substance.

The function of TV personalities is to serve as spokesmodels for the establishment, and nothing more.

It's not about the pursuit of excellence.

They want to sell you Big Macs, Pepsi, and the conformist destruction of our ancient traditions.


14 medals?  That's a pretty damn good casting agency.  You want to know what gets endorsements?  Winning.

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Re: Olympic gold medal winner Michael Phelps caught with cannabis pipe [Re: Cowgold]
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Cowgold said:
durian_2008 said:
Quote:
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.


Go to where a lot of people exercise, and you can find everyday people, who are better than Olympians.

Does anyone know how to get on an Olympic team? How about any, major venue? The process has more in common with a casting agency than it is a test of any personal skill, whatsoever. They are looking more for style than substance.

The function of TV personalities is to serve as spokesmodels for the establishment, and nothing more.

It's not about the pursuit of excellence.

They want to sell you Big Macs, Pepsi, and the conformist destruction of our ancient traditions.


14 medals?  That's a pretty damn good casting agency.  You want to know what gets endorsements?  Winning.


Yeah, I have to agree with you...I don't know what Cowgold is talking about...anyone can try out in a sport and the best at the sport get to move up to higher levels of competition...think of all the top athletes with no personality who succeed at their sports, nobody cares about their style.


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Edited by weephar (02/03/09 02:39 PM)

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Re: Olympic gold medal winner Michael Phelps caught with cannabis pipe [Re: weephar]
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weephar said:
Cowgold said:
durian_2008 said:
Quote:
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.


Go to where a lot of people exercise, and you can find everyday people, who are better than Olympians.

Does anyone know how to get on an Olympic team? How about any, major venue? The process has more in common with a casting agency than it is a test of any personal skill, whatsoever. They are looking more for style than substance.

The function of TV personalities is to serve as spokesmodels for the establishment, and nothing more.

It's not about the pursuit of excellence.

They want to sell you Big Macs, Pepsi, and the conformist destruction of our ancient traditions.


14 medals?  That's a pretty damn good casting agency.  You want to know what gets endorsements?  Winning.


Yeah, I have to agree with you...I don't know what Cowgold is talking about...anyone can try out in a sport and the best at the sport get to move up to higher levels of competition...think of all the top athletes with no personality who succeed at their sports, nobody cares about their style.




You're making no sense.  Personality has nothing to do with it, winning does.  He has endorsements because he wins.  He's in the olympics because he wins.  He won 14 medals because noone is even close to him... he's a freak.  Who gives a shit what his story is... the story came after he started winning.  It's really not complicated.  :crankey:

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Re: Olympic gold medal winner Michael Phelps caught with cannabis pipe [Re: Cowgold]
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haha i just joined a facebook group "I want to party with michael phelps"


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Re: Olympic gold medal winner Michael Phelps caught with cannabis pipe [Re: Cowgold]
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Cowgold said:
weephar said:
durian_2008 said:
Quote:
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.


Go to where a lot of people exercise, and you can find everyday people, who are better than Olympians.

Does anyone know how to get on an Olympic team? How about any, major venue? The process has more in common with a casting agency than it is a test of any personal skill, whatsoever. They are looking more for style than substance.

The function of TV personalities is to serve as spokesmodels for the establishment, and nothing more.

It's not about the pursuit of excellence.

They want to sell you Big Macs, Pepsi, and the conformist destruction of our ancient traditions.


Yeah, I have to agree with you...I don't know what Cowgold is talking about...anyone can try out in a sport and the best at the sport get to move up to higher levels of competition...think of all the top athletes with no personality who succeed at their sports, nobody cares about their style.


You're making no sense.  Personality has nothing to do with it, winning does.  He has endorsements because he wins.  He's in the olympics because he wins.  He won 14 medals because noone is even close to him... he's a freak.  Who gives a shit what his story is... the story came after he started winning.  It's really not complicated.  :crankey:


I am sorry cowgold, I meant to say that i don't know what durian is talking about and that I agree with you.  My bad. :peace:


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Re: Olympic gold medal winner Michael Phelps caught with cannabis pipe [Re: veggie]
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Why Condemn Phelps, When We Ought to Condemn the Laws That Brand Him a Criminal
February 4, 2009 - lewrockwell.com
By Paul Armentano

Add decorated Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps to the growing list of successful Americans who happens to indulge in marijuana during his down time. The tabloid news story is making international headlines, though it's difficult to understand why.

After all, Mr. Phelps is hardly alone in his herbal inclinations. According to national and federal surveys, nearly one out of two Americans have tried weed, and among those age 18 to 25 – Phelps is 23 – pot smoking is especially popular.

Contrary to the messages promoted by the federal government, marijuana consumers include people from all walks of life, ethnic classes, and socio-economic backgrounds. America’s current President said that he smoked marijuana regularly as a young man. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, former Vice President Al Gore, former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and legendary astronomer Carl Sagan all have admitted using marijuana at different times during their lives.

According to the U.S. government, most current marijuana users are gainfully employed. Statistically, most marijuana users are successful academically and financially. A National Bureau of Economic Research study even reported that marijuana use is associated with earning higher wages. Some former and current users, like Virgin tycoon Sir Richard Branson, Progressive Auto Insurance founder Peter Lewis, and New York State Mayor Michael Bloomberg are even multi-millionaires.

Perhaps the public's fascination with this story is because Phelps is recognized as one of the most talented and successful athletes in the entire world. (He holds the record for the most gold medals won by any athlete in history.) But Phelps isn't an anomaly in this regard either. Many top athletes use cannabis off the field – noting that it helps them to relax after the excitement of sports competition and alleviate the pain from nagging injuries. It also won't leave them with a hangover or adversely impact their performance the next day.

A 1997 New York Times investigation estimated that up to 70 percent of pro-basketball players occasionally indulge in the use of pot, and many high-profile football players – most notably Miami Dolphins star running-back Ricky Williams, former Dallas Cowboys all-star Mark Stepnoski, and even Super Bowl XLIII MVP Santonio Holmes – have spoken candidly about their off-field marijuana use. In fact, Phelps isn't even the first gold medalist to admit to smoking cannabis. That honor belongs to Canadian snowboarder and 1998 Winter Olympics gold medal winner Ross Rebagliati, who tested positive for having used cannabis in the days prior to his history-making performance.

Sure, there will be some who will say that this latest chapter in Phelp's life is deserving of criticism because the 14-time gold medalist is sending a poor message to young children. And what message would that be? That you can occasionally smoke marijuana and still be successful in life. Well sorry if the truth hurts.

Fact is, most Americans who use pot do so for the same reasons – and in the same manner – as do those who drink alcohol. According to a recent University of Alberta study, the majority of adults who use cannabis do so recreationally to "enhance relaxation." Researchers concluded: "[M]ost adult marijuana users regulate use to their recreational time and do not use compulsively. Rather, their use is purposively intended to enhance their leisure activities and manage the challenges and demands of living in contemporary modern society. Generally, participants reported using marijuana because it enhanced relaxation and concentration, making a broad range of leisure activities more enjoyable and pleasurable."

No doubt Michael Phelps indulged in the use of marijuana for these very same reasons. He ought not to be condemned for it nor branded a criminal for his actions.

For that matter, neither should anyone else.

Paul Armentano is the deputy director of NORML and the NORML Foundation. He is also the co-author of the forthcoming book Marijuana Is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People To Drink?, to be published in 2009 by Chelsea Green.

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Re: Olympic gold medal winner Michael Phelps caught with cannabis pipe [Re: veggie]
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Quote:
The process has more in common with a casting agency than it is a test of any personal skill, whatsoever. They are looking more for style than substance.


Quote:
You're making no sense.  Personality has nothing to do with it


I am obviously making sense, because you have successfully identified the point, which I was trying to make.

I have already told you that I am more powerfully built than Phelps.

I have said that I have been in his position, in regards to social stature.

I discuss the diet used by people in heavy training, from a first person point of view.

And, then, I tell you how the selection process works, in several venues.

Can you conceive of a logical progression of events, which may have taken place, behind your back?

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Re: Olympic gold medal winner Michael Phelps caught with cannabis pipe [Re: durian_2008]
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durian_2008 said:
Quote:
The process has more in common with a casting agency than it is a test of any personal skill, whatsoever. They are looking more for style than substance.


Quote:
You're making no sense.  Personality has nothing to do with it


I am obviously making sense, because you have successfully identified the point, which I was trying to make.

I have already told you that I am more powerfully built than Phelps.

I have said that I have been in his position, in regards to social stature.

I discuss the diet used by people in heavy training, from a first person point of view.

And, then, I tell you how the selection process works, in several venues.

Can you conceive of a logical progression of events, which may have taken place, behind your back?


I am not sure what you do...but as for myself, I was a competitive swimmer for many years(not a very successful one, but I was one) and I do know the process that it takes to make it to an Olympic team...I have had teammates that have gone on to trials.  Had they won, they would have been on the Olympic teams.  It has nothing to do with personalities to make an olympic team.


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Re: Olympic gold medal winner Michael Phelps caught with cannabis pipe [Re: weephar]
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I do know the process that it takes to make it to an Olympic team....


Clearly, you do not know the process, because you did not execute it successfully.

But, let's assume that you and your team mates were more than good enough.

Let's pretend that too many applicants were "equally" good...

Is the formula for fame based on skill alone?

If not, anyone "passible" as an athlete would do.

Edited by durian_2008 (02/05/09 10:39 AM)

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Re: Olympic gold medal winner Michael Phelps caught with cannabis pipe [Re: veggie]
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I think this would be unfortunate, especially over something like this ...

Phelps says he may retire over photo
February 5, 2009 - UPI

BALTIMORE, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- U.S. Olympic swimming champion Michael Phelps, dismayed by controversy over a photo of him apparently smoking pot, says he may bow out of the 2012 London Games.

"It's definitely not what I wanted, and it's clearly not what my mom wanted," Phelps told the Baltimore Sun after a picture showing him apparently smoking marijuana was published in Britain's News of the World.

Phelps, who won eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics, said that he "clearly made a mistake" and that the past week has been both embarrassing and uncomfortable for him.

A majority of his sponsors have vowed to stick with him, and swimming's governing body, FINA, accepted his apology.

Phelps said the attention the photograph attracted has forced him to consider retiring but he will talk with his family and his coach, Bob Bowman, before making a final decision.

Bowman said that he does not think Phelps will retire until after the 2012 Games. He said he understands how difficult it is for the 23-year-old to live up to the public's expectations.

Asked whether he regularly smoked marijuana, Phelps said he did not.

"This was stupid, and I know this won't happen again," he said. "It's obviously bad judgment, and it's something I'm not proud of at all. I will say that with the mistakes that I've made in my life, I've learned from them. Every one of them. And I've become a better person."

[Related: Story from Baltimore Sun, Intense scrutiny has Phelps weighing whether he will swim in 2012 Games]

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Re: Olympic gold medal winner Michael Phelps caught with cannabis pipe [Re: veggie]
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God damn Phelps.  lol.  It seems crazy to me that this is effecting him so much.  I would have just brushed it off, but i am no world class athlete with millions of dollars on the line.


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