Phelps BONG hit

good post. i like the fact that there are differing opinions but no fighting going on in this thread

yeah, it happened at the University of Carolina. which for the record, is the the number one rival of my alma mater, Clemson University. not only do we kick their ass at football, we also kick their ass at not corrupting Olympic champions (suck it tacomaman!)

i guess we will just have to agree to disagree on that one point. like i stated earlier, it's awesome nobody is getting pissed or flaming

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8sLA2Gpg0g

 

yeah, but taht doesn't apply to you

 

The Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.

Didn't Ben Franklin smoke weed?

This country was in a way founded on cannabis.

I don't smoke, but I thought it was pretty amusing.

 

did you have any 'roaches' in the ashtray?

Do you ticket yourself when you speed?

 

Because in the end, we all have something in common. WE LOVE TACOS!!!

 

Another of Phelps's big-name sponsors, Visa, joined Omega, Speedo and PureSport drinks in supporting him.

"We have spoken with Michael, and he has expressed regret for the situation, has committed to being accountable and improving his judgment in the future," a Visa spokesman said.

 

Just like I think it was poor judgment for Phelps to put himself in that situation, I also think it would be a bad idea to invest so much time, effort, and tax payer money into a weak misdemeanor.

 

look, we've all seen movies ok. we know that ALL cops are currupt without exception (except commissioner Gordon, but we are a long way from Gotham) and as a result you are above the law. i bet you take bribes and hide bodies on a daily basis.

HA! I knew it!

its also possible this thread is so chill because everyone debating is "mellow"....

 

He has a new sponsor:

Manitoba Harvest Hemp Protein Powder

 

haha! Am wit ND on the fact that pretty much eveyone on this thread is pretty mellow!

So say whatever you want and rip one up if you get offended, you'll forget eventually what had you workd up! PeacE!

 

See I think that trying to prosecute is a waste of tax money and police time. For 1 they will have a hard time proving anything other then he's sucking on a bong. Which are legally sold as tobacco pipes. And that picture could have been taken anywhere at any time. Do they have any more evidence other then a picture they found on the internet? No offense to anyone especially you tigerfan. But I think police need to do real investigating, stop real crimes and criminals. Prosecuting someone for smoking pot is like setting up your radar gun at the bottom of a hill, where the speed limit changes. Of course your going to hand out some tickets. Technically they broke the law, but is it just? What do you think his sponsors would say if he was convicted of possession? Do we really need to ruin peoples lives, ruin someone's career because they smoked some weed? A good lawyer will make this go away for him, and possibly embarrass the local police force while doing it.

Marijuana is a touchy subject as of late, I know this doesn't pertain at all to this subject or your county at all. But in BC court the other day a judge ruled a guy who was busted growing for a compassion club indeed broke the law. The judge then stated that the law was unconstitutional and gave him an unconditional release. Here most people don't go to jail for growing, smoking or anything to do with marijuana. However they get a couple words on there record disallowing them to cross the border, or own a gun for example. It also costs tax payers a lot of money to put them through the system. Recently more and more judges are throwing out simple possession and paraphernalia charges saying its a waste of the courts time. Drug reform is happening, here anyway. Slowly, maybe not fast enough for people suffering whom would most benefit from this drug.

 

I just found this on another forum I frequent. Interesting letter from an AOL user.

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 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

 

good post sonjay