Michael Phelps a stoner!!!!

[Cowboy 6]

  Ok, so  is the big deal???? This guy stoned, could still out-swim anybody.  Besides if I had a 4 year off-season, a-ton of cash,  and any girl I wanted,  I would be partying my ass off too.  Party on Wayne!!!!

With all that going for you, why would you need to do drugs? Not to mention his drunk driving arrest in 2005.

[GIGOLO]

my thoughts...

1.  Can you imagine how big of a bong hit this guy could take?  I mean his lungs are like sleeping bags!

2.  He just needs to say "Look, have you seen what I eat for breakfast?  How do you think I get that hungry?"

Speaking from experience, being subjected to drug use doesn't necessarily mean that you in turn will become a user.  I grew up in much different household than all of my friends, most of which are now users in one way or another.  I drank all the time in high-school, now I can count on one hand how many times I get drunk in a month.  If someone is going to use, they will, regardless if they have seen drug use before.  Its really about how a drug or drugs can complete a person in their own eyes.   Everybody has dirt, you just have to dig.  Like that book everybody poops.  My kids aren't old enough to understand any of this, but if they were....................." Hey Daddy, Michael Phelps smokes weed, why come I can't??"  Well son, when you win 8 gold medals in the Olympics you can smoke as much weed as you want.

[GIGOLO]

With all that going for you, why would you need to do drugs? Not to mention his drunk driving arrest in 2005.

Because, having sex while stoned is fantastic.

[Cowboy 6]

Thank God we get to go race bikes with people like us and get our faith restored in humanity..race track is the most "normal" place I know of other than a 12 step meeting!! LOL

+1

[GIGOLO]

+1

+1 on that too John,  whenever some pathetic customers of mine screw with me or people try and take or get something they dont deserve.  I play with my kids, and all the anger goes away.

I saw today that Michael Phelps apologized.   Why cant people just be honest with themselves?  Thats his lawyers and/or his mom's influence.  I dont buy for one second that he is sorry.  What I hear is " hey look, I am sorry that there was a camera around and that I might lose alot of money"  I would lay money that most cops would rather have someone smoke a joint or two than to pound a six pack and hop in a car.  Alcohol is almost chemically impossible to quit,  marijuana is non-habit forming.  Yeah its a gateway drug, a gateway to understanding how a human can ingest an entire bag of doritos and a whole 2-liter bottle of sprite in 15 minutes.  Alcohol invokes violence and abortions, marijuana invokes hunger and really gnarly artwork.

[Court Jester]

Because, having sex while stoned is fantastic.

True dat.

I say weed should just be legalized in an effort to clear the whole thing up. If someone can smoke weed and still blast Olympic and world records, how bad could it be?

[barb_arah]

No one said you had to be smart to swim like a fish!

And do you know the attention span of a goldfish?  uhhh..what was the question?

[skiandclimb]

Wow.  Good discussion.  I can see this on both sides.  I can see how many parents would want Phelps removed from his promos.  I don't know of any parents who, short of former Dead followers, (BTW- love the band) who would promote marijuana usage.  I can also see the other side of it.  The "whats the big farkin deal???" side.

Why is it that when a major star, or athlete or politico gets caught with the doobage, they are instantly ridiculed and ostricized as being a horrible person?  Conversely, why is also that when a star, or athlete or politico DIES of drug usage, we as a nation, MOURN them and talk about how they were "tortured souls" and the like?  Example: Hendrix, Cobain, Belushi, etc etc etc.....

I am completely torn on the whole marijuana subject.  Here goes...as a cop (yeah, I am a low life copper) I see the law as the majority of society's wishes, and understand why the stuff is illegal.  I see kids using and it saddens me.  I see kids smoke out and then start shooting up.  I see gang violence based on turf warfare in terms of "seller's rights".....I see all the negatives.  (Oh, and BTW, whoever said marijuana doesn't harm anyone else is lying.  If there is one drug above all others that begats violence <albeit from distibution standpoint> it is marijuana.)

Now conversely, there's an equal part of me that thinks the shit should just be made legal.  Alcohol is....and it is, in my opinion, more dangerous for the user than marijuana.  In these turbulent financial times, why don't we let the government just tax the hell out of the stuff, and effectively eliminate a large number of drug runners, gangs, etc.?

One reason it is still not "legal" is in terms of gauging its effects on drivers.  See, in DWI law, we a have an effective bastion of tests which can with almost certainty- tell how intoxicated a driver is. We also have the BAC machine to verify the content.  When dealing with a driver who is impaired by means of marijuana, we have to verify the content by taking the subject to the hospital for a blood draw in order
to get conclusive, court effective proof.

Until the powers that be can come up with a nationalized, traffic bureau approved field test, I guarantee you will not see it legalized.

Anyways, Phelps is a badass swimmer, and I, as an adult, could care less about him puffing the tube.  But as an adult father, I don't want my kids emulating his behavior....

Does this make sense, or am I just babbling?  LOL

-Ski

[Burt Munro]

Kellogg's announced that they are dropping Phelps from his promotional contract with the company.

Bad move on Kellogg's part - In addition to great munchy food like Frosted Flakes and Fruit Loops, Kellogg's also produces Keebler cookies, Pop Tarts, Eggo's and Cheez-its.

Don't they realize the market share of munchy food they sell to stoners???

If the Stoner Nation retaliates and boycotts all these Kellogg's products the company is sure to take a major financial hit!!

BAD MOVE KELLOGG's!!!!

[jigs]

Makes sense 

[GIGOLO]

Ski thanx for taking the time to tell the third side of the story, usually that ends up being speculation.  Burt, Kellogg is a name brand with name brand pricing, therefore not really stoner food.

Ski, in your opinion is a person more likely to fight, get angry, crash his/her car, have some type of domestic, or the worst throw up on them self while under the influence of alcohol or marijuana?  If you boil things down to what they are and what they do, alcohol is the devil Bobby Bouchere.  Now as far as the violence involved with marijuana, wouldn't they (gangbangers) just find something else to shoot each other over if it wasn't drugs.  People are stupid regardless of race, sex, tax bracket, or RELIGION. For the record I am not a "pot smoker" , I have just seen this debate in other forums and thought it would be good here.  

[jigs]

Crereal is good stoner food with suger on it.Gang banger will fight over any vice that there's a demand for,where there's turf issues.I just don't know why Hemp isn't grown for newspapers,clothing etc.It doesn't take any tending really,dirt cheap and we wouldn't have read in the paper how we're decimating the rain forests to make newspapers.