I don’t blame Michael Phelps for apologizing. He has a living to earn, so he did what he had to do.
In the meantime, I merely note that this broken wreck of a man’s failure to win any more than a pathetic fourteen Olympic gold medals (so far) is a terrifying warning of the horrific damage that cannabis can do to someone’s health—and a powerful reminder of just how sensible the drug laws really are.
At any rate, now we know the real story of why he ate 10,000 calories a day…
I think we’re nearing a sea change in recreational drug policy. The last three presidents have all admitted to smoking marijuana. I imagine a fair portion of Congress toked the demon weed as well. When you have such widespread disobedience of a law that even elected officials face no repercussion for breaking it, it’s time to change the law.
Keep in mind that Michael Phelps’s real crime was that he got caught on video. That’s really what this is about. There are vultures of society that thrive on humiliating celebrities in order to briefly titillate the rest of us humans.
Keep in mind that Michael Phelps’s real crime was that he got caught on video.
Yeah, well, in Chicago, they think that Blogovevich’ real crime was in getting caught on tape.
I think this is not really the big deal people are making it. Obviously people disregard the drug laws and many get away with it (aside from living with the effects of drugs).
Assuming Phelps stays true to his word that he won’t do it again, he can keep doing endorsements and come out fine.
Newsy.com has a video with different takes on this story, including a story of bribery to destroy the photo. Now I don’t get worried when public figures get high, but I’m sure worried when someone thinks they can bribe the press.
My take is that Phelps has made enemies, at least among the press, and one or two taught him a lesson about their power.
He usually seems to come across as irritated and a bit arrogant in TV interviews, as if it’s a big waste of his time. He certainly doesn’t have the baseball’s been bery bery good tuh me mock-humble shtick down. Indeed, I thought in the joint interview with Mark Spitz that NBC set up during the Olympic he was notably graceless, at least compared to Spitz.
Yeah, well, in Chicago, they think that Blogovevich’ real crime was in getting caught on tape.
Something to be said for that. The Illinois machine has probably elected more than three presidents. Although wasn’t the rumor that Blogovevich was cut loose and heading out the door anyway? And that the auction for Obama’s seat was just some last minute petty theft since he didn’t have much to lose any more?
“Now I don’t get worried when public figures get high, but I’m sure worried when someone thinks they can bribe the press.”
I wonder how they possibly could’ve gotten that idea.
People disobeyed the booze ban during Prohibition, too – and look where that got America. Of course, it is quite possible that Frank Sinatra wouldn’t have done as well as he did without that particular bit of religiously-inspired insanity.
People still defy booze bans, in “dry” counties in the US, or so I’m told. They simply cross the border into the next county where sensible laws apply, so the bans achieve nothing except to damage the economy of the “dry” county and improve the economy of the one next door.
The War on Some Drugs will never end, of course. It employs too many people, and affords too many opportunities for the State to pry into things that should be none of its business. It really doesn’t matter, to the people working in the drug enforcement industry, that a huge majority of the drug deaths, and just about all the drug-related murders, are a consequence of the fact that recreational drugs are illegal.
Legalise the lot!
I have no idea if this was Phelps first bong hit, or his millionth, but it certainly doesn’t seem to have affected his prowess in his chosen expertise. No one has suggested he smoked a bunch of dope, then drove through a school zone, at 80 mph. If he got a buzz and stayed put, no harm, no foul.
I’ve never understood the ban on pot. The “assumption” that someone who smokes pot is ALWAYS high is not proven, in fact it’s silly to think that. Those people exist, but so do alcoholics who are never quite sober.
Most adults who smoke do so just like people who drink socially. The difference is in the after effects, IMHO.
A guy who goes home, waits until the kids go to bed (he really doesn’t want the kids to know Dad is breaking the law) and smokes a doobie, will most likely eat a bunch of chips, or some cookies and hit the rack for some sleep. Most of the people this guy works with would be shocked that he smokes a little pot 5 nights out of 7.
On the other hand, the guy who drinks a few legal martinis, (the kids won’t think Dad is doing anything wrong it’s legal right) a half bottle of wine with dinner, and a few beers in front of the TV, won’t sleep well, and will be a half-hung over prick the next morning. And there are a hell a lot more guys in category two out there, than category one.
I’ve worked with, and for, both of these guys. I’ll take smokey the doob over martini man every time.
I know that there are guys who have the martinis, OR the wine, OR the beer, they are the norm. To me, so is the guy who has two bong blasts.
When you have such widespread disobedience of a law that even elected officials face no repercussion for breaking it, it’s time to change the law.
I thought we were talking about pot, not taxes.