Damn, the man could have been smoking rabbit tobacco.

I saw the snowboarder gold medalist who was busted for pot on MSNBC making the case for athletes using pot, instead of alcohol, when they want to party in an altered state.
No fat, no hangover, less damage to your body in general. The classic "lesser of two evils" argument.
Of course the next talking head comes on and says "Its not the lesser of two evils.... Its terrible for you, its a gateway drug, etc."

I think the snowboarder dude was about to counter with the "No one has ever died overdosing on pot" factoid, quickly followed by the "20,000 people die in the US every year from alcohol related causes" factoid, but the whole discussion got cut off.

Frankly I'm surprised Phelps was smoking it.
I would have thought a health conscious athlete would be eating it or vaporizing.
Not that I know ANYTHING about all that.

-Sugarfatpie (AKA Alex Pulsipher)

"X-Rays are a hoax."-Lord Kelvin

who cares.

It would be great if he joined NORML.

I'm pretty sure smoking pot gave him no edge on winning. In fact, I would suggest he had to work extra hard to win. Pot, the unmotivator. Not that there is anything wrong with that.

I think I read somewhere that Kellogs dropped him.

Kellogs missed a chance to have some fun with a stoned Phelps pigging out in the commercials, perhaps they could have put the newly "overweight" Jessica Simpson in there with him. In seriousness, Kathleen Parker sounded better than most liberals in talking in her column about the silliness of our drug laws. BTW, you can actually buy Hempmilk and hemp cereal, the hemp in the food just can't be grown in the US, due to our laws. For what ever reason the Felini Krogers doesn't carry it, but I've seen the stuff at South and West Knox Krogers, its actually very nutritious.

Oh good grief. I'll bet at least 75% of all Americans couldn't care less.

DOnt worry about it dude pots not that bad live your life how you wanan live it, a little bud never hurt anyone! So you fags out their that are making a huge deal about it, I have one thing to say...SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU HOMO'S!

For all this talk about how silly this is, and who could care less, we still have a repressive array of drug laws that make sure that our law enforcement community cares a whole lot.

If Phelps had been busted for pot at the wrong place and the wrong time in his life, he might never have won those 8 gold medals, and never inspired me to do those extra few laps at the pool.

Our drug laws are silly.

-Sugarfatpie (AKA Alex Pulsipher)

"X-Rays are a hoax."-Lord Kelvin

From The Independent (UK):

Researchers in the US have found that men who regularly smoke cannabis have a 70 per cent increased risk of testicular cancer.

So to the homophobic 'potsgood', suck on some more weed, dude.

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He may have been better off firing up a Lucky Strike.

Smoking one marijuana cigarette sends the same amount of tar into the lungs as four tobacco cigarettes. Turns out pot contains about 400 chemicals and 50 percent more carcinogens than a tobacco cigarette.

Dr. Gupta
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I have no opinion on marijuana. It is what it is.

What I don't understand is why folks haven't gotten up in arms about some of Phelps other post Olympics behavoir, such as excessive gambling and dating a striper.

He's clearly let loose to party. He probably deserves to let go of some of the discipline involved in getting to win so many Olympics. But I'm not impressed by some of his choices, marijuana or no.

Pam Strickland

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." ~Kurt Vonnegut

dating a striper

He's dating a fish? Now that's kinky, but appropriate I guess.

(Sorry, couldn't resist. Heh.)