# Ooh, ooh, Michael Phelps smoked pot, ooh ooh ooh, the demon weed **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 2, 2009, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-ooh-michael-phelps-smoked-pot-ooh-ooh-ooh-the-demon-weed/484135 "2009-02-02T17:06:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-ooh-michael-phelps-smoked-pot-ooh-ooh-ooh-the-demon-weed/484135/81 "2009-02-03T13:06:30Z")
> [@Sublight](#): > > Ok, I feel like a total square now, but is methedrine the same as meth? Yes. Under that brand name, methamphetamine was sold as a prescription drug for weight loss and various maladies in the U.S. back in the '50s and '60s, and possibly later. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-ooh-michael-phelps-smoked-pot-ooh-ooh-ooh-the-demon-weed/484135/82 "2009-02-03T13:09:39Z")
> [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](#): > > You don’t have to be in the moral majority to be a little disappointed with Phelps. > > I’ve got two daughters and I’m happy that they don’t indulge. > > Phelps is a major role model for kids and we don’t need anyone encouraging the use of weed. Who knows, one day your kid might want to run for the oval office of the United States. > > What if Obama was caught smoking a joint in the White House? You have no problem with that ? I’d be more concerned if the President was caught smoking a cigarette. Tobacco is a far more addictive and dangerous drug than weed. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-ooh-michael-phelps-smoked-pot-ooh-ooh-ooh-the-demon-weed/484135/83 "2009-02-03T14:46:40Z")
I get the felling Phelps is an arrogant prick, I got no problem with him losing a few honey pot endorsements, but other than that who cares? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-ooh-michael-phelps-smoked-pot-ooh-ooh-ooh-the-demon-weed/484135/84 "2009-02-03T14:51:41Z")
Am I the only one who hears the thread title read by Horschack from _Welcome Back Kotter_? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-ooh-michael-phelps-smoked-pot-ooh-ooh-ooh-the-demon-weed/484135/85 "2009-02-03T15:09:26Z")
> [@Captain\_Carrot](#): > > Pot is a performance-debilitating drug? … Yes, in the sense that it might make you start wondering why you’ve spent half your life swimming back and forth in a big flooded box instead of enjoying the donuts you really love. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-ooh-michael-phelps-smoked-pot-ooh-ooh-ooh-the-demon-weed/484135/86 "2009-02-03T16:09:11Z")
Well let’s see how good he is at the next Olympics when the IOC bring in the rule that he has to do 3 cones of _White Widow_ or _Durban Poison_ before each race. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-ooh-michael-phelps-smoked-pot-ooh-ooh-ooh-the-demon-weed/484135/87 "2009-02-03T16:12:36Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > I get the feeling Phelps is an arrogant prick, Why do you get that feeling? Apart from the party description, he’s seemed pretty damned nice and humble from my perspective. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-ooh-michael-phelps-smoked-pot-ooh-ooh-ooh-the-demon-weed/484135/88 "2009-02-03T16:30:25Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Yes, in the sense that it might make you start wondering why you’ve spent half your life swimming back and forth in a big flooded box instead of enjoying the donuts you really love. Don’t know that you’ve noticed, but Phelps doesn’t shy away from donuts - or anything else. > [@](#): > > Here’s what Michael Phelps eats in a day. Breakfast starts off with a bang, as he digs into three fried-egg sandwiches loaded with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions and mayonnaise. That’s quite a breakfast, but wait there’s more as Phelps keeps going and polishes off two cups of coffee, a five-egg omelet, a bowl of grits, three slices of French toast topped with powdered sugar and three chocolate-chip pancakes. And then there’s lunch where Michael downs a pound of enriched pasta, two large ham and cheese sandwiches loaded up with mayo on white bread – and then he guzzles about 1,000 calories worth of energy drinks to top things off. > > I can just hear the so-called nutritional gurus screaming about the white bread and pound of pasta items, “Doesn’t Phelps know that processed/refined carbohydrates are BAD for you?!” > > Don’t laugh; I’ve already heard people say stuff like this. > > At dinner Phelps eats even more carbohydrates - he needs energy for his five-hours-a-day, six-days-a-week regimen – and polishes off a pound of pasta, then chases it with an entire pizza. > > For dessert he downs 1,000 calories worth of energy drinks. [Link.](http://www.intersportswire.com/archives/703) ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-ooh-michael-phelps-smoked-pot-ooh-ooh-ooh-the-demon-weed/484135/89 "2009-02-03T16:53:23Z")
> [@](#): > > Here’s what Michael Phelps eats in a day. Breakfast starts off with a \*\*\*bang \*\*\*… I see a glaring typo. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-ooh-michael-phelps-smoked-pot-ooh-ooh-ooh-the-demon-weed/484135/90 "2009-02-03T17:38:53Z")
And [idiocy](http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/swimming/news/story?id=3881374) marches on. > [@](#): > > South Carolina authorities in the county where Michael Phelps was spotted smoking from a marijuana pipe say they are considering a criminal charge against the Olympic superstar. Good luck with that. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-ooh-michael-phelps-smoked-pot-ooh-ooh-ooh-the-demon-weed/484135/91 "2009-02-03T17:50:28Z")
I’d like to see how they’re going to test marijuana that no longer, technically, exists, in order to verify that it’s actually pot. ---
**Author:** ![A\_Spoonful\_of\_Awesome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@A\_Spoonful\_of\_Awesome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Spoonful_of_Awesome)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-ooh-michael-phelps-smoked-pot-ooh-ooh-ooh-the-demon-weed/484135/92 "2009-02-03T17:52:13Z")
> [@Lightray](#): > > Because, had he been doing this in private, in his off-season, no one would have had any cause for complaint. > > Well… maybe his coach would’ve. [I know someone else…](http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/more/02/03/phelps.sc.ap/index.html) I thought the fact that he had to apologize was a more than a slight bit ridiculous but _this_ brings the inanity it to wondrous new heights. Rest easy Lt. Chris Cowan (who ironically, shares the his name with a childhood friend who first introduced me to pot), content with the knowledge your brave quest to protect our easily corruptible community from the tremendous evils of bong hits could potentially sabotage the career of arguably the greatest athlete of all-time. The ends certainly justify the means. :rolleyes: I wish you nothing but dick cancer, you moldy fuckmuffin. ---
**Author:** ![A\_Spoonful\_of\_Awesome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@A\_Spoonful\_of\_Awesome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Spoonful_of_Awesome)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-ooh-michael-phelps-smoked-pot-ooh-ooh-ooh-the-demon-weed/484135/93 "2009-02-03T18:11:38Z")
Crap, Gangster Octopus beat me to it. That post wasn’t there when I started mine. Last time I take an important phone call in the middle of responding to a pit thread… ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-ooh-michael-phelps-smoked-pot-ooh-ooh-ooh-the-demon-weed/484135/94 "2009-02-03T18:14:33Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > And [idiocy](http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/swimming/news/story?id=3881374) marches on. > > Good luck with that. It’s soooo embarrassing. This damned story has been on the front page of the local paper for days now, and the county sheriff wants to prosecute the guy. I do hope that means he’ll be scouring Facebook and MySpace for pictures of other people doing illegal things, as evidently we don’t have enough real crime in Richland County. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-ooh-michael-phelps-smoked-pot-ooh-ooh-ooh-the-demon-weed/484135/95 "2009-02-03T18:45:18Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > It’s soooo embarrassing. You should be, I hold you personally responsible for everything done in your state. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-ooh-michael-phelps-smoked-pot-ooh-ooh-ooh-the-demon-weed/484135/96 "2009-02-03T19:00:00Z")
What would they even charge him with? It’s not illegal to do a bong hit. It’s illegal to possess, sell or cultivate weed, but it’s not actually illegal to smoke it. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-ooh-michael-phelps-smoked-pot-ooh-ooh-ooh-the-demon-weed/484135/97 "2009-02-03T19:04:51Z")
Kids these days, I swear. You never heard of “internal possession”? This was way back in the day, during the Acid Wars. The idea being that someone who had consumed a drug still “possessed” said drug, but internally. Molecules of THC floating about in your drugstream is still illegal. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-ooh-michael-phelps-smoked-pot-ooh-ooh-ooh-the-demon-weed/484135/98 "2009-02-03T19:07:19Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > What would they even charge him with? It’s not illegal to do a bong hit. It’s illegal to possess, sell or cultivate weed, but it’s not actually illegal to smoke it. I have to ask. How can one smoke pot without possessing it? Are you suggesting that if he were caught in the act he would get off scott free? Not that this presumed charge is anything but b.s. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-ooh-michael-phelps-smoked-pot-ooh-ooh-ooh-the-demon-weed/484135/99 "2009-02-03T19:27:00Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > What would they even charge him with? It’s not illegal to do a bong hit. It’s illegal to possess, sell or cultivate weed, but it’s not actually illegal to smoke it. See, that’s my problem - they could charge him possibly w/possession of the bong only - and that’s only 'cause he’s seen w/it in his possession. Only way (as far as I can see) to charge him w/use of weed (ie possession) would be if they could prove it was. His (unsworn) statements wouldn’t neceesarily do it (on the stand “beats me what it was, they said it was tea”) and it’s way too late to do a drug test… um, unless he habitually uses it, in which case they’d still have to have probable cause to order it. Hmmm. Better he should stay off the roads in Michigan. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-ooh-michael-phelps-smoked-pot-ooh-ooh-ooh-the-demon-weed/484135/100 "2009-02-03T19:39:15Z")
> [@wring](#): > > …and it’s way too late to do a drug test… Only if he cuts his hair. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-ooh-michael-phelps-smoked-pot-ooh-ooh-ooh-the-demon-weed/484135.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-ooh-michael-phelps-smoked-pot-ooh-ooh-ooh-the-demon-weed/484135.md?page=6)