Pot isn’t drugs. Smack is drugs, crack is drugs, booze is most assuredly drugs. Pot is milk-and-cookies.
And now Phelps has been given a 3 month suspension by USA Swimming officials. They even admit that it’s not a doping issue, but because of the supposed example he is setting for the children :rolleyes:.
http://sports.yahoo.com/top/news?slug=ap-phelpssuspended&prov=ap&type=lgns
you should inform them that you’re taking your business elsewhere
I sympathize with Phelps but I don’t blame Kellogg for this decision. A lot of their marketing is to young kids, it just doesn’t make good business sense to have their product associated with drug-taking, even in the most tangential of fashions.
My anger is reserved for the fucking asshole who took the picture and sold it to the News of the World.
Somebody actually said that Phelps’ crime wasn’t smoking pot but getting caught was. No, uh, smoking pot is illegal. And the honorable thing to do is not smoke it. Plain and simple, it’s against the law! Of course there are those who rationalize it’s use. But it’s pretty black and white. Ya know there are plenty of us who do just fine, no, just great without it.
And lots of people are dying on the Mexican border for some folks to be able to “chill”.
Lawmakers aren’t perfect. There’s such a thing as bad law. Sometimes, things are criminalized which are actually in no way dishonorable.
So we should just each decide individually which laws to follow?
We should each decide to follow the laws of the land. I can’t think of any bad laws at the moment. As I said before, I and many others do just fine without pot. I don’t don’t see it’s prohibition as a bad law.
We enjoy so many freedoms and opportunities in this country. The lack of the ability to smoke pot is insignificant.
Also,
Huh? You’re not seriously accusing Phelps of having blood on his hands for buying pot, are you? It’s just as likely to have been grown in some neighbor’s basement.
And, on a sidenote, such unnecessary violence is all the more reason to legalize it; after all, wasn’t the alcohol industry run by gangsters during Prohibition?, and yet, it’s as staid and boring as any other now.
While some level of deference to the law may in general be desirable, we should not blind ourselves to the possibility that good argument can be made for the lack of moral compulsion of particular laws; I would not consider anyone morally stained for having transgressed anti-sodomy laws, for example. And, of course, as far as pot goes, I feel the same way.
Any freedom one isn’t personally exercising is easy to see as insignificant. But why should we brook any unnecessary infringement of freedoms?
Bank robbery should be legal so nobody gets shot?
If the pot Phelps smoked came from Mexican traffickers he has blood on his hands.
There is no freedom to personally exercise the smoking of pot.
If you eat a salad with lettuce picked by an illegal immigrant who was smuggled into the US by professional border coyotes, you got blood on your hands?
Huh?
I do agree with you, incidentally, that the bad behavior, if any, was not in getting caught, but must in fact genuinely have been in the deed of smoking in the first place.
But, where we diverge, of course, is that I don’t think there was actually any bad behavior there either. I consider Phelps a typical 23 year old kid engaging in typical 23 year old kid pleasures that hurt nobody and which we oughtn’t pretend are somehow things to be ashamed of.
(Incidentally, whenever I realize/remember that Phelps is actually younger than me (by like a week), I am overcome with a wave of such deflation at the naturally following comparison of our accomplishments (or, well, his and my lack thereof). Ah, but at least no one would hound me over it if I enjoyed a smoke here and there…)
Lame ass pit. Not even any name calling. And ya had to bring up that sodomy thing.
Be safe.
I thought it was a valid respose to your post
You’re missing the point. Nobody should have the right to dictate what you can or cannot ingest or inhale. That’s nobody’s damn business but your own. If ‘Prissy Suburbanites for America’[sup]TM[/sup] don’t like it they can go fuck themselves. If their kids get high because they saw Phelps do it then that’s their fault for being shitty parents, at least by their own lights. Their kids are not Michael Phelps’ fucking problem.
You’re so stupid you probably need to whistle when you go to the toilet to remind yourself which end you’re supposed to shit through.
Hey, just trying to be obliging 
Give me a fucking break. Phelps is a millionaire. I’ll bet you dimes to dollars that he was smoking kind USA grown bud, not some Mexican ragweed.
Fuck Kellogg, I’m sending a letter of protest to them, even though I probably consume a dollar’s worth of Kellogg product annually, but they don’t know that. OK, looking at their product page, I occasionally eat Cheez-Its, but I’ll stop for a couple of years.
I agree completely. I see no reason to complain about Kellogg. Phelps should have known better than to smoke in front of strangers.
I smoked some Mexican weed once. If you ask me those folks deserve to die for selling such shitty product. The traffickers that is, not the innocent folks.
Kids might find out that smoking pot isn’t as evil and certain to destroy your entire life as the school and its DARE program have told them.
They might find out that the government has lied to them.
That’s what they’re really afraid of. That kids will find out that no actual harm comes from occasionally hitting the bong.