Ooh, ooh, Michael Phelps smoked pot, ooh ooh ooh, the demon weed

Not bad, but you lose points for not directly tying the weed to Bin Laden.x

Yes, as a matter of fact. This is called having a conscience. It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.

Pure bullshit. Do what you like but don’t pretend the rest of us have some kind of obligation to follow your choice to abdicate responsibility to somebody else.

Make an effort.

Apparently he’s also now picked up a new sponsor.

“Man, I am so baked… is everyone looking at me? I think everyone’s gonna know!”

“Naw, Mikey, man, nobody’s gonna know. Chill.”

“No, seriously, what if, like, people found out? I could lose my job! I might get arrested!”

“Dude! Check it out… Phelpsie’s gettin’ all paranoid an’ shit! It’s just weed, brah. Chill!”

Looks like the rationalizing has begun. You’re always gonna try to find a way to reconcile your breaking of the law. You like pot so there just cannot be any negative consequences to smoking it. It just can’t be. But you just can’t always have everything you want.

Phelps has no one but himself to blame. He was getting paid tens of millions of dollars to endorse products because of his image as a young upstanding role model to middle America. He had to know that Kelloggs wasn’t marketing their cereal to 30 year old stoners.

But George, do you really think it’s okay for people to be doing crack or meth?

And thanks for obliging me.

Do we know it’s 'Strangers" ? Do we know who took the pic and leaked it?

Think about it - there’s cell phones all over the place. Mini cameras can be hidden inside teddy bears (or whatever). If you have your home secured and let no one else inside, ever, I suppose you can feel reasonably somewhat secure that you’re not being videotaped/photographed/recorded (although who the fuck knows what the government is doing), as long as you’re not famous/infamous/whatever.

Not pretending anything. To be a responsible citizen you have the obligation to follow our laws. Or you can be obligated to go to jail. Can a mugger just say, hey I’m not going to follow the law that says stealing is illegal. I bet you don’t want him to if he’s considering you as his next victim.

No one says there are no “negative consequences,” what most people think is that it’s not the government’s damn business to protect you from the very small negative consequences of smoking weed.

Kellogg’s products cause a LOT more harm to American youth then pot ever will.

So we’ll just overlook the innocent people along the border who get caught up in the line of fire. We only care about our American youth.

The photo was taken at a party at the University of South Carolina, I just assumed there were people there who he didn’t know. You’re right though, it could have been anybody who took and leaked the photo, even a friend.

It’s amazing that with twelve hundred posts your rampant dumbassery hadn’t become more obvious until now.

PLease dissect my statement and explain the dumbassery therein.

You’re right, I don’t know dmatsch’s kid - I do know human beings, though, and I retract nothing.

Well, yes. Everybody does.

Not “cannot,” “should not.” They’re distinct concepts, and I was pro-legalization years before I ever tried the stuff.

What’s this got to do with the price of tea in Chinatown? You were making a point about how it’s immoral and nobody should break the law, but now it sounds like you’ve realized what a stupid argument that is.

Probably you’re wrong. Or you could be right if you separate a person’s responsibility as a citizen from their more important responsibilities as a human being. (I wouldn’t say this applies to getting high, but you made no exceptions.)

Yes, you have to be aware of and willing to accept the consequences of your actions. That’s the whole idea of civil disobedience. Again, not really the case with smoking pot, but there are definitely times it’s true, and none of this actually means the stuff should be illegal.

Finish this sentence please: the smoking of marijuana should be illegal because it harms _________.

Yep, I knew that was coming. Not saying it should be illegal. But it is. And so, cut and dry, we don’t break the law.

Gosh, it’s amazing how honor means nothing to so many.

Now you’re dodging moral responsibility AND simple questions. :stuck_out_tongue:

And Marley, are you really saying that to be responsible human beings we should smoke pot?

That made me laugh out loud, considering what 30 year old stoners who are too baked to run to the 7-11 are eating. I guess you’re right in that Kelloggs isn’t actually marketing to them. :slight_smile: