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[Cloud]

LOL @ TRUE.

Beh. He's a kid, weed/pot/mary jane will pop in sooner or later.

That's why I avoid that stuff. When I go on my internship, they do drug tests, since we're operating heavy equipment. =/

[TheBugNinja]

this article sums up pretty much everything I feel about this situation...

A Letter I’d Like To See (But Won’t)

Sunday, February 1st, 2009 Dear America,
I take it back. I don’t apologize.



Because you know what? It’s none of your goddamned business. I work my ass off 10 months per year. It’s that hard work that gave you all those gooey feelings of patriotism last summer. If during my brief window of down time I want to relax, enjoy myself, and partake of a substance that’s a hell of a lot less bad for me than alcohol, tobacco, or, frankly, most of the prescription drugs most of you are taking, well, you can spare me the lecture.


I put myself through hell. I make my body do things nature never really intended us to endure. All world-class athletes do. We do it because you love to watch us push ourselves as far as we can possibly go. Some of us get hurt. Sometimes permanently. You’re watching the Super Bowl tonight. You’re watching 300 pound men smash each while running at full speed, in full pads. You know what the average life expectancy of an NFL player is? Fifty-five. That’s about 20 years shorter than your average non-NFL player. Yet you watch. And cheer. And you jump up spill your beer when a linebacker lays out a wide receiver on a crossing route across the middle. The harder he gets hit, the louder and more enthusiastically you scream.


Yet you all get bent out of shape when Ricky Williams, or I, or Josh Howard smoke a little dope to relax. Why? Because the idiots you’ve elected to make your laws have have without a shred of evidence beat it into your head that smoking marijuana is something akin to drinking antifreeze, and done only by dirty hippies and sex offenders.


You’ll have to pardon my cynicism. But I call bull****. You don’t give a damn about my health. You just get a voyeuristic thrill from watching an elite athlete fall from grace–all the better if you get to exercise a little moral righteousness in the process. And it’s hypocritical righteousness at that, given that 40 percent of you have tried pot at least once in your lives.


Here’s a crazy thought: If I can smoke a little dope and go on to win 14 Olympic gold medals, maybe pot smokers aren’t doomed to lives of couch surfing and video games, as our moronic government would have us believe. In fact, the list of successful pot smokers includes not just world class athletes like me, Howard, Williams, and others, it includes Nobel Prize winners, Pulitzer Prize winners, the last three U.S. presidents, several Supreme Court justices, and luminaries and success stories from all sectors of business and the arts, sciences, and humanities.


So go ahead. Ban me from the next Olympics. Yank my endorsement deals. Stick your collective noses in the air and get all indignant on me. While you’re at it, keep arresting cancer and AIDS patients who dare to smoke the stuff because it deadens their pain, or enables them to eat. Keep sending in goon squads to kick down doors and shoot little old ladies, maim innocent toddlers, handcuff elderly post-polio patients to their beds at gunpoint, and slaughter the family pet.


Tell you what. I’ll make you a deal. I’ll apologize for smoking pot when every politician who ever did drugs and then voted to uphold or strengthen the drug laws marches his *** off to the nearest federal prison to serve out the sentence he wants to impose on everyone else for committing the same crimes he committed. I’ll apologize when the sons, daughters, and nephews of powerful politicians who get caught possessing or dealing drugs in the frat house or prep school get the same treatment as the no-name, probably black kid caught on the corner or the front stoop doing the same thing.


Until then, I for one will have none of it. I smoked pot. I liked it. I’ll probably do it again. I refuse to apologize for it, because by apologizing I help perpetuate this stupid lie, this idea that what someone puts into his own body on his own time is any of the government’s damned business. Or any of yours. I’m not going to bend over and allow myself to be propaganda for this wasteful, ridiculous, immoral war.



Go ahead and tear me down if you like. But let’s see you rationalize in your next lame ONDCP commercial how the greatest mother****** swimmer the world has ever seen . . . is also a proud pot smoker.


Yours,
Michael Phelps

source: http://www.theagitat...o-see-but-wont/

Edited by TheBugNinja, 15 February 2009 - 06:24 PM.

[Derock]

Reading that article makes me realize that many of his points are actually True. I wonder what will happen if the media get their hands on the letter.

[dl316bh]

... Why in the bloody blue hell is it always a big deal when someone smokes pot? I hate drugs. With a passion. But of all the things a person could be doing, that's very far from the worst of them all; the only reason it hasn't even been legalized is because the government can't put a tax on it as it stands now. I mean, damn; cigarettes slowly kill you and they're legal. Alcohol slowly kills you and can cause you to kill others; still legal. Considering it's also not a performance enhancer of any sort, I really don't see how it's anyones business to begin with.

I hate the American media. No privacy for anyone in any sort of spotlight.

Edited by dl316bh, 16 February 2009 - 07:23 AM.

[Fallen_Angel]

Reading that article makes me realize that many of his points are actually True. I wonder what will happen if the media get their hands on the letter.

They will try and hide it considering how he shows the world that our govt is wrong is so many ways.
The truth being that a lot of Gov't officials are probably smoking the Hash..

For one - Drugs are Bad, but it depends on what drugs, now the kind that i am talking about are the Drugs that are from the Doc. You know Medical Drugs which help you A: Sleep, B: Be Happy (anti-Depression), C: Makes you feel Less Sick(i cant think of the right words) But for a younger guy/girl to experiment with drugs. Sure it doesn't matter what you say - everyone has (Yes Alcohol is a Drug) Definition of a drug please: noun:
1. a substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic - Alcohol is used as a medicine and/or A Narcotic.

So in other words - Pot...not a big things considering he could have been doing harder substances - Steroid...i mean come on - it wasn't really any evidence to it. Other then the fact that he admitted to it. Of course - and he set himself straight - which is the better part of this paragraph.