It is not the harmless drug everyone thinks do to THC levels rising. The new trend is hydroponics other known as marijuana on steroids.
The last thing we need is a star athlete helping add to the stigma that pot is cool and harmless.
How many potheads are saying “he won a lot of gold medals so it must be harmless.”
That is a myth. No pot has higher levels of THC than hashish. Nothing going around today is as strong as Thai stick or Acapulco Gold of the '70s. It's a plant. The alkaloids it produces are the same as they have always been and the threshhold of how much you can coax a plant to produce can only be pushed so far. Those limits were found thousands of years ago.
I can't believe I'm reading this.
I better kill my hydroponic tomatoes. I wouldn't want any DEA drug heroes breaking in my greenhouse and shooting my dog because they hear there's eeevil 'hydroponics' around.
Did you know people are SCARED to grow hydroponic herbs and veggies indoors precisely because of an attitude like yours? I had a not-nice visit to my home by armed police thugs when I used to grow inside. All for some basil.
A bunch of overgrown boys playing Army. They staked out the house from the woods, creeped up and pointed guns at me in unclear uniforms. Some with fingers stroking the trigger and all beaming with such excitement hoping for a 'big bust'. They were convinced the 'dope' was around each corner and wouldn't lower their weapons. Repeatedly yelling 'where's the grow room?' and 'where's the dope' so close to my face that I was being spit on and kicking my shins while dragging me around.
Having guns pointed at me and being treated like trash was so humiliating, I installed cameras that record off-site and hoped for their next visit. My girlfriend at the time convinced me to stop growing anything inside 'for my safety'.
Cannabis is natural and is no more harmful than TV and junk food. I and millions of other respected professionals know the only harm from cannabis is legal issues(aka being shot) and having our careers ruined by the ignorance of people like you. Not only professional athletes, but scientists, engineers, mathematicians and chemists. Just to name a few that I know personally.
I hope Phelps is completely unapologetic and exposes the scam that is prohibition. I guarantee that the only harm cannabis will do him is that ignorant people saw him smoke it.