14-times Olympic gold medal winner Michael Phelps caught with cannabis pipe

News of the World ^ | Feb 2, 2009 | Georgina Dickinson

[napscoordinator]

Too old...sorry for him. lol.

[napscoordinator]

I didn’t say he was a creep. But even if I did, we all have different people we admire and that has been since the beginning of time which I doubt that will ever change. I respect your opinion of him.

[romanesq]

As a person and a swimmer, I respect what Phelps has accomplished.
Simply amazing.

[ßuddaßudd]

He is sampling tobacco through water pipe....
Big dealio

[MinuteGal]

"When was this (the photo) taken?"

Sherlockian question.

The sideburns look a little out of sync with today's hair styles, especially for someone back in swim training.

Leni

[sonic109]

Geeeez the kid is 23 and he suddenly has millions and fame. It’s down time for training so he’s out having a good time. Yea , a bone head move I guess but ...what would you do at 23 with a million dollars? Guess I’d party and date a stripper too. HE”S a kid ..
Oh, but I bet all you baseball fans are all ok with the fact that your adult baseball heroes are booting up drugs in their arms to make them something they are not physically. Oh , that’s ok because it’s your sacred Yankees or Red Sox ...that’s ok right ? Frauds!

[The Anti-One]

Hookah is smoked from a water pipe as well as marijuana. Might we do what our founding fathers intended and give the man the benefit of the doubt (innocent until proven guilty if you will) before trashing his reputation? Hookah is a legal tobacco type substance and while smoking anything is stupid it doesn't mean Phelps was using illegal drugs.

[longtermmemmory]

the new rule is guilty until proven “democrat party”

[BlazingArizona]

Since Phelps collected more gold than the government in 2008, I say his private life is his own business.

[hellinahandcart]

There is no smoke in the pipe.

By golly, there isn't!

When I was in college, the whole point was to get smoke in the tube :D. Have things really changed that much over the last three decades?

[snowman1]

For Christ’s sake we have a president that did hard drugs for years and they swept it under the rug.

[Wilhelm Tell]

Yuk. Id think more of him if it was a bong.

He is sucking on a device that someone found in a closet that some guy presumanly used. EEEW! Better a bong than a *ong.

[Doc Savage]

Are you insane???

[SkyPilot]

You're right - sorry.

Here she is: Caroline Pal.

[SkyPilot]

No.

[untwist]

I have college sons. They are successful in their own right but I am not naive in thinking they haven’t tried it. I can assure you the fundamentals of bong hits are just like they have always been.

This picture looks phony unless of course he was taking the Clinton approach to smoking marijuana.

[auntyfemenist]

No kidding. LOTS of people of all ages smoke pot. I know many. Though I don't indulge myself, I could care less if anyone else does. If they would legalize it, we could tax it and have plenty more money for lots more bailout bills.

I think it is stupid and makes you dumb, but hey, 23 year old guys do things like this. I really hate the media and I wonder who slipped them this picture?

[DTogo]

Wow, Caroline Pal is hot! Good for Michael!!

[Danae]

D’OPE

[teenyelliott]

1. How do THEY know it's even him in that photo, and

2. Who cares if it is. I'd rather be around someone who is high than someone who is drunk.

Yes, I am on of those conservatives who think pot should be legal.