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14-times Olympic gold medal winner Michael Phelps caught with cannabis pipe
News of the World ^ | Feb 2, 2009 | Georgina Dickinson

Posted on 02/01/2009 3:43:51 AM PST by SkyPilot

THIS is the astonishing picture which could destroy the career of the greatest competitor in Olympic history.

In our exclusive photo Michael Phelps, who won a record EIGHT gold medals for swimming at the Beijing games last summer, draws from a bong.

The glass pipes are generally used to smoke cannabis.

And after sporting chiefs announced laws which mean four-year bans for drug-taking, Phelps’ dreams of adding to his overall 14 gold medal tally at the 2012 games in London could already be OVER.


(Excerpt) Read more at newsoftheworld.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: bong; michaelphelps; olympic
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To: SkyPilot
The new trend is hydroponics other known as marijuana on steroids.

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.

61 posted on 02/01/2009 5:31:42 AM PST by varyouga (People silently freezing in Kentucky. Obama doesn't care about white people!)
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To: Lady GOP
Those were the exact words I said. The "kid" has spent the past years doing nothing but training, let him have some fun. But according to the paper, if this is proven it is an automatic 4 year Olympic suspension which means he can't compete in 2012, thus probably ending his career.

Sucks to be him. I truly do feel sorry for him, he seems like the real deal.

62 posted on 02/01/2009 5:32:42 AM PST by codercpc
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To: SkyPilot
Caroline Pal!Photobucket
63 posted on 02/01/2009 5:35:48 AM PST by ontap (Just another backstabbing conservative)
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To: SkyPilot
I could care less... that guy is fast... he can smoke old tires if he wants to. He is a fool for doing so... but that is HIS decision.

LLS

64 posted on 02/01/2009 5:40:12 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (hussein will NEVER be my president... NEVER!)
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To: SkyPilot

When was this taken?


65 posted on 02/01/2009 5:40:17 AM PST by Mark was here (The earth is bipolar.)
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To: SkyPilot
I say GOOD FOR HIM. Hopefully he will "come out of the closet" & speak out against the idiocy of arresting adults for the responsible use a marijuana.
66 posted on 02/01/2009 5:42:21 AM PST by ChrisInAR
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To: SkyPilot

All this shows is that we have another highly successful person that smokes pot, just like all those presidents before him. Oh my, we can’t have that...pot is bad..doesn’t everybody know this?


67 posted on 02/01/2009 5:42:21 AM PST by government is the beast
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To: Hot Tabasco

I may be wrong, but I remember reading in a book by Lance Armstrong about how he was expected to submit urine samples to a tester at random intervals.


68 posted on 02/01/2009 5:43:09 AM PST by MyTwoCopperCoins
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To: Netizen

He speaks chicom... do you?

LLS


69 posted on 02/01/2009 5:44:31 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (hussein will NEVER be my president... NEVER!)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Strippers need love too!

LLS


70 posted on 02/01/2009 5:45:38 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (hussein will NEVER be my president... NEVER!)
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To: Lady GOP

Barry likes weed...

he went on to be President


71 posted on 02/01/2009 5:48:52 AM PST by misterrob (Smooth talkers win at singles bars and in politics .. often with similar outcomes for the listener)
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To: glorgau
Considering what is happening to this country I'm surprised we are all not smoking some pot!
72 posted on 02/01/2009 5:52:13 AM PST by angcat ("When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe".)
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To: LibLieSlayer
He speaks chicom... do you?

Fluently? I doubt it. Enough to get by? Probably. I never had a need for Chinese, I studied French, many years ago.

73 posted on 02/01/2009 5:52:57 AM PST by Netizen
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To: SkyPilot

That doesn’t even LOOK like Michael Phelps. Where is it from? The Enquirer?


74 posted on 02/01/2009 5:57:30 AM PST by madison10
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To: clamper1797
Looks like a beer bong to me.

Can you imagine, Phelps hitting a bong....the horror, the horror of it all, the horror.

Here's all these folks shocked at this revelation, all the while suckin that sud as they dole out a healthy serving of admonishment and ridicule.

Alcohol has been associated with hundreds of thousands of deaths directly and indirectly.....I see a bit of hypocrisy.

I've got an idea, how bout we open alcohol houses, tax’em, regulate'em and provide treatment programs for those who abuse the drug of alcohol.

I don't know where I stand on the issue of legalization. It has it's pro's and con's, but one thing is for sure, allowing citizens access to a far more dangerous drug such as alcohol and banning marijuana is just plain.......STUPID.

75 posted on 02/01/2009 5:58:12 AM PST by servantboy777
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To: Netizen
If he can learn any chicom... it shows he has a large capacity to learn.

LLS

76 posted on 02/01/2009 6:01:00 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (hussein will NEVER be my president... NEVER!)
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To: Lady GOP

If I was punished for the mistakes I made before the age of 23, I’d still be locked in a dungeon under the jail.


77 posted on 02/01/2009 6:02:44 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: MetsJetsandNets

Politicians should be tested more so than athletes. Of the two, pols performances affect me the most.


78 posted on 02/01/2009 6:03:10 AM PST by Straight8 (Don't begin it if you're not in it to win it.)
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To: MetsJetsandNets
Before anyone blasts Phelps for taking a bong hit, remember Sarah Palin admitted to smoking pot in the past.

I fail to see a connection.

Personally, I don't care if the Phelps character lives or dies or smokes pot or chases hookers; I simply don't care one way or the other what he does, as he has absolutely no relevance to anything I do in my life, but I fail to see any connection between what he does and what Sarah Palin did or did not do.

I cannot understand those people that attempt to justify the actions of one by citing the actions of another, especially if either of them are held up, rightly or wrongly, as a paragon of virtue.

Essentially, what you are implying, is that if Sarah Palin has smoked pot, then it's okay if this Phelps person smokes pot.

79 posted on 02/01/2009 6:03:24 AM PST by OldSmaj (I oppose BO. I am now TREASONOUS. To hell with Hussein.)
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To: LibLieSlayer

Oh brother. I said he had difficulties learning, not that he couldn’t learn!


80 posted on 02/01/2009 6:04:06 AM PST by Netizen
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