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 ...
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.
Sucks to be him. I truly do feel sorry for him, he seems like the real deal.
LLS
When was this taken?
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?
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.
He speaks chicom... do you?
LLS
Strippers need love too!
LLS
Barry likes weed...
he went on to be President
Fluently? I doubt it. Enough to get by? Probably. I never had a need for Chinese, I studied French, many years ago.
That doesn’t even LOOK like Michael Phelps. Where is it from? The Enquirer?
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.
LLS
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.
Politicians should be tested more so than athletes. Of the two, pols performances affect me the most.
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.
Oh brother. I said he had difficulties learning, not that he couldn’t learn!
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