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Key sponsors Speedo, Omega back Michael Phelps after apology for marijuana pipe photo
Hartford Courant ^
| Feb. 2, 2009
Posted on 02/03/2009 4:19:16 PM PST by Wolfie
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BTW whether it’s half the cops in Miami or 3/4 of the engineers at Michigan State or 97% of the housewives in Denmark who smoke dope.... doesn’t prove it’s harmless.
Obama won the election...we are learning everyday that THAT majority was wrong also.
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posted on
02/03/2009 8:25:08 PM PST
by
LoveUSA
(I have seen the future and it is Sarah Palin.)
To: Darwin Fish
Personally I could care less if people smoked dope if it was legal.
But considering what is happening in Mexico and elsewhere I can’t consider it a harmless little habit. People are getting murdered, kidnapped, and raped because of people supplying that little habit.
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posted on
02/03/2009 9:01:14 PM PST
by
Swiss
("Thus always to tyrants")
To: LoveUSA
The discussion here is about current users who make the delusional claim that their occasional use causes no damage. Stick to the topic.
Sorry, I do not buy the fact that you are somehow a victim of pot smokers.
America consists of 300 million individualists that live in the same country and for groups of people to use the force of law against others they do not like for doing things they do not approve of is UNAmerican.
To mask their UNAmerican motives, groups of people from the right and left turn themselves into victims to justify passing all sorts of laws that stick it to the people on the other side that they hate.
This is what this once great country has turned into. We used to put people in prison that were a threat to our safety. Now we imprison people we do not like.
History will not be kind to our generations.
To: LoveUSA
Are you saying Sarah Palin still smokes? Just about everybody has tried it in college. He's 23 years old and spent the last four-eight years competing and being drug tested. He didn't have the opportunity to "try it in college".
So sorry that he might be trying to be a little more normal for awhile.
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posted on
02/03/2009 11:08:16 PM PST
by
Dianna
(Obama Barbie: Governing is hard.)
To: RobinOfKingston
There are other kids out here who are watching this and thinking they can get away with it, too. Yeah, so many kids who would never have imagined smoking pot until Michael Phelps does it. Yeah, right.
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posted on
02/03/2009 11:10:07 PM PST
by
Dianna
(Obama Barbie: Governing is hard.)
To: Swiss
That’s a function of the black market. Just ask Al Capone.
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posted on
02/04/2009 3:59:18 AM PST
by
Wolfie
To: Wolfie
Better title:
Swimmer Skates
To: Pearls Before Swine; Darwin Fish
Imam dalereed wants to put everyone who isn’t dalereed in prison. Kind of a fetish of his.
To: dalereed
Youre human garbage!Don't sugar coat it. Tell us what you really think.
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posted on
02/04/2009 8:07:30 AM PST
by
Darwin Fish
(God invented evolution. Man invented religion.)
To: Hot Tabasco
Obviously I have never smoked marijuana. Did you read my post?
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posted on
02/04/2009 8:09:49 AM PST
by
SweetLanaLiberty
(The Bushes- a shining example of a REAL and loving marriage)
To: Yossarian
I swam Alcatraz,Wow! That is quite an accomplishment! Those currents around the SFB are insane, and the cold...my hat is off to you.
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posted on
02/04/2009 8:11:36 AM PST
by
Darwin Fish
(God invented evolution. Man invented religion.)
To: Darwin Fish
Hey dude. Some of us are not dope smokers, alcoholics, cig smokers or losers. Dope smoking is not healthy.
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posted on
02/04/2009 8:12:04 AM PST
by
Frantzie
(Boycott GE - they own NBC, MSNBC, CNBC & Universal. Boycott Disney - they own ABC)
To: Kimmers
I would rather see other swimmers get a chance to make some endorsement money. $10 million a year just to Phelps is foolish. Sad but he is a doper.
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posted on
02/04/2009 8:13:36 AM PST
by
Frantzie
(Boycott GE - they own NBC, MSNBC, CNBC & Universal. Boycott Disney - they own ABC)
To: SweetLanaLiberty
“Disgusting. And Im sure hell continue to get a pass for all future bad behavior. The excuse I keep hearing is that most people do it. No way. I havent. My husband hasnt. I imagine most conervatives and Christians have it, and we are in the majority in this country.”
According to government statistics more than 100,000,000 Americans have done it. Looking at the same statistics you would find that more than half of all adults under the age of 60 in this country would admit on a government survey that they have smoked marijuana. A lot of people haven't done it. That's true. But a whole lot have, including a lot of Christians and conservatives. People don't talk about it a lot because it carries a certain social stigma, and of course it is illegal, but if you had some way of knowing who has done it I think you would be surprised at how many people you know who have done it and in some cases still do it occasion.
To: Frantzie
There was a great discussion on Mike & Mike on ESPN today.
He is a doper and what he did is still illegal and he does have a responsibility to those who sponsor him....I am shocked that his sponsors have not dropped him, I guess they have bought into the idea that everyone does it and he is only 23.....I say Barbra Streisand to that and he should be held accountable..... What bothers me the most is our society has become so excepting of bad behavior....
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posted on
02/04/2009 8:24:50 AM PST
by
Kimmers
(Working hard so Obamas friends don't have to)
To: Hot Tabasco
...I was too and the first and only time I smoked dope (before I entered the Army) was when I took a trip to Lansing with a couple of my high school swim team mates to play water polo at Michigan State.........That turned out to be a real joke....LOL! Yup, been there, done that. Swimmers, sky divers, and believe it or not, top motorcycle racers all smoke pot regularly. As one champion racer explained to me, he can hear each engine part screaming as he races--it "talks to him." Funny thing is, if it were legalized, a huge part of the border war violence would go away, and inner city kids would have to find real jobs. Boy that would suck, huh.
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posted on
02/04/2009 8:33:59 AM PST
by
Darwin Fish
(God invented evolution. Man invented religion.)
To: varyouga
Looks like me and you are in the same boat, FRiend. I'm a mechanical and nuclear engineer about to celebrate 10 years of regular smoking. 'Celebrate' because I love to rub the lazy doper stereotype in doubters' faces after I blow them away with my work.Glad to meetcha! Actually I don't do it anymore, but for real I know some of the best scientists, engineers, and CEO's who partake regularly. Most of them quite well off.
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posted on
02/04/2009 8:38:03 AM PST
by
Darwin Fish
(God invented evolution. Man invented religion.)
To: Linda Liberty
I love that quote I saw it earlier today.
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posted on
02/04/2009 8:38:49 AM PST
by
Mr. Blonde
(You ever thought about being weird for a living?)
To: Darwin Fish
“Swimmers, sky divers, and believe it or not, top motorcycle racers all smoke pot regularly.”
All of them do? Come on. That’s b.s. I’m sure some do. I wouldn’t doubt that the percentage of these people who do it is higher than the national average because their mostly young, more likely to be male than female, and at least sky divers and motorcycle racers are people who would tend to be more likely to live on the wild side somewhat. The same would go for snow boarders. But not all of them smoke pot. That’s just a ridiculous thing to say.
To: SmallGovRepub; Darwin Fish
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