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Michael Phelps smokes cannabis [UPDATE]

The best olympian ever… smokes pot?

I love it. Keep rippin’ Michael.

Haters can’t stand the fact that a non violent cannabis user could accomplish the greatest feat in Olympic history.

This messes with their anti-marijuana talking points.

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“He looked just as natural with a bong in his hands as he does swimming in the pool. He was the gold medal winner of bong hits.”

With lungs like his I am not surprised at all.

Shout out to drew in the comments!

Deadspin has the play by play:

Michael Phelps says he regrets doing his impersonation of Brad Pitt in True Romance, and that it will never, ever happen again. I totally believe him*.

We all recall how following the Athens Games in 2004, Phelps celebrated by getting busted for DUI. This time it was a toga party while visiting the University of South Carolina, with photos of our hero hitting the bong that appeared in the British tabloid News of the World. Heartfelt apologies followed each event.

Let the kid have fun damnit.

Phelps official statement.

“I engaged in behavior which was regrettable and demonstrated bad judgment,” Phelps said in the statement released by one of his agents on Sunday. “I’m 23 years old and despite the successes I’ve had in the pool, I acted in a youthful and inappropriate way, not in a manner people have come to expect from me. For this, I am sorry. I promise my fans and the public it will not happen again.”

I don’t think this will hurt Phelps endorsement deals as much as a lot of the “build you up and tear you down” media wants. This is not as taboo as some very loud sectors would like you to believe. He will lose some money but this isn’t ” the end ” of Michael Phelps and whoever thinks he’s getting suspended for 2012 has to be smoking something.

( lame cliche alert )

Swim on Michael.


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  1. spacemanspiff

    Prohibition has done nothing to curb drug use or abuse, but it has made billionaires out of the likes of Pablo Escobar for decades.

    End the insanity.

    Right now, Mexican drug cartels are murdering citizens of the United States and of Mexico to further their business ends. A President could put them all out of business with the stroke of a pen. The drug trade, especially of marijuana is a primary destabilizing force in Mexico and the government. By legalizing it the whole criminal infrastructure supporting pot collapses overnight.

    Marijuana should be regulated like alcohol is.

    It’s the number #1 cash crop of the USA as it is .. and we spend money trying to suppress it, rather than tax it.

    That’s just dumb…

    Decriminalization will lead to higher tax revenue, taking money away from the drug runners around the southern border, and gives us a better chance of keeping pot out of kids hands. How? By enforcing laws that punish people to distributing to minors. Instead of punishing those who simply sell drugs and who use them occasionally, we punish those who sell and use them recklessly.

    Profits from weed being taxable, lowering of black market crime, industrial hemp, putting HS and police resources elsewhere are the right reasons to legalize cannabis. But to reach that stroke, we first have to eliminate hypocrisy.

    The best Olympian ever smokes weed.

    Deal with it.

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  2. Strummerson

    would Obama have any chance at reelection if he legalized it by executive order?  Seems like Jindal, or whoever, would just as easily reverse it.

    But as long as we are fantasizing about presidential courage, what single issue would be worth the sacrifice of electoral viability.  If we want Obama to put it all on the line for one thing, would this be it?

  4. fogiv

    A 23 year old smoked weed at a party?  STOP THE PRESSES!  The world is coming apart at the seems!  AMIRITE?!?!

  6. psychodrew

    But I don’t think that this should be an important issue right now.  And honestly, if it became legal, I think that pop culture would adopt another drug to become “cool” in it’s place.

  7. psychodrew

    From the NY Times:

    The Olympic swimming star Michael Phelps quickly acknowledged his poor judgment after a photograph showing him inhaling from a marijuana pipe was published Sunday in a British newspaper. Although his admission is unlikely to effect his swimming eligibility, it could affect the millions of dollars he has secured in endorsement deals.

    In a statement released Sunday by his marketing agency, Octagon, Phelps, who won a record eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics, did not challenge the legitimacy of the photograph published by the tabloid News of the World.

    “I engaged in behavior which was regrettable and demonstrated bad judgment,” Phelps said. “I’m 23 years old and despite the successes I’ve had in the pool, I acted in a youthful and inappropriate way, not in a manner people have come to expect from me. For this, I am sorry. I promise my fans and the public it will not happen again.”

  8. GrassrootsOrganizer

    Note how this tempest in a toilet doesn’t reframe the debate towards “hm, maybe marijuana doesn’t erode ambition, look at Michael Phelps!”  Aw hell no.  The marijuana debate is forever going to be conducted between folks who never lit up and wouldn’t know a thing about it and the system that has grown up around criminalization and profits from it.  So you aren’t going to get respected smokers “coming out” and talking about what pot really does or doesn’t do.  You are going to get folks who know absolutely nothing about it, and folks who make a living keeping it illegal deciding whether or not pot should ever be decriminalized, throwing around pot folklore as old as Reefer Madness.  

    And guys like Phelps (and even Obama) are going to continue to do their public mea culpas over a harmless behavior so they can maintain their reputations.  I can’t wait for some asshat to push for more sensitive Olympic drug testing so potheads can’t “cheat” and earn gold medals.  No doubt someone will figure out how pot could have given Phelps an “unfair advantage” in the pool.

  10. Hollede

    and decriminalize all other drugs. It is a health issue. People do go to prison if they abuse alcohol and harm others. Deal with it this way and the money saved can go into prevention, education, and treatment. All of the rest of the money can go toward whatever the frack they want.

    Oh and the bio fuel, industrial lubricant, fiber and cloth from hemp is better than most anything out there. And it grows like a weed, because…oh yeah. It’s a fracking weed.

    I am sick to death of seeing people who do drugs go to prison. It really is easy to get drugs whilst in prison. What does that say? Even if we have the most repressive and constrained kind of society possible (prison), we cannot stop it. This is madness.

    Oh and I am tired of seeing really scary people being let out after very short sentences because there is no room in prison because the prisons are filled with non-violent drug offenders.

    Now please, just imagine a very loud primal scream, and you will understand my feelings on this issue.

  11. spacemanspiff

    Up yours Phelps. Up fucking yours. You know what I do when I’m not not smoking? I watch Robot Chicken and sing along to the bock-bock-bock at the end, I think about doing laundry and then decide that it’s not in my best interest. I cook all six packs of mac and cheese that come in the box. What do you do? You win fifteen thousand fucking gold medals.

    I used to think, if Phelps would ever return any of my phone calls, and the conversation turned to recreational drug use, that it would go something like: me: you ever seen the Olympics? And Phelps would be all like: yeah. And then I would be all like: you ever seen the Olympics, on weed, man? And Phelps would say no and I would call him a square and laugh. Now, in this post Phelps hitting a bong fantasy of mine he would again say ‘yeah’.

    I NOW HAVE NOTHING! NOTHING!!!!

  13. creamer

     Just asking?

    I would good with legalization and de-criminalizing some other drugs, as much for the benifit of our wallets and criminal justice system as that of some Central and South American countrys that it is destroying.

     As for Mr. Phelps, its to bad. I really don’t care what he does with his life, sells Speedo’s, Wheaties whatever. But I really don’t find anything remotely positive about having Olympic champions shown breaking laws.

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