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So apparently a picture has surfaced of Michael Phelps in the midst of taking a bong hit.  Holy Shit!  This is the worst news anyone could have heard in the history of bad news.  I was reading a lot of reader reaction to this article which showed the picture.  I heard people literally demonizing the guy saying he is supposed to be a role model for their kids and how will he never recover from this.  They also say he should lose all his endorsements and that the Olympics board should take away all 14 Olympic gold medals he’s won.  All that is a bunch of bullshit

Michael Phelps started going to the Olympics because he loves swimming, not because he wanted to be a role model for your spoiled ass kids.  People always put athletes and public figures on these ridiculous pedestals and it’s just retarded to do that.  This should be a lesson for all you worthless piece of shit parents out there to NOT RELY ON CELEBRITIES TO RAISE YOUR CHILDREN.  They are too lazy to teach their children about morals.  They don’t feel like taking the time out of their busy work schedules and marriage counseling sessions to talk to their children about these kinds of things.  It’s ridiculous to expect any human being to act in a perfect way all the time.  Most of these people are Conservative religious types but even those people believe that “only he who is without sin can cast the first stone,” so those jack-offs are being just a little hypocritical… very surprising for the kind of people they are.

This guy didn’t get to experience his late teenage/early 20’s like every other college kid in America.  The one or two times he lets lose and tries to relax people crucify him.  I say, “Shut the Fuck up.”  There are people who are saying that he can kiss his career goodbye because of this.  Marijuana is NOT a performance enhancing drug.  I will go so far as to say that if Michael Phelps can toke up once in a while and continue to win gold medal after gold medal, he should win another gold medal for that because if nothing else, pot makes the act of swimming nearly impossible.  (Allegedly) Michael Phelps smokes pot BUT HE’S THE BEST SWIMMER IN THE W O R L D.   If anything that proves everything they want you to think about marijuana is an absolute lie.  They say marijuana will ruin your life, well this guy smoked marijuana and won 14 fuckin Olympic gold medals.  Doesn’t sound like his life has been ruined to me.  He even got to have his cake and fucking eat it too.  The thing that really annoyed me about every post that trashed Michael Phelps and weed was that they referred to marijuana as “dope.”  Who the fuck calls it dope anymore?  This isn’t the fucking 80s.

Some people said he’s never going to recover from this.  Dude, he got a DUI when he was 19 years old, his career never fucking slowed down.  I’d rather my children’s role models toking up in the privacy of his own home then driving around drunk.

I will throw a stat out there that is maybe a little biased but reasonably accurate none the less.  I wouldn’t be surprised if 40% or more college students smoke marijuana or have smoked marijuana.  The other 60% is comprised of: a) People who actually consider it a drug, b) Close minded right winged religious whack jobs who have some sort of moral superiority complex about themselves, and c) People who want to try it but are too afraid to ask.  It’s just something that people do.  It doesn’t kill brain cells.  It doesn’t make them stupid.  Some people just need a little something to take the edge off of this shitty ass world.  I don’t want to hear how we could do something acceptable like alcohol especially considering alcohol’s track record.

Personally, I think that if alcohol is legal, then marijuana should be legal as well.  There are hundreds of alcohol poisoning and overdose deaths each year, there has never been a marijuana overdose death in the entire history of human use.  Not to mention the toxicity of alcohol compared to marijuana.  We don’t need to talk about the fact that alcohol can cause people to become violent/beligerant and perhaps even kill someone or themselves by driving or fighting.  Where alcohol contributes to aggressive behavior, marijuana reduces the likelihood of aggression in the user.

Really the whole thing is a crap chute.  The only reason marijuana is illegal is because of a shitty Conservative/religious propaganda movie called “Reefer Madness,” which anyone who’s ever smoked weed would know is completely and utterly untrue.  That plus the whole Textile vs. Hemp war.  Hemp was demonized by the textile industry and something that should never have been illegal in the first place became associated with a stigma that it shouldn’t be associated with.