SouthLink02 8 Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 http://jezebel.com/5143693/michael-phelps-...ike-a-phishhead * Uh oh! Super Olympian Michael Phelps has been caught on film smoking a bong. Phelps, 23, was reportedly visiting a University of South Carolina sorority girl and apparently "ended up just getting wasted every night." * Phelps was "loud and obnoxious and slamming beers from the get-go. He was definitely the life of the party as every girl wanted a piece of him and every guy wanted to be his best buddy. He was eating it up, says a source, "If he was there to visit his girlfriend, there certainly was no sign of it that night. All the celebrity attention is making him really cocky, and he's going to end up getting burned because of it." What's this? A 23-year-old world famous millionaire athlete doing drugs and acting like an ass? I am shocked, I tell you! Shocked![star] * A source also claims that Phelps seemed like he'd had plenty of practice: “You could tell Michael had smoked before. He grabbed the bong and a lighter and knew exactly what to do. 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. Michael ended up getting a little paranoid, though, because before too long he looked like he was nervous and ran out of the place.†[News Of The World] Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/55944-phelps-hitting-dat-weed/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinCrimson 61 Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 Hasn't he seen the ads? His dog won't love him anymore if he rips the bong. Or, at least that's what the National Ad Council has told me. This nation has the most strange relationship with something so harmless. It's really funny to me. Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/55944-phelps-hitting-dat-weed/#findComment-578394 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldNewby 27 Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 What's this? A 23-year-old world famous millionaire athlete doing drugs and acting like an ass? I am shocked, I tell you! Shocked! Good thing he wasn't caught on film with a shot glass and tequila. Do not pass goal. Go directly to Mexican AA. Maybe the paranoia part comes from ganja being illegal? Just sayin'. Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/55944-phelps-hitting-dat-weed/#findComment-578400 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AUslug 1 Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 Hasn't he seen the ads? His dog won't love him anymore if he rips the bong. Or, at least that's what the National Ad Council has told me. This nation has the most strange relationship with something so harmless. It's really funny to me. Agree, the commercials crack me up. So what if he hit the bong, and don't give me this role model crap or think of the children bs. Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/55944-phelps-hitting-dat-weed/#findComment-578446 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiger88 934 Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 I'd swear it was a really long shot glass. I see no lighter, bowl or weed in that shot. Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/55944-phelps-hitting-dat-weed/#findComment-578461 Share on other sites More sharing options...
aumd03 2 Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 Hasn't he seen the ads? His dog won't love him anymore if he rips the bong. Or, at least that's what the National Ad Council has told me. This nation has the most strange relationship with something so harmless. It's really funny to me. Harmless? Smoking weed causes lung cancer at a much higher rate than smoking tobacco. Cancer is the 2nd leading cause of death, lung cancer being the most common. I guess being more effective than the 2nd leading cause of death is considered harmless? What are they teaching you on the crapstone??? Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/55944-phelps-hitting-dat-weed/#findComment-578464 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranger12 53 Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 Hasn't he seen the ads? His dog won't love him anymore if he rips the bong. Or, at least that's what the National Ad Council has told me. This nation has the most strange relationship with something so harmless. It's really funny to me. Yeah, I have never seen a pothead that acted spaced out and like he was missing a few brain cells. Never saw somebody doped up do something that could harm themselves or somebody else. Never seen somebody cause a high speed chase because it was in their car. I do think there is a hypocrisy that we say certain things other things are legal, but just as dangerous as MJ. Alcohol kills more people and causes more damage to life, property, and families, then weed does. Tobacco just kills people slowly or causes other life long health problems. Didn't Phelps get a DUI not long after his first Olympics? Seems to have an issue with good judgment outside of the pool. Of course, he would like for you to believe that in each of these instances, this was the only time he had did that. Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/55944-phelps-hitting-dat-weed/#findComment-578465 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin5 20 Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 My opinion of Phelps has actually improved after this. Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/55944-phelps-hitting-dat-weed/#findComment-578472 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiger88 934 Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 Hasn't he seen the ads? His dog won't love him anymore if he rips the bong. Or, at least that's what the National Ad Council has told me. This nation has the most strange relationship with something so harmless. It's really funny to me. Harmless? Smoking weed causes lung cancer at a much higher rate than smoking tobacco. Cancer is the 2nd leading cause of death, lung cancer being the most common. I guess being more effective than the 2nd leading cause of death is considered harmless? What are they teaching you on the crapstone??? Legalize it, make it cheaper, then people could make cookies and brownies out of it or just plain eat it. Then you'd get a good fiber effect as well as a kick ass buzz. Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/55944-phelps-hitting-dat-weed/#findComment-578476 Share on other sites More sharing options...
otterinbham 0 Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 I don't care if it causes lung cancer or not. Somebody please tell me how it's the government's business. Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/55944-phelps-hitting-dat-weed/#findComment-578505 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthLink02 8 Posted February 2, 2009 Author Share Posted February 2, 2009 I have never smoked weed but a lot of my friends have and I have no problem with it. They are all normal, hard-working guys who just did it to chill. I am not sure I support it being FULLY legalized but I do wish it was legalized for those that need it that are sick, etc....medical that is. Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/55944-phelps-hitting-dat-weed/#findComment-578554 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiger88 934 Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 I have never smoked weed but a lot of my friends have and I have no problem with it. They are all normal, hard-working guys who just did it to chill. I am not sure I support it being FULLY legalized but I do wish it was legalized for those that need it that are sick, etc....medical that is. I haven't smoked it in years but I knew and still know many successful people who use it. I think it should be de-criminalized to a large degree. I mean if you are stressed and have money it is easy to get a prescription for a variety of prescription narcotics. If you are poor, stressed out and smoke weed, you end up in jail. The prisons are overcrowded largely due to marijuana "criminals". It is a fact. I know from back in the day that eating mj can provide the same effect on an empty stomach. Some say stronger. It is a ridiculous law that needs changing. Medical mj has been voted in in EVERY state where the vote was put forth. Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/55944-phelps-hitting-dat-weed/#findComment-578569 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinCrimson 61 Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 Hasn't he seen the ads? His dog won't love him anymore if he rips the bong. Or, at least that's what the National Ad Council has told me. This nation has the most strange relationship with something so harmless. It's really funny to me. Harmless? Smoking weed causes lung cancer at a much higher rate than smoking tobacco. Cancer is the 2nd leading cause of death, lung cancer being the most common. I guess being more effective than the 2nd leading cause of death is considered harmless? What are they teaching you on the crapstone??? Actually, THC kills damaged cells before they become cancerous. A recent study by UCLA found no connection between marijuana smoke and lung cancer. And Ranger, I've never really bought in to the "did something stupid while stoned" argument. I've always thought that people get some idea that when they're doing drugs of any kind, that they have a legit excuse to show their ass. The bud didn't make them want to do something stupid. Their personality did. The smoke was just an excuse to show their true colors. And it's those type of people that I can't stand being around. Don't ruin it others -- a pretty simple concept that a slim few wind up not accepting. Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/55944-phelps-hitting-dat-weed/#findComment-578597 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldNewby 27 Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 Harry J. Anslinger snip… Harry Anslinger (1892-1975) was the first US drug czar. Anslinger was appointed to the newly created position of Commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics on August 12, 1930 and he served in the position until 1962. He had perviously served as Assistant Prohibition Commissioner in the Bureau of Prohibition. He was responsible for the introduction of the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act which criminalized cannabis in the United States.snip… Anslinger, was made Commissioner of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Narcotics a year after he made the public remark "Reefer makes darkies think they're as good as white men." Anslinger is reported to have retired in 1962, but he was actually fired by U.S. President John F. Kennedy. Anslinger was canned for insubordination for refusing to desist from attempting to halt all publications by Professor Alfred Lindsmith of Indiana University who wrote, among other works, The Addict and the Law (Washington Post, 1961), a book critical in detail of the "War on Drugs" that was initiated with the war on marijuana in the run-up to the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937. Marijuana is taken by ...musicians. And I'm not speaking about good musicians, but the jazz type... â€â€Harry J. Anslinger, Commissioner of the US Bureau of Narcotics, 1930 - 1962. Looks like Anslinger, working for the Federal Government, needed a new boogie man after Prohibition was repealed (The Eighteenth Amendment was repealed with ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment, on December 5, 1933). Enter marijuana and "Reefer Madness". Anslinger and the Feds found their new "Prohibition". No matter that the first one had failed miserably. Prohibition of alcohol helped fund mobsters like Al Capone, and helped fuel the turf wars of the 1920s by creating a black market for booze. Now, a new black market had been opened. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/55944-phelps-hitting-dat-weed/#findComment-578610 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinCrimson 61 Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 "The Jazz Type?" Yeah, alright. I can go with that. Yeah... Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/55944-phelps-hitting-dat-weed/#findComment-578621 Share on other sites More sharing options...
otterinbham 0 Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 Here's the deal. I don't smoke. I don't snort. I don't shoot. At the same time, if I chose to do so, I'm really trying to understand how, under our constitution, the government has the right and authority to ban controlled substances. And I'm also trying to understand how some people on this board support the government in this. Obviously, if somebody gets high and drives a car, then they constitute a danger to others and should be arrested--just the same as if they had too much Jim Beam. But if they do it at home and don't cost the taxpayer money, then let them kill themselves. After all, a lot of you guys are laissez faire about every other aspect of government. How have you been brainwashed on this? This is particularly true when you look at the routine erosion of civil rights for ordinary Americans. After all, if your son's friend has a doobie on him while riding in your car, it gets taken away by the government without due process. If you have several thousand dollars worth of cash on you, the government has an automatic right to take it from you unless you can explain exactly where you got it. And with this erosion of civil rights, with this cramming of people into our prisons, with the continued militarization of our police, with the spending of hundreds of billions spent, what has our so-called War On Drugs accomplished? Nothing. The usage of drugs in this country is about the same as 1970 when Nixon started this foolishness to begin with. Further, the illegality of drugs is destabilizing Mexico, it directly or indirectly is the source of a large proportion of violent crime in the country. In short, after almost 40 years of bungling, haven't we realized that, once again, government isn't the solution here? Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/55944-phelps-hitting-dat-weed/#findComment-578698 Share on other sites More sharing options...
aumd03 2 Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 I don't care if it causes lung cancer or not. Somebody please tell me how it's the government's business. Hasn't he seen the ads? His dog won't love him anymore if he rips the bong. Or, at least that's what the National Ad Council has told me. This nation has the most strange relationship with something so harmless. It's really funny to me. Harmless? Smoking weed causes lung cancer at a much higher rate than smoking tobacco. Cancer is the 2nd leading cause of death, lung cancer being the most common. I guess being more effective than the 2nd leading cause of death is considered harmless? What are they teaching you on the crapstone??? Actually, THC kills damaged cells before they become cancerous. A recent study by UCLA found no connection between marijuana smoke and lung cancer. And Ranger, I've never really bought in to the "did something stupid while stoned" argument. I've always thought that people get some idea that when they're doing drugs of any kind, that they have a legit excuse to show their ass. The bud didn't make them want to do something stupid. Their personality did. The smoke was just an excuse to show their true colors. And it's those type of people that I can't stand being around. Don't ruin it others -- a pretty simple concept that a slim few wind up not accepting. I'm not making any commentary on govt business or not. Just on the harmfulness of the drug. I looked up the study that you commented on. Its a retrospective analysis. Its widely known in medicine that these studies are quite unreliable and quite subject to bias. Basically they take so many people with cancer and so many without and ask them questions. You might also find that things like sex causing cancer, desk jobs, etc, if you ask the right questions. You haven't controlled for variables at all. The bench studies looking at marijuana use look mostly at purified forms and direct effect on cell lines. The problem is that smoking is what increases the risk. Putting high-temp radicals into your body from tobacco, marijuana or lawn clippings are all bad news. In the same way grilling is carcinogenic. Look, I'm not saying that marijuana is worse than too much salt in your diet, over-eating, or alcohol, but you can't say it is harmless. Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/55944-phelps-hitting-dat-weed/#findComment-578747 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bojack34 2 Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 I may be wrong but to me the guy in that picture looks nothing like Phelps. Look at the neck on that dude. Phelps is not that big of a guy. I just don't see the resemblance. Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/55944-phelps-hitting-dat-weed/#findComment-578763 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldNewby 27 Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 Hasn't he seen the ads? His dog won't love him anymore if he rips the bong. Or, at least that's what the National Ad Council has told me. This nation has the most strange relationship with something so harmless. It's really funny to me. Harmless? Smoking weed causes lung cancer at a much higher rate than smoking tobacco. Cancer is the 2nd leading cause of death, lung cancer being the most common. I guess being more effective than the 2nd leading cause of death is considered harmless? What are they teaching you on the crapstone??? There seems to be conflicting studies and reports. Earlier studies say there is a link, later studies say there is not a link. Check these: From 2000: http://archives.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/cancer...ncer/index.html From 2006: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...2501729_pf.html From 2007: http://ronpaulblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/re...nd-no-link.html Do you have links to newer studies/reports? Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/55944-phelps-hitting-dat-weed/#findComment-578778 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiger88 934 Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 I may be wrong but to me the guy in that picture looks nothing like Phelps. Look at the neck on that dude. Phelps is not that big of a guy. I just don't see the resemblance. His neck looks big because he is leaning his head over to hit the bong. Also, phelps has a very big neck (no gay jokes please, lol.) as well as chest. I'm not guaranteeing its him but it looks just like him to me. Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/55944-phelps-hitting-dat-weed/#findComment-578789 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldNewby 27 Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 It's Phelps alright. On the local TV12 news last night, they reported Phelps has apologized for his behavior, pledged to clean up his act, and promised to never get caught do it again. From ESPN: http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/swimming/news/story?id=3876804 Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/55944-phelps-hitting-dat-weed/#findComment-578814 Share on other sites More sharing options...
outoftowntiger 0 Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 Here's the deal. I don't smoke. I don't snort. I don't shoot. At the same time, if I chose to do so, I'm really trying to understand how, under our constitution, the government has the right and authority to ban controlled substances. And I'm also trying to understand how some people on this board support the government in this. Obviously, if somebody gets high and drives a car, then they constitute a danger to others and should be arrested--just the same as if they had too much Jim Beam. But if they do it at home and don't cost the taxpayer money, then let them kill themselves. After all, a lot of you guys are laissez faire about every other aspect of government. How have you been brainwashed on this? This is particularly true when you look at the routine erosion of civil rights for ordinary Americans. After all, if your son's friend has a doobie on him while riding in your car, it gets taken away by the government without due process. If you have several thousand dollars worth of cash on you, the government has an automatic right to take it from you unless you can explain exactly where you got it. And with this erosion of civil rights, with this cramming of people into our prisons, with the continued militarization of our police, with the spending of hundreds of billions spent, what has our so-called War On Drugs accomplished? Nothing. The usage of drugs in this country is about the same as 1970 when Nixon started this foolishness to begin with. Further, the illegality of drugs is destabilizing Mexico, it directly or indirectly is the source of a large proportion of violent crime in the country. In short, after almost 40 years of bungling, haven't we realized that, once again, government isn't the solution here? preach on brother... Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/55944-phelps-hitting-dat-weed/#findComment-578881 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tigermike 4,296 Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 Check this out. Could he be arrested because of the story in the British tabloid? Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/55944-phelps-hitting-dat-weed/#findComment-580220 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthLink02 8 Posted February 6, 2009 Author Share Posted February 6, 2009 Check this out. Could he be arrested because of the story in the British tabloid? There is a 1% chance that the authorities in South Carolina will arrest him. I have heard the Sheriff AND I know South Carolina is one of the strictest states weed-wise but I don't see them going forward with it. Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/55944-phelps-hitting-dat-weed/#findComment-580426 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LegalEagle 22 Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 I'll never watch him swim again - if he hasn't "forgotten" how already. He's still arguably a better role model than Ike Turner, who I patterned my life by. Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/55944-phelps-hitting-dat-weed/#findComment-580511 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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