Michael Phelps Bong Picture: A Gold Medal Toker
Posted by: Peter Davis on: February 1, 2009
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Olympic Gold Medal swimmer Michael Phelps hit the news today or should I say, the news caught him in a picture taking a hit from a bong. I don’t want to sound prudent — because in every right I’m just as bad as Michael Phelps — but what he did was wrong.
I’m not going to argue that Marijuana has it’s qualities and perhaps is the “wonder drugs” that God or this planet freely gives to us to cure a wide range of aliments from Glaucoma to Alzheimers; I’m not going to argue that Hemp probably is the most resilient textile product and endless renewable energy resource; but, what I’m going to argue is that because Governments know these facts, they keep the plant illegal.
Thus, the fact that Marijuana is illegal, will drive the market to criminal organizations that trade in the product. This highly corrupt and competitive market leads to crime and ultimately murder of both innocent and guilty parties.
Even though the argument is often used that Marijuana is a harmless drug, to deliver the product to the end user came with a hefty price attached and legalized Marijuana is the the only solution to endless crime and murder to support the underground infrastructure.
I don’t have a problem with Michael Phelps taking a bong load; but, as all users of the drug, we need to understand that we are indirectly hurting innocent people in the long run.
1 | Anonymous
July 22, 2009 at 3:38 pm
Totally agree.
Now that you come to think about it, if an Olympian gold medal winner is a ‘pothead’; what does that say about the stigma surrounding marijuana use?
*Steve Jobs made apple while smoking pot
*That guy who found CNN smoked pot regularly
*Nearly half of Americans (around 48%) are now saying in polls and online that they agree marijuana should be taxed to help us out in this financial crisis.
http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/2009/07/15/20090715biz-legalizingpot.html
$1.4billion would be collected in the first year through tax ($50 an ounce bags) if California legalized soon; and its been predicted that treating marijuana like its much more damaging and intoxicating cousin Alcohol would dramatically decrease the funding for all illegal drug cartels and terrorists (that the government are fighting).
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For more, watch THE UNION; a documentary on all of this.
Now I’ve gone on quiet a bit, haven’t I? But I say it’s time we ignore what the most profitable industry in the united states (pharms) wants and legalize this beautiful plant. The Pharmaceutical Industry cannot compete with what experts call “the most wide-ranging natural medicine in the world”.. Cannabis! You can grow it at home, and they can’t patent it!
At least start with legalizing hemp, which is by and large the most durable natural fiber on the face of this planet. Not to mention that it’s a natural fuel, paper and medicine too.
I’ll let you think on that for a while…