Jan 31, 2009

[ Michael Phelps gets High ]

"I'm pretty disappointed but not surprised. Fame gets to everyone, it doesn't matter who you are, if you are the best at anything its going to happen to you, your going to mess up and people are going to look down on you... not that I'm defending him, because what he did was wrong and I will not push it out of my mind. I know he's lost one fan who knows how many others he's lost as well."

Michael Phelps gets high. Yep. Turns out that smoking marijuana is, in fact, a performance enhancing-drug. This is a non-story, but what might be a story, is how many people are leaving (grammatically incorrect) comments about how enraged they are.

Maybe instead of being mad at Michael Phelps, they should be mad at themselves for believing for so many years that smoking weed hinders one's chances of success.
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1 comment:

annjancan said...

Exactly: this is an opportunity to re-evaluate stigmas against marijuana, not to punish an Olympian with 14 gold medals who will continue to be a role model, whether or not he's being sponsored by Kellogg. Have you seen Robin Williams Live on Broadway? He tackles the notion of marijuana being a "performance enhancing drug":

"The poor Canadian snowboarder, in the 1998 Olympics, they took away his medal because he tested positive for marijuana, which is kinda redundant number one, number two, they said that marijuana was a 'performance-enhancing drug.' Marijuana enhances many things, colors, flavors, sensations, but you are certainly not fucking empowered. When you're stoned, you're lucky if you can find your own goddamn feet. The only way it's a performance-enhancing drug is if there's a big fucking Hershey bar at the end of the run. Then you'll be like a Swiss ski jumper going, 'I'm there!'"

Psha.

<3 Annie

February 7, 2009 at 12:23 PM

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