You know the story.......so does it really matter if he took a bong hit? I am sure his sponsors will drop out and the will vilify him as the Devil. We will hear the terms image, sports role-model and gateway drug. Crap. So what, he took a bong hit....I've taken a few in my day and I am not robbing Best Buys for heroin now. In fact, I have never been in jail, arrested or been a burden on society for my drug use. I liked it and didn't go down the Darth Vader path to all the drugs with alphabet sounding names that the kids use nowadays. In fact, never got on coke because of it. So this physical specimen who can swim like a fish got stoned. Good for him. There's a lot of hard work involved in preparing for that type of life and rewards. And it's not like pot was a performance-enhancing drug. It doesn't make you swim faster...(not for me), run faster (although the pain of running does not seem so bad) or make you have better endurance in any sport (but it did make mountain biking and roller-blading more fun..it seemed). So Mr. Phelps....I am sorry that you are about to be crucified for this photo.....it will be a character-builder and hopefully you will endure as you have on the world's stage of sport. Oh....and remember it's "puff-puff give".
Oh no! A college kid smoked some marijuana! Stop the presses!!!!!
ReplyDeletePersonally, never hit the stuff. That was my personal choice. However, I don't think it's the gateway drug that everyone else in the world seems to like to think it is. I've always thought of it as the hard liquor to cigarette's beer.