Isn't it irony that everyone is getting all upset that a 23 year old swimmer named Michael Phelps smoked pot at a party, but nobody got upset when they found out that Obama used cocaine and pot in high school and college??

Welcome to the circus.

haha

More of the same.

I just love comparative guilt.

Poor Phelps...several things here I think are funny. Phelps kept his endorsements when he drank like a fish, got stopped and sentenced to probation DUI and dated a stripper. After all drinking like a fish, DUI and dating strippers is what a red blooded American boy is suppose to do right?

Then a picture surfaces of him hitting a bong.

People lose their minds?!?

Seriously the guy hit a bong? How many gold metals did he win?

The funny part is that if anyone was being truthful here they'd have to admit he hit a bong and still excelled.

On a non-serious note can you imagine this guys lung capacity? Bet he cleared that bong easily.

hahaha I bet he would...but I can honestly say that I have never tried it, never did any drugs other then alcohol...

Is it wrong that that was the first thing I though when I saw the pic?

Well, according to this and other statistics I've seen over time almost half of American adults have tried pot.
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A December 2002 CNN/Time magazine survey found that 47 percent of American adults had tried marijuana. The number of people who use it regularly has increased to about 15 million.

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/30/on-the-legalization-or-not-of-marijuana/
(The above is from an interesting article about legalization)
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So Phelps it appears is not alone.

Nice to see a poster here rightly calling alcohol a drug as well. It seems too many people downplay or forget the drugs they subject their bodies to on a regular basis.

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Caffeine I personally think is evil. One site (faculty.washington.edu/chudler/caff.html) says more than 80% of American adults consume caffeine daily!

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Adult use of antidepressants almost tripled between 1988-1994 and 1999-2000 in the U.S. Ten percent of women 18 and older and 4 percent of men now take antidepressants.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) shows that at least half of all Americans takes at least one prescription drug, with one in six taking three or more medications.
http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/healthcare/a/usmedicated.htm

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Phelps is going to show up I am sure here and there apologizing for his youthful indiscretion. How many Americans will watch and wag their fingers and how many will watch and think that could have been me?