Phelps and the fatty

Got this from Sherdog...
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<span style='font-family: Arial Black'>THAT MEANS IT'S FAKE!!</span></span>

Dear America,

I take it back. I don’t apologize. <span style='font-size: 26pt'><span style='font-family: Arial Black'>I AM NOT MICHAEL PHELPS!</span>
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Because you know what? It’s none of your goddamned business. I work my ass off 10 months per year. It’s that hard work that gave you all those gooey feelings of patriotism last summer. If during my brief window of down time I want to relax, enjoy myself, and partake of a substance that’s a hell of a lot less bad for me than alcohol, tobacco, or, frankly, most of the prescription drugs most of you are taking, well, you can spare me the lecture.

I put myself through hell. I make my body do things nature never really intended us to endure. All world-class athletes do. We do it because you love to watch us push ourselves as far as we can possibly go. Some of us get hurt. Sometimes permanently. You’re watching the Super Bowl tonight. You’re watching 300 pound men smash each while running at full speed, in full pads. You know what the average life expectancy of an NFL player is? Fifty-five. That’s about 20 years shorter than your average non-NFL player. Yet you watch. And cheer. And you jump up spill your beer when a linebacker lays out a wide receiver on a crossing route across the middle. The harder he gets hit, the louder and more enthusiastically you scream.

Yet you all get bent out of shape when Ricky Williams, or I, or Josh Howard smoke a little dope to relax. Why? Because the idiots you’ve elected to make your laws have have without a shred of evidence beat it into your head that smoking marijuana is something akin to drinking antifreeze, and done only by dirty hippies and sex offenders.

You’ll have to pardon my cynicism. But I call bullshit. You don’t give a damn about my health. You just get a voyeuristic thrill from watching an elite athlete fall from grace–all the better if you get to exercise a little moral righteousness in the process. And it’s hypocritical righteousness at that, given that 40 percent of you have tried pot at least once in your lives.

Here’s a crazy thought: If I can smoke a little dope and go on to win 14 Olympic gold medals, maybe pot smokers aren’t doomed to lives of couch surfing and video games, as our moronic government would have us believe. In fact, the list of successful pot smokers includes not just world class athletes like me, Howard, Williams, and others, it includes Nobel Prize winners, Pulitzer Prize winners, the last three U.S. presidents, several Supreme Court justices, and luminaries and success stories from all sectors of business and the arts, sciences, and humanities.

So go ahead. Ban me from the next Olympics. Yank my endorsement deals. Stick your collective noses in the air and get all indignant on me. While you’re at it, keep arresting cancer and AIDS patients who dare to smoke the stuff because it deadens their pain, or enables them to eat. Keep sending in goon squads to kick down doors and shoot little old ladies, maim innocent toddlers, handcuff elderly post-polio patients to their beds at gunpoint, and slaughter the family pet.

Tell you what. I’ll make you a deal. I’ll apologize for smoking pot when every politician who ever did drugs and then voted to uphold or strengthen the drug laws marches his ass off to the nearest federal prison to serve out the sentence he wants to impose on everyone else for committing the same crimes he committed. I’ll apologize when the sons, daughters, and nephews of powerful politicians who get caught possessing or dealing drugs in the frat house or prep school get the same treatment as the no-name, probably black kid caught on the corner or the front stoop doing the same thing.

Until then, I for one will have none of it. I smoked pot. I liked it. I’ll probably do it again. I refuse to apologize for it, because by apologizing I help perpetuate this stupid lie, this idea that what someone puts into his own body on his own time is any of the government’s damned business. Or any of yours. I’m not going to bend over and allow myself to be propaganda for this wasteful, ridiculous, immoral war.

Go ahead and tear me down if you like. But let’s see you rationalize in your next lame ONDCP commercial how the greatest motherfucking swimmer the world has ever seen . . . is also a proud pot smoker.

Yours,

<span style='font-size: 26pt'><span style='font-family: Arial Black'>NOT FUCKING REALLY</span></span> Michael Phelps

 

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Thanks for posting this. I look forward to the day that pot is glorified, regulated, marketed, and gets the profits that alcohol gets. I wish alcoholics would switch to pot. The world would be a better place. Fuck.

Go <span style='font-size: 26pt'><span style='font-family: Arial Black'>NOT FUCKING</span></span> Phelps!

 

I was a little disappointed when I heard he apologized for it, this more than makes up for it : P.

 

Wow... I don't smoke but that was deep. If it really came from him then Respect!

 

This was good stuff. I wonder how the media will try to twist this. Props to him though cause he made his perspective perfectly understood.

Stick it to the media and zombie america.

 

Let the guy do whatever the fuck he wants. Not enough that he had to train as hard as he did to win 8 gold medals for the US but people expect him to apologize for smoking a little pot. For Fucks Sake!

 

I was told that Phelps is an asshole, cause he flipped out on a radio station or something here once(in MD). But with this response, it just goes to show how much the media likes to crucify people and see them fall as quickly as possible. Trying to bring Phelps down, because he was so successful.

 

Holy shit if this is for real then respect +100%

 

I don't want no tax on my weed /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/frown.gif

 

Where is the source? I think its a fake.

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Trying to stay on topic; I tried pot for the first time a few days ago at a Super Bowl party.

My friend who had invited me said they had brownies baked with pot. He doesn't smoke but he decided to try some and he liked it and was having a good trip.

I had a small piece and doing my usual drinking. I honestly didn't feel anything different at first siting down watching the game. I got up to get some snacks and I noticed I felt a different buzz other than the one that comes with booze. It only felt weird as I walked. I shared this with my friend and he noticed the same feeling.

Sometime after the halftime show and having a full meal I ate a larger brownie than before. Minutes later I was not feeling good at all (sleepy, dizzy, nauseous). /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/frown.gif I was dozing in and out, I didn't even notice that the Cardinals came back and plus I missed the big play at the end.

At the end of the game people at the party noticed I was fucked up, my friend suggested I crash at his place. I thought I had felt worse in the past and got home OK so I took the train by myself. I stood up the entire hour ride home on the train swaying trying to keep conscious; people were giggling at me. heh heh

I got home and went straight to bed. Woke up less than five hours and still felt buzzed somewhat similar from the first brownie and it still carried for half the day at work. My friend next mid-morning called me and said he was waiting for the subway to go to work but turned back and called out sick.


Conclusion, I am not inclined to start smoking or eating special brownies again after the bad trip I had with the stuff.

 

Fake. Lame. Phelps will apologize until the day he dies.

http://www.reason.com/news/show/131438.html

Here's the original work, complete with hyperlinks and all.

 

Yeah shag, space food can mess with you like that.Don't put it in pizza, you'll be ill for days!

 

First of all no athlete should be considered a true role model and what phelps did was something that should have been more discrete but it wasn't something any of us would possibly want to do if we were in his position. There isn't too much bad in it beside from the fact pot is illegal in many places US included.

This just another case of the media blowing something way out of portion just because he happens to be famous and they expect all famous people to act better than the rest of us. (sure they do)

 

I got it from sherdog...said in the thread. Someone else wrote this as "what Phelps should of written/said."

 

Maybe you should have stated that it wasn't legit in your original post then.

Dumbass.


<span style='font-size: 8pt'>We are still cool man.</span>/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/blush.gif


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Lol@ phelps taking bong rips, im proud of him.

 

my roommate personally knew phelps because they went to school down the street from each other and he did say Phelps is a huge tool, so i don't doubt his dickwadery.

However I do agree with his essay. . . . he's still a massive tool though.

 

I have to say though, if you know you're a high-profile athlete with endorsements, even aside of doing drugs or anything else, you CANNOT do these things on camera. Phelps would have been smarter to go to that person and say, "erase that now or I'll smash your phone" or "that could ruin me, erase it." Anything!

He wasn't cognizant enough of his surroundings and he'll paid dearly for it.