by Alex BennettLeave Michael Phelps the fuck alone. Allow the poor guy to lead the life of a 23 year old. Hell, I wish I was 23 again and allowed to learn life by living it in every way possible and find out where I fit in it. What is 23 good for if you can't make mistakes. There's enough time for that later.
I'd like to know who the low life was that released the picture of Phelps sucking away on a bong, but he or she is the real criminal here. Doesn't Phelps have the right to a private life? We need laws to protect victims of this sort of thing. It seems that privacy just isn't protected. Just because he swam faster than anybody else, does that deny him privacy? He should be allowed to sue the people who took and then released the pictures along with all the asshole publications that published them.
Which brings us around to pot itself. There isn't a single informed human being in America who doesn't know what a benign drug it is. Sure it gets you high, but that's really all it does. It doesn't make you aggressive and commit hostile actions it only makes you hungry. But you know all that.
What really pisses me off is the public face on this thing. The news people all acting astonished and calling him reckless when in all probability if they are under 70, they have tried pot or been around it. It's hard to believe that after all these years we still pretend that it is some loathsome drug habit and still accept it's illegality.
Years ago in New York City, P.J. O'Rourke and I were passing a joint between us when P.J. commented "You know when we get older and get the power this shit's going to be legal". What happened? Not only to pot but to P.J? Oh well I suppose knowing P.J. he still thinks pot should be legal because he's of libertarian bent.
Years ago in New York City, P.J. O'Rourke and I were passing a joint between us when P.J. commented "You know when we get older and get the power this shit's going to be legal". What happened? Not only to pot but to P.J? Oh well I suppose knowing P.J. he still thinks pot should be legal because he's of libertarian bent.
When are we going to stop this charade? As far back as the Indian Hemp Commission report in 1906 the drug was deemed benign. The argument always goes "we need more studies". Aren't 103 years of studies enough.
It's time to make it legal, especially in California where they could use the tax revenue that pot would create.
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Not to mention all the tax money it would save by giving the cops one less thing to deal with.
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