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02 Feb 09 - 07:48 PM (#2555714) Subject: Obit: Bong Hits for Michael Phelps... From: Bobert Hmmmm??? Lets see... Last I heard is that he was gonna get $50M from sponsorships for winnin' all them gold medals... Now, seems that the boy done got some good sh*t so good that he lost his mind and thought that puttin' up some pics of him tokin' on the innernet would be cool??? Well, kiss that $50M good-bye, Mike... Man, that must have been some dynomite smoke to do that to his thought processin'... Wish he'd send me a bud 'er two... B;~) |
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02 Feb 09 - 07:48 PM (#2555716) Subject: RE: Obit: Bong Hits for Michael Phelps... From: Bobert New keyboard, same story... S'ok. We got the routine down. ~Mod/De-oopser |
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02 Feb 09 - 07:58 PM (#2555724) Subject: RE: Bong Hits for Michael Phelps... From: wysiwyg See previous thread, "Your Career, Dead." ~S~ |
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02 Feb 09 - 09:35 PM (#2555778) Subject: RE: Bong Hits for Michael Phelps... From: 3refs Can anyone think of any (however small) benefits from the cannabis laws(prohibition)? Excluding the prison industry (the fastest growing industry in the U.S.) or the alcohol industry (who always has been against any competition - especially cannabis). Or the oil companies (who started the whole thing to crush the hemp industry). So many other things can be done with hemp besides smoking it(I'll remember a few in a bit). Ross Rebagliati of Canada got to keep his Olympic Gold after testing positive. Why should someones life be ruined for taking a toke? I hope the people who keep this crap up choke on their single malt Scotch! With the world in the state it's in, do we really need to be spending "Billions"(milliards for my UK friends)? |
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02 Feb 09 - 09:57 PM (#2555793) Subject: RE: Bong Hits for Michael Phelps... From: Bee-dubya-ell Can anyone think of any (however small) benefits from the cannabis laws(prohibition)? Well, the fact that it's illegal does make growing it a highly profitable enterprise. If it were suddenly to be legalized, the economies of a couple of northern California counties would implode. The student population of U. Cal. Berkley would drop by 75% 'cause none of the parents financing their kids' educations by growing pot would be able to afford tuition. |
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02 Feb 09 - 10:05 PM (#2555802) Subject: RE: Bong Hits for Michael Phelps... From: 3refs I don't know if we are ready for total legalization, but the time for decriminalization is long overdue. Here in Canada it will say on your Criminal Record; Possession(or possession with the purpose, or trafficking or whatever) Of A Narcotic and we all know that Marijuana is not a narcotic! |
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03 Feb 09 - 07:22 AM (#2556010) Subject: RE: Bong Hits for Michael Phelps... From: RangerSteve He's human. And he's acting his age. We can't have that. The media set him up as a God and he owes us a perfect God-like life. The way some newspapers are acting, you'd think he was president uf the U.S. and was caught having sex with a baby. Personally, I think the whole business isn't worth reporting. People his age smoke pot. Big F-ing deal. I've got far more serious things to worry about, and so does the media. They just don't know it. |
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03 Feb 09 - 09:17 AM (#2556102) Subject: RE: Bong Hits for Michael Phelps... From: Uncle_DaveO 3refs, you made one comment which I don't understand. It goes like this: Or the oil companies (who started the whole thing to crush the hemp industry). Based on what facts? And why would the oil companies want to crush the hemp industry. I'm not attacking you. I just don't understand the reference, and hope you will explain what it's about. Dave Oesterreich |
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03 Feb 09 - 01:06 PM (#2556305) Subject: RE: Bong Hits for Michael Phelps. -- BFD! From: Genie I may email all the companies Phelps does endorsements for and tell them if they drop him I'll drop them. (Of course, I'm not sure how much business I give them anyway.) Phelps's earlier DUI naturally tarnished his image, but people have got to get over the demonization of marijuana. If Phelps had been video'd throwing back a 6 pack or doing tequila shooters when he wasn't "on duty," no one would've batted an eye, much less talked of his image being sullied. Now the media are comparing Phelps's doing a bong hit with Kobe Bryant's (alleged) sexual abuse of a young woman. Horribly unreasonablle comparison. I hope this "scandal" provokes a long-overdue, reasonable dialogue about the relative evils of casual pot smoking vs. the "war on drugs" and its extension to marijuana. Phelps's suitability as a role model for kids is, IMO, no less than if he'd been seen at a kegger. Genie |
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03 Feb 09 - 01:28 PM (#2556322) Subject: RE: Bong Hits for Michael Phelps... From: Rapparee A prosecutor in South Carolina (I think it is) is investigating him for a criminal charge. |
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03 Feb 09 - 03:06 PM (#2556408) Subject: RE: Bong Hits for Michael Phelps... From: Stilly River Sage Craig Ferguson did a lucid and sensible rant about this last night. Leave the kid alone, he's acting his age. SRS |
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03 Feb 09 - 03:18 PM (#2556415) Subject: RE: Bong Hits for Michael Phelps... From: PoppaGator When I first became aware of this (maybe a day-and-a-half ago), I felt a glimmer of hope that maybe public opinion would FINALLY come around to sanity regarding pot. After all, if Michael Phelps can catch an occasional buzz and still accomplish what he does, how freakin' bad can the stuff possibly be? I'm becoming less optimistic by the minute now. Some asshole politician in a state where he doesn't live is grandstanding about prosecution? Gimme a break... |
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03 Feb 09 - 03:56 PM (#2556441) Subject: RE: Bong Hits for Michael Phelps... From: Rapparee One toke over the line, Sweet Jesus, One toke over the line.... |
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03 Feb 09 - 04:19 PM (#2556460) Subject: RE: Bong Hits for Michael Phelps... From: bobad He's being paid millions of dollars to be a role model and, unfortunately in the US anyway, role models aren't supposed to smoke pot, at least not in public. Hypocrisy reigns. |
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04 Feb 09 - 02:39 PM (#2557242) Subject: RE: Bong Hits for Michael Phelps... From: 3refs Sorry I didn't realize that I wasn't logged in, so that's me the guest! |
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04 Feb 09 - 03:07 PM (#2557263) Subject: RE: Bong Hits for Michael Phelps... From: GUEST,lox something I do when I forget to add my moniker is to cut and paste my post and post it again with my name on it. That way the elves can just delete the offending one and noone has to worry. |
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04 Feb 09 - 03:26 PM (#2557283) Subject: RE: Bong Hits for Michael Phelps... From: michaelr Who is Michael Phelps? |
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04 Feb 09 - 03:28 PM (#2557285) Subject: RE: Bong Hits for Michael Phelps... From: open mike http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/31/michael-phelps-bong-pictu_n_162842.html http://news.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view/2009_02_03_Golden_boy_Micheal_Phelps_in_good_company_with_canna-bust:_Pot_stink_overblown/srvc=home&position=also I agree with Poppa Gator: "I felt a glimmer of hope that maybe public opinion would FINALLY come around to sanity regarding pot. After all, if Michael Phelps can catch an occasional buzz and still accomplish what he does, how freakin' bad can the stuff possibly be?" |
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04 Feb 09 - 06:04 PM (#2557390) Subject: RE: Bong Hits for Michael Phelps... From: Bobert Yeah, why the govrenemnt is all that upset about hemp is mind bogglin'... B~ |
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05 Feb 09 - 03:41 AM (#2557716) Subject: RE: Bong Hits for Michael Phelps... From: Genie If a South Carolina prosecutor is trying to press criminal charges for Phelps doing a bong hit, I'd say South Carolina needs to grow up (and spend their taxpayers' dollars on stuff that's important to their residents). |
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05 Feb 09 - 03:43 AM (#2557718) Subject: RE: Bong Hits for Michael Phelps... From: Genie Bobad, I'd say anyone with the skill and discipline that Phelps has is still a pretty darn good role model for kids, even if he doesn't meet some people's standards of perfection in all areas. |
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06 Feb 09 - 01:40 AM (#2558683) Subject: RE: Bong Hits for Michael Phelps... From: Sawzaw Phelps: "I Clearly Made A Mistake" I forgive him. After all it is just a part of growing up like eating your buggers and jacking off. Eventually you grow out of it. |
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06 Feb 09 - 09:52 AM (#2558977) Subject: RE: Bong Hits for Michael Phelps... From: 3refs They removed my response to a query from Uncle Dave! "3refs, you made one comment which I don't understand. It goes like this: Or the oil companies (who started the whole thing to crush the hemp industry). Based on what facts? And why would the oil companies want to crush the hemp industry. I'm not attacking you. I just don't understand the reference, and hope you will explain what it's about." Dave Oesterreich This is what I think I said(and more)! Perhaps I was a little over zealous in my attack of the oil companies! In reality, is was more likely Prohibition and the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937. Although the prohibitionists(of both) were probably backed by the oil companies(I paint oil companies and Toronto with the same brush)! It must be noted, that 1 acre of hemp will produce 1000 gals of methanol in about 4 months. Hemp oil is considered the brightest oil for lighting. So why not eliminate the competition? 1 acre of hemp will also produce as much pulp fiber & cellulose as 4.1 acres of trees, so the huge lumber companies must have had their lobbyists too. It can be used for anything that cotton is used for and lasts 10 times longer. You can eat it, heat with it, make your cloths out of it and build your house out of it! The hemp plant uses the sun more efficiently than virtually any other plant on our planet. It can grow in almost any climate or soil condition. In the U.S.A. alone, there was between 4000 and 6000 hemp plantations in the mid-1800's(mostly for rope and bags ). The Slaves who worked on hemp plantations were payed and could buy their freedom(but stayed anyways). In all likelihood, it was the first plant modern man domesticated. Reference to hemp by the Chinese goes back 6000 years, and was one of the first "things" to be identified with a written symbol-looks like a little house with squiggly lines under it! The Chinese had hybridized hemp to the point where the seeds were as big as peas. Ancient text from China recommends hemp for just about everything, from increasing a mother's milk to urinary problems! And doesn't it say somewhere in some book "Ye shall make use of the HEMP" I really could go on and on about the benefits of hemp, marijuana, grass, ma, ganja, dope or whatever else you want to call it. I won't give you anymore ammunition with regards to my sanity, so, I'll end with this! In all honesty, I believe in a short period of time, if we could convince the opponents to dig their heads out of their asses, we could turn this financial crises we are having around just by growing "DOPE". After you have picked yourself up off the floor and have stopped laughing, just for one minute, think of the possibilities. I've already told you a minuscule amount of it's vast uses. It would be so easy to develop an(another)industry for hemp! The use and need for petroleum based products would become virtually non-existent! The need for synthetic materials would become "a need" instead of a desire! Starvation could become a thing of the past! The devastation that the stripping of our forests has caused could quite possibly become something our great grand children could only see in old movies and pictures because of responsible tree farming. Think of four things that are REALLY more important to our existence on this planet! Yes we need leaders, government, laws, science, health care professionals, technologists of all kinds and way down the list to the lonely labourer. Think of the "BILLIONS OF DOLLARS" alone that will be saved alone by eliminating prosecution! No more executions....What a by-product! It's much easier to control something than it is to ban it!!! TY...TYVM |
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06 Feb 09 - 10:16 AM (#2559003) Subject: RE: Bong Hits for Michael Phelps... From: Wesley S What I don't understand is what this prosecutor is going to charge him with. From what I can see the only thing they can say is that there is a picture that exists of someone who looks like Phelps holding something that looks like a bong. No possession, no DUI - just a picture of possible past behavior. As far as I know that's not a crime. |
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06 Feb 09 - 03:23 PM (#2559337) Subject: RE: Bong Hits for Michael Phelps... From: Sawzaw Obama's half-brother arrested on charge of marijuana possession From David McKenzie CNN NAIROBI, Kenya (CNN) -- George Obama, the half-brother of U.S. President Barack Obama, has been arrested by Kenyan police on a charge of possession of marijuana, police said Saturday. George Obama was arrested in Kenya on a charge for possession of marijuana, according to police. George Obama was arrested in Kenya on a charge for possession of marijuana, according to police. Inspector Augustine Mutembei, the officer in charge, said Obama was arrested on charges of possession of cannabis, known in Kenya as Bhang, and resisting arrest. He is scheduled to appear in court Monday, Mutembei said. He is being held at Huruma police post in the capital of Nairobi. Speaking from behind bars, Obama denied the allegations. "They took me from my home," he said, "I don't know why they are charging me." George Obama and the president barely know each other, though they have met. George Obama was one of the president's few close relatives who did not go to the inauguration in Washington last week. In his memoir, "Dreams from My Father," Barack Obama describes meeting George as a "painful affair." Barack Obama's trip to Kenya meant meeting family he had never known. CNN tracked down George Obama in August and found him at a small house in Huruma, a Nairobi slum, where he lives with his mother's extended family. His birth certificate shows that he is Barack Obama's half-brother. The two men share a Kenyan father. In the memoir, Barack Obama struggles to reconcile with his father after he left him and his mother when he was just a child. Barack Obama Sr. died in a car accident when George was just 6 months old. Like his half-brother, George hardly knew his father. George was his father's last child and had not been aware of his famous half-brother growing up. Unlike his grandmother in Kogelo, in western Kenya, George Obama had received little attention from the media until reports about him surfaced in August. The reports sprung from an Italian Vanity Fair article saying George Obama lived in a shack and was "earning less than a dollar a day." Those reports left George Obama angry. "I was brought up well. I live well even now," he said. "The magazines, they have exaggerated everything. "I think I kind of like it here. There are some challenges, but maybe it is just like where you come from, there are the same challenges," Obama said. Obama, who is in his mid-20s, said at the time that he was learning to become a mechanic and was active in youth groups in Huruma. He said he tried to help the community as much as he can. |
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06 Feb 09 - 08:41 PM (#2559642) Subject: RE: Bong Hits for Michael Phelps... From: GUEST,Gene the Chantey man |
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06 Feb 09 - 08:57 PM (#2559652) Subject: RE: Bong Hits for Michael Phelps... From: GUEST,GUEST,Gene the Chantey man Hey a hit on my Bong wouldn't do me any harm For:Genie If you haven't found out yet our favorite sea shanty is called: "Roll the Old Chariot Along" Traditional - Lyrics from Shanties from the Seven Seas, by Stan Hugill |
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06 Feb 09 - 09:39 PM (#2559676) Subject: RE: Bong Hits for Michael Phelps... From: Donuel A talking head corporate spokes woman said she has followed Phelps career since he was 9 years old said on ABC today "He always wanted to be the spokes person and role model of American Youth so he knew full well that setting a terrible example for the youth of America would result in suspension and punishment!" She should get a real job and stop leeching off kids who actually do something. She has no place punishing him for buying into her corporate play thing career by demonizing him at the drop of hat or a toke of virtual weed that can not be seen or smelled. I think the US snow board team should kick her ass. |
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07 Feb 09 - 01:47 PM (#2560153) Subject: RE: Bong Hits for Michael Phelps... From: Genie Good one, Chanetyman. Yeah, I know the song well. And that verse should always be included. But, hey, if Michael Phelps is no longer a sports idol or role model because he used a bong, does that mean we can no longer look up to President Obama because he openly (and not too apologetically, IIRC) owns to have smoked pot in his youth and even, unlike Bill Clinton, having INHALED? (Obama on inhaling: "That was the point." I think the US government and the media need to grow up. (And reading what 3refs said would be a start.) ====== Sawzaw " ... After all it is just a part of growing up like ... jacking off. Eventually you grow out of it." Really? Do Spaw and LittleHawk know about that? |
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07 Feb 09 - 02:48 PM (#2560210) Subject: RE: Bong Hits for Michael Phelps... From: Sawzaw I think someone who admits that they tried it and decided it was wrong and quits is wiser than someone who denies ever doing it. Same way with booze, coke, cigarettes etc. Bad, unhealthy vices weather legal or illegal. |
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07 Feb 09 - 03:37 PM (#2560255) Subject: RE: Bong Hits for Michael Phelps... From: Sawzaw Washington Post (Jan. 3, 2007): In an interview during his Senate race two years ago, Obama said he admitted using drugs because he thought it was important for "young people who are already in circumstances that are far more difficult than mine to know that you can make mistakes and still recover." |
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07 Feb 09 - 03:40 PM (#2560259) Subject: RE: Bong Hits for Michael Phelps... From: Sawzaw Obama wrote that he used alcohol, marijuana and cocaine during his teenage years to "push questions of who I was out of my mind." At the 2008 Civil Forum on the Presidency, Obama identified his high-school drug use as his greatest moral failure. |
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08 Feb 09 - 12:37 AM (#2560586) Subject: RE: Bong Hits for Michael Phelps... From: Genie Sawzaw - " ... At the 2008 Civil Forum on the Presidency, Obama identified his high-school drug use as his greatest moral failure." Gawd, I so hope that is TRUE! Genie |
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08 Feb 09 - 10:31 AM (#2560832) Subject: RE: Bong Hits for Michael Phelps... From: bankley 'Subway' will keep Phelps... Kellogg's cancelled.. wonder how many stoners eat lots of cereal... watch for a drop in sales.. "if he goes totally broke, 8 gold medals would get him a nice stash, so support the troops, they're bringing back some fine Afghani hash" (true) |
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16 Jun 09 - 07:25 AM (#2657578) Subject: RE: Bong Hits for Michael Phelps... From: Sawzaw Updated: May 18, 2009, 7:21 AM ET Phelps beat in 100-meter freestyle Comment Email Print Share Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Two days, two losses for Michael Phelps. Phelps was beaten again at the Charlotte UltraSwim, losing to French star Frederick Bousquet in the 100-meter freestyle Sunday night. Phelps touched nearly a full second behind Bousquet, world-record holder in the 50 free, after losing his first final in nearly a year the previous night. Aaron Peirsol beat Phelps in the 100 backstroke. |
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16 Jun 09 - 07:43 AM (#2657590) Subject: RE: Bong Hits for Michael Phelps... From: Bobert Swimmin' and bongs hits don't mix but I'm glad to see you made it thru yer drug treatment, Sawz... We've been missin' you... BTW, drinking vinegar ain't 100% in maskin' THC in your pee so just say "no" and keep on truckin'... B~ |
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16 Jun 09 - 09:24 PM (#2658211) Subject: RE: Bong Hits for Michael Phelps... From: Peace Doo wah doo wah doo wah diddy . . . . |
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16 Jun 09 - 09:31 PM (#2658216) Subject: RE: Bong Hits for Michael Phelps... From: Peace "At the 2008 Civil Forum on the Presidency, Obama identified his high-school drug use as his greatest moral failure." Drug use is a moral failure? Does the guy/gal using it for medical reasons then have a 'moral failure'? Does anyone believe this shit? |
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16 Jun 09 - 09:33 PM (#2658217) Subject: RE: Bong Hits for Michael Phelps... From: Peace Does anyone have any shit? |
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16 Jun 09 - 09:42 PM (#2658222) Subject: RE: Bong Hits for Michael Phelps... From: Peace Damned government finds out about this, it'll be illegal, too. "The purpose of this study is to gain understanding of the relationship between ejaculation and serum testosterone level in men. The serum testosterone concentrations of 28 volunteers were investigated daily during abstinence periods after ejaculation for two phases. The authors found that the fluctuations of testosterone levels from the 2nd to 5th day of abstinence were minimal. On the 7th day of abstinence, however, a clear peak of serum testosterone appeared, reaching 145.7% of the baseline ( P < 0.01). No regular fluctuation was observed following continuous abstinence after the peak. Ejaculation is the precondition and beginning of the special periodic serum testosterone level variations, which would not occur without ejaculation. The results showed that ejaculation-caused variations were characterized by a peak on the 7th day of abstinence; and that the effective time of an ejaculation is 7 days minimum. These data are the first to document the phenomenon of the periodic change in serum testosterone level; the correlation between ejaculation and periodic change in the serum testosterone level, and the pattern and characteristics of the periodic change. J Zhejiang Univ Sci. 2003 Mar-Apr;4(2):236-40. A research on the relationship between ejaculation and serum testosterone level in men. |
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17 Jun 09 - 09:10 AM (#2658495) Subject: RE: Bong Hits for Michael Phelps... From: Sawzaw SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Michael Phelps has lost the 100-meter freestyle at the Santa Clara International Grand Prix. The 14-time Olympic gold medalist finished second behind Brent Hayden of Canada in Sunday's night final. Hayden, the leading qualifier, touched in 48.44 seconds. Phelps, swimming in lane 8, clocked 48.87. |
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17 Jun 09 - 04:30 PM (#2658838) Subject: RE: Bong Hits for Michael Phelps... From: jeddy i don't see the problem with people smoking pot,hash etc. that would make me very hipocrital maybe this is why my spelling is so bad, my fingers can't keep up with my brain,or should that be the other way round. one would have thought that the U.S. would have figured out that prohibition doesn't work, so why does the same not aplly to everthing. if you legalise something you canmake sure what it contains and get rid of the big gangsta types who rule the black market. like someone else said it has so many uses, think of the tax that would come from each different use!!! i have never known anyone who have started any trouble whist being JUST stoned we are too busy either getting munchies or getting the giggles,although more public toilets would be needed having had the too much laughing makes you wee thing myself...too much info i think oh well. take care all jade x x ps be organised there is nothing worse than running out. |
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17 Jun 09 - 06:06 PM (#2658915) Subject: RE: Bong Hits for Michael Phelps... From: number 6 If you guys want some really good shit they're a couple of good suppliers here in SJ that can satisfy your desire. My advice to you is just don't rip them off, ok. The last guy that did was literally hacked to pieces out on a sidewalk. I know one of the paramedics that was called to the scene. He was so shakin up by it that he was off work for a couple of weeks. Anyway, they must deal in good shit because some higher ups in the justice system and government let them off on a misdemeanor. So they're back in business with quality product. Pot will never be legalized since that would put a plug into the payoff $money$ trail. The government is one of the largest players (indirectly) to the in the pot business. So, call this bullshit if you want but I certainly would not buy pot off of anyone ... I don't wish to support a hypocritical greedy government, or some marketing network that uses violence to protect is large $profit$ foothold. As for Mike Phelps, I really don't give a rat's ass. biLL |
