Michael Phelps Bong Picture: Olympic Champion Caught Smoking Marijuana: UPDATED
***UPDATED February 5th, 10:20PM*** Michael Phelps was suspended from competition for three months by USA Swimming in the wake of the photo that show...
***UPDATED February 5th, 10:20PM*** Michael Phelps was suspended from competition for three months by USA Swimming in the wake of the photo that show...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
Michael Phelps' marijuana flap has not diminished his commercial viability, if the latest Subway ad is any indication. The sandwich company stuck by P...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
**UPDATED WITH THE WHOLE INTERVIEW*** Michael Phelps gave his first sit-down interview after his infamous marijuana-smoking incident to Matt Lauer, a...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
I quite liked Mark McKinnon's piece in The Daily Beast, today, about Twitter "jumping the shark." I especially liked his admonition that we all must ...
Marisa Treviño | Posted 05.25.2011
When I saw that now-infamous picture of Phelps smoking marijuana, my first thought was how he was lucky he was a white, lanky likeable kid.
AP | SEANNA ADCOX | Posted 05.25.2011
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Now that Michael Phelps won't face drug charges, he can try to distance himself from a photo that showed the Olympian smoking a...
David Sirota | Posted 05.25.2011
In a country where about half the population has smoked pot, we're expected to be ragingly angry that Phelps went to a party and hit his friend's bong. What a sad joke on so many levels.
Stanton Peele | Posted 11.17.2011
Life preservation -- health and happiness -- are more basic instincts than the instinct to use or not use substances.
David Henry Sterry | Posted 05.25.2011
Tell all your friends and family not to give Kellogg's one single penny, ruble, rupee or drachma of your money. Let's show Kellogg's what we think of them acting ugly towards our Michael Phelps.
Andrea Chalupa | Posted 05.25.2011
There is a chance, and it's a window that will last as long as Grapes of Wrath 2.0, to legalize marijuana in the name of industry and creating jobs.
Keli Goff | Posted 05.25.2011
Phelps's DUI arrest was a non-issue for the corporations who clamored to have his name and likeness all over their products. Now those same sponsors suddenly have some standards.
Don Parker | Posted 05.25.2011
Kellogg's has revealed that the company dropped Phelps as their spokesperson for undermining its corporate mission--to keep as many Americans as possible addicted to synthetic chemicals, food dyes, and artificial sweeteners.
Rob Kall | Posted 11.17.2011
If federal legislation for legalizing marijuana included taxes that would help pay for the bailout or create a million or more jobs, it's hard to imagine Barack-who-inhaled-Obama vetoing the bill.
Cenk Uygur | Posted 05.25.2011
This firing is political. Kellogg is choosing sides with the minority of the country that cares about so-called moral improprieties like this. As a business, is that the side it wants to be on?
Jason Flom | Posted 05.25.2011
Michael Phelps is still a hero to America and his career should not go up in smoke because of a single mistake.
Ethan Nadelmann | Posted 05.25.2011
Tens of millions of Americans think that the public condemnation of Phelps is a farce. we're sick and tired of the public outings, and forced apologies and recantations, which perpetuate this shameless hypocrisy.
Norm Stamper | Posted 05.25.2011
I'd be willing to bet your pension, Sheriff, that every police officer in the country knows you have no legal mandate to arrest Michael Phelps.
Ross Hyzer | Posted 05.25.2011
We as a society need to mete out toothsome justice to the reprobate Michael Phelps. Maybe a supermax prison on the bottom of the ocean would be able to contain his heinous crimes?
Sean Carman | Posted 05.25.2011
If there's any justice, the Olympic committee will give Phelps another gold medal. Forget all those athletes on performance-enhancing drugs. Phelps won 8 golds on one of the most performance-diminishing drugs known to man.
Jason Whitlock | Posted 05.25.2011
America gives its marketable, talented and wealthy weed-smokers the Santonio Holmes treatment. We forgive and quickly forget.
Lee Stranahan | Posted 05.25.2011
Kellogg's has decided to end their relationship with Phelps after a photo of him surfaced doing exactly what most Kellogg's customers do right before enjoying a bowl of Rice Krispies with an Eggo on top.
Keith Thomson | Posted 05.25.2011
According to a 2002 Time/CNN poll, 47% of Americans have smoked marijuana. Here's a list of famous users and advocates of the plant.
John Wellington Ennis | Posted 05.25.2011
Contrary to the negative backlash predicted, Phelps's sponsors are proactive, seizing on Phelps' snapshot to re-market a guy the country already loves, only now with 10% more bad boy cred.
The Sportsman's Daily | Posted 05.25.2011
"What are you looking at?" Johnson demanded of a young female reporter seated in the middle of the third row. "Why are you looking at me like that?? Stop looking at me like that!!!"
Ann Shoket | Posted 05.25.2011
I flashed back to 2004 when Phelps was arrested for a DUI. He was 19, fresh off Athens and the magazine where I worked was honoring him for being a role model for young people.
Nick Graham | Posted 05.25.2011