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...
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.
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.
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.
Matt Palevsky | Posted 05.25.2011
The photo of fourteen time Olympic gold medalist, Michael Phelps, smoking marijuana from a glass bong has made its way onto prime time television and ...
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.
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.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011
The Kellogg Company may have thought it was making the smart public-relations play by announcing it was not renewing its contract with 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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Maia Szalavitz | Posted 05.25.2011
Imagine how the economy would grind to (even more of!) a halt if we tried to arrest and incarcerate all of the people who had ever smoked pot.
Huffington Post | Editors | Posted 05.25.2011
***UPDATE Feb 5th, 6:34 pm*** Ad Age is reporting Thursday afternoon that Olympic champion Michael Phelps is being dropped by one of his sponsors ove...
Nick Graham | Posted 05.25.2011