This has to be the best argument for legalizing weed

[karpiel]

they're just sorry that they got photographed in the act...

For sure, either way it looks bad on TV.

[rdennhs]

The Union is such a sick flick

[Game Over]

roor pieces are cool, but they are factoryish--> like a step above graffix. give me a quality non-lathe hand blown one of a kind piece anyday. as long as it has a big fat glass on glass stem w/diffusser, im happy.

but i really want a volcano.

[strawjack]

im sure this is a repeat...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnZb5wi_jsU

[toast2266]

Wait, you're saying that you might rethink your position because he made a weak argument?

If such a weak argument causes you to rethink your position does that mean your position was weaker than the argument?

But if my position was "I'm all for legalizing weed," and my position is weaker than his argument, then wouldn't that mean that the position of legalizing weed is weaker than both my argument and his argument? That seems to create a paradox - his argument that weed should be legalized becomes weaker than his argument that weed should be legalized.

I have no idea what I'm talking about.

[pmcgrath]

fkna,great video.

[Professor Chaos]

Hey!, I know that chick from the compassion club. She's delivered to me more than once. She's pretty fucking cool.
Good film though. Despite having seen A LOT of them regarding this topic and regarding my region of the world, this one is one of the better ones.

[belgian]

That was an incredible film. I'll be showing that to everyone I know, thanks.

[2dois2b]

but i really want a volcano.

you won't regret it

[huckbucket]

I kinda wonder if these celebs are actually apologizing for inhaling or whether they're just sorry that they got photographed in the act...

More like ... he's pissed that all that lovely endorsement cash just went poof!!! Right or wrong you gotta think that Kellogs et al. put some sort of "morality" clause in their contract.

[ak_powder_monkey]

I'd prefer weed to remain illegal because it keeps multinational corporations out of the biz

[iggyskier]

I'd prefer weed to remain illegal because it keeps multinational corporations out of the biz

because organized crime is so much better....

[dbp]

There are quite a few good arguments for legalizing pot. In my opinion the best argument is that in a free society, the idea that the state can tell people what they put in their own bodies is rather absurd.

/not a smoker
//off to watch the video

[huckbucket]

More like ... he's pissed that all that lovely endorsement cash just went poof!!! Right or wrong you gotta think that Kellogs et al. put some sort of "morality" clause in their contract.

WAIT ... Hold the phone.

Phelps avoids hot water with sponsors—for now

http://sports.yahoo.com/top/news?slu...v=ap&type=lgns

[Benny Profane]

I'd prefer weed to remain illegal because it keeps multinational corporations out of the biz

Yeah, we don't want the violence and kidnappings to suddenly stop south of the border. Heaven forbid.

[Flaskman]

What Michael Phelps Should Have Said.

Dear America,

I take it back. I don’t apologize.

Because you know what? It’s none of your goddamned business. I work my ass off 10 months a 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, 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,

Michael Phelps

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

[SuperChief]

How come every time a big name role model type guy gets caught smoking, it was always a bad idea? They really that worried about sponsor money? Why do they all pass up the chance to show how harmless it is? They can't smoke pot but can openly drink?
.

Thats easy, Millions of dollars in endorsements, write me a fat check I'll tell ya whatever ya want to hear.

[splat]

because organized crime is so much better....

Actually, it can be better than multi-nationals. A prime example was vividly obvious in Vegas last week. Place is a ghost town. Cabbie told me that when the casinos fire you now, they just send a text message. Even your dealer wouldn't stoop that low.

[splat]

What Michael Phelps Should Have Said.

Dear America,

I take it back. I don’t apologize.

Because you know what? It’s none of your goddamned business. I work my ass off 10 months a 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, 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,

Michael Phelps

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

I agree. He woulda been the Brobama of Bud.

[Dug]

Watched through the whole thing. Great documentary.

[Benny Profane]

Holy crap. I'm watching a "documentary" on CNBC about the "Marijuana Trade" right now. It's an amazingly biased piece of propaganda against weed in many ways. All it produces is violent crime and pollution, according to this report. Don't relax, this is the attitude most of America is exposed to. It will never be legal.

[rdennhs]

Holy crap. I'm watching a "documentary" on CNBC about the "Marijuana Trade" right now. It's an amazingly biased piece of propaganda against weed in many ways. All it produces is violent crime and pollution, according to this report. Don't relax, this is the attitude most of America is exposed to. It will never be legal.

I think after watching whats happened with Phelps and "the police investigating" also, just recently having watched the doc it's easier to see this, I'm also watching it right now. I had an idea that the culture was flourishing out there, but not like they depicted it in the show. They've got it goin on.

Were they saving this for another Ricky Williams incident? I find it hard to believe this comes on the day after one of these incidents out of coincidence. I hate this woman so much, despite how hot she is, a man should have done it.

[Benny Profane]

This thing was shown about a month ago, and was "the most highly rated program" on CNBC at that point. It really is a piece of shit. They just interviewed Bush's "Drug Czar", and he made a connection with fields in NoCal and beheadings in Mexico. Actually claimed that Mexicans were kidnapped and brought up there to work on the crop. Amazing. I want to taze that girl.

[rdennhs]

figured i'd post some other good dope propaganda

http://www.ninjavideo.net/video/18573
good can cup documentary