No Pot Charges for Phelps

61. This is amazing, a star, always gets off, this we know.......................too bad the others were not hometown hero's.
Eight other people were arrested in connection with the photo -- seven for possession and one for dealing. Such double crap justice.

Posted at 9:11PM on Feb 16th 2009 by Lynne

62. Hail the swimming hero, who has been got for drunk driving before and now pot. Kids grow up and be like this American Pot Smoking Drunk Driving hero, and you will go far.

Posted at 9:13PM on Feb 16th 2009 by TC

63. THAT IS HOLLYWOOD JUSTICE, EIGHT OTHERS GET ARRESTED, BUT THE GOLD MEDAL WINNER GOES ON. What Crap!

Posted at 9:09PM on Feb 16th 2009 by Bob

64. #13 YOU SAID IT!

Posted at 9:35PM on Feb 16th 2009 by mightymike

65. It's amazing that people are seriously offended by the fact that he smoked bud. LET HIM! it hasn't seemed to effect his goals! geez!! Poor guy!

Posted at 9:38PM on Feb 16th 2009 by Tired of stupidity

66. So, Michael Phelps apologized. Too bad he came to that point to begin with.

Posted at 10:01PM on Feb 16th 2009 by Butterfly

67. Right on Mike, sorry for your troubles. Chill now.

Posted at 12:34AM on Feb 17th 2009 by snoop dogg

68. What a joke. They arrest the other people connected to the situation, but not him because he swam in a pool on T.V. This country is so corrupted.

Posted at 10:45PM on Feb 16th 2009 by Kate

69. this whole deal was stupid....i don't understand why it was that big of a deal really????? so the guy had a hit from a bong, who cares, i am sure everyone has tried something like that once in there life, they just didn't have assholes that took pictures and sold them to media for money, thas just wrong. micheal if i were you find the bastard that took the picture, you need to put him n a head lock and give him a serious noogie.

Posted at 12:29AM on Feb 17th 2009 by canuk1111

70. I am so tired of hearing about pot cases. Legalize it, tax it and get on with it. Who cares if he is smoking pot. For God's sake, with all the problems we have in this country, cannabis is the least of our worries. Balance our budget and tax it. Stop the police waisting our time and theirs, free up our prisons for violent offenders, and get more jobs to people by growing, harvesting, transporting, taxing, and accounting for what is growen. GIVE US ALL A BREAK AND GIVE IT A REST!!!

Posted at 12:43AM on Feb 17th 2009 by Susan

71. Unreal those that complain about the illegality of POT??? Darn shame too, that people have to turn to DRUGS tin attempts to exit the real world, even if temporarily!! Here we are a nation in TROUBLE, and you truly believe that drugs like marijuana aren't even partly to blame?? IT IS SMOKE?? Do you really think you have a convincing arguement in the legalization of POT by saying INHALING SMOKE IS "GOOD" FOR YOU?? That it's "not a big deal"?? Look at the healthcare blunder. CANCER HAPPENS... not always by smoking, but it's a known FACT that smoking CAN and DOES lead to CANCER!! Pot DOES NOT cure ANYTHING. Simple point is YOU DO IT TO GET HIGH!!! It's a BUZZ.. it's a euphoria... AN ADDICTION! All the healthcare costs involved in this ADDICTION .. including my OWN tax dollars toward LUNG MACHINES to aid people in breathing because of a nasty addiction to smoking!! Telling anyone to smoke anything, is comparable to asking them to stand in the middle of a forest fire?? How "healthy" would THAT be??

All the absolute PRESSURE put on smokers to quit.. taxes, segragated areas, COSTS, and you truly think that our nation as a whole would WANT TO LEGALIZE pot????! Guess they don't call the stuff DOPE for nothing! Another term used.. "getting wasted"?? Yea.. waste of time, waste of energy, waste of money, waste of brain cells, and a complete waste of any common sense.

Michael Phelps getting away with this, is much like Obama and his cabinet appointees getting away with NOT PAYING their TAXES!!! It's privileged WEALTH! I by no means "hate" Phelps.. I don't hate ANYONE... but he definately loses some points in the "respect" department. Anyone that does DRUGS FOR PLEASURE, goes down on my respectfulness scale.. because if you can't respect yourself,.. why should those around you respect you anymore than you do yourself.

Posted at 1:08AM on Feb 17th 2009 by eyes are rolling

72.
Question I have is, Did he turn on the 8 others so that he would see no charges?

Posted at 1:42AM on Feb 17th 2009 by Seven

73. To think of our fore-fathers and what they would think. Thomas Jefferson would be so upset by this incident. Jefferson who grew the strange herb that the Native Americans used as medicine, and for recreation. Jefferson who would bring the dried leaves and bud to Franklin who had severe gout. Jefferson and Franklin would sit around the Congress in Phillie, smoking pot together during the congressional debates. Maybe our congress would work better if they smoked pot during their debates?

Posted at 3:07AM on Feb 17th 2009 by honest

74. Who gives a shi*t, let the man smoke bongs, IT NOT HURTING U ... IS IT?

Posted at 3:38AM on Feb 17th 2009 by Snappy

75. to all the morons who said he should have been prosecuted, uh, a picture doesn't constitute evidence. Look it up. Pictures are dismissed on a consistent basis by most judges as evidence, as they can be easily doctored, tampered, etc.

Did he smoke pot? Hell yes. Can you prosecute off of a picture? NO WAY. The other men that are mentioned on these posts, were either in actual possession of the drug when apprehended.

If a sheriff was stupid enough to try and prosecute off of a photograph, my response would the same as Phelps:

KISS MY ASS BARNEY FIFE! NOW ACT LIKE A REAL COP AND INVESTIGATE SOME REAL CRIMES JACKASS!

Posted at 4:38AM on Feb 17th 2009 by Chris