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MICHAEL PHELPS - Bohater roku 2009

Media trabia glosno o najlepszym plywaku wszechczasow. Jest to niezreczna sytuacja dla fanatykow prohibicjonizmu. Ot, najlepszy sportowiec swiata, wzor dla mlodziezy, pali marihuane. I to publicznie, bo dal sie sfotografowac dla prasy. Ryje opadly propagandzistom rzadowo-policyjnym, bo na psy poszly miliardy dolarow wydane przez panstwo na demonizowanie trawki. O dupe obic cala czarna propagande panstwowo-policyjna, ze trawka jest beee, ze jest zla. Jak moze byc zla, kiedy sportowcy smolac ja osiagaja najlepsze wyniki sportowe? Z mlodziezy glupka chcecie robic ciemniaki, czy co?

Wczesniej kanadyjski sportowiec Ross Rebagliati udowodnil, ze na marihuanowym haju swietnie sie zjezdza na desce snieznej, zdobywajac mistrzostwo swiata na Olimpiadzie zimowej w 1998 roku.
Panowie ciemniaki prohibicjonizmu, zasrani wojownicy wojny z narkotykami, ociemnianie i otepianie mlodziezy, ze marihuana jest zla i niezdrowa, to argresja na inteligencje mlodych ludzi. Klamstwo ma krotkie nozki, za to mlodziez ma dluga pamiec i kiedys wam to wytknie.

Michael Phelps Marijuana Bong Smoking Photo: "I'm Sorry"

http://www.popcrunch.com/michael-phelps-smoking-marijuana-photo-im-sorry/

Phelps pot pic apology
Olympic great Michael Phelps has acknowledged "regrettable" behaviour and "bad judgment" after a photo in a British newspaper showed him smoking marijuana.
In a statement released to The Associated Press, the swimmer, who won a record eight gold medals at the Beijing Games, conceded the authenticity of the exclusive photo published yesterday by the tabloid News of the World.
Phelps said: I engaged in behaviour which was regrettable and demonstrated bad judgment. I'm 23 years old and despite the successes I've had in the pool, I acted in a youthful and inappropriate way, not in a manner people have come to expect from me. For this, I am sorry. I promise my fans and the public it will not happen again."
-THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (24 HOURS, Monday, February 2, 2009).

New water sport could sink Phelps
Image-conscious sponsors will take note of marijuana photo
BY DAVID EBNER
He didn't actually admit to smoking pot, but Michael Phelps's concession that he "engaged in behaviour which was regrettable and demonstrated bad judgment" after a picture of him taking a haul off a bong was published on the weekend could sink his reputation and torch millions in sponsorship dollars.
It won't, however, hurt him in the pool, as the man with the most Olympic gold medals ever - 14 - looks to add to his collection in 2012 in London. Marijuana is a banned substance under World Anti-Doping Agency rules, but only during competition, when the drug could provide a calming benefit. Outside of events, marijuana is not out of bounds.
But Mr. Phelps's sponsors, including wholesome names such as cereal maker Kellogg Co., likely won't be impressed. Nor will sponsors be forgiving, though Mr. Phelps did receive support yesterday from sports overseers such as USA Swimming, which said, "We realize that none among us is perfect."

Kellogg, which signed up the swimming star after his record eight gold medals last summer in Beijing, didn't respond to requests for comment. Kellogg put Mr. Phelps - who makes upwards of $10-million annually from corporate backers - beside Tony the Tiger on boxes of Corn Flakes.

The likes of Vista and long-time sponsor Speedo also were silent. "Yes, half the country has smoked dope, but if you're going to be the poster boy for good, clean living, you can't get nailed like this," said Lindsay Meredith, a marketing professor at Simon Fraser University.

"The big damage is the perception. He's the sort of person who is marketed in the mom-and-apple-pie category to the Disney crowd."

The picture, taken in November at a party at the University of South Carolina, where he reportedly also pounded beers and shots of liquor, was published by the tabloid News of the World in Britain yesterday. It instantly was everywhere, all over the Internet and on newscasts around the world.

"He looked just as natural with a bong in his hands as he does swimming in the pool," said one unnamed source in the story in News of the World. "He was the gold-medal winner of bong hits."

Mr. Phelps has already managed to escape controversy once. After winning his first six gold medals in Athens in 2004, the then-19-year-old was busted for drunk driving. He quickly pleaded guilty, was given the mild reprimand of a $250 fine, 18 months of probation and some speaking engagements about the ills of driving under the influence to high-school students. "I let a lot of people in the country down," he told NBC television at the time.

This incident could be more severe, even if someone as esteemed as U.S. President Barack Obama has said he smoked pot (and snorted cocaine when he could afford it) when he was in high school.

Octagon, the large sports and entertainment agency that represents Mr. Phelps, desperately tried to stop the News of the World from publishing the photo, the tabloid reported. Once the photo appeared, Mr. Phelps issued a statement of contrition.

"I'm 23 years old, and despite the successes I have had in the pool, I acted in a youthful and inappropriate way, not in a manner tha people have come to expect from me," he said in a statement e-mailed by Octagon. "For this, I am sorry. I promise my fans and the public it will not happen again."

Richard Pound, the Montrealer who until recently ran the World Anti-Doping Agency, has a reputation for a hard-line stand on drugs, but in an interview yesterday said marijuana is a "marginal" concern compared with substances such as steroids.

"I'm not somebody who insists on perfect behaviour on the part of athletes," said Mr. Pound, a swimmer in the 1960 Olympics. "The doping we're worried about is enhancement of performance. Taking a puff from a water pipe with some marijuana in it is well short of the electric chair, as far as I'm concerned."

The U.S. Olympic Committee said it was "disappointed" and that Mr. Phelps "regrettably" failed as a positive role model for others, particularly young people. USA Swimming said, "We hope that Michael can learn from this incident."

Kevin Wamsley, an Olympic historian at the University of Western Ontario, said the risk Mr. Phelps faces is falling short of an almost-impossible ideal - the pressure to be perfect - one he and his management team created in an effort to cash in on all those gold medals.

"It's our whole tradition of making role models out of athletes," Prof. Wamsley said. "If an athlete embraces that, and makes that part of marketing campaigns, you'd have to be extremely careful about your social behaviour."

Canadian snowboarder Ross Rebagliati was briefly stripped of a gold medal - the first ever won in snowboarding - in 1998 by the International Olympic Committee after testing positive for marijuana at the Nagano Winter Olympics, but the medal was reinstated on appeal because the drug wasn't officially banned by the IOC and the body overseeing snowboarding, a situation that was thereafter quickly amended (THE GLOBE AND MAIL, Monday, Feb. 2, 2009).

Obama's brother faces drug rap in Kenya

TOM ODULA

The Associated Press

NAIROBI, Kenya - The half-brother of President Barack Obama was arrested for alleged possession of marijuana yesterday near his home in a Nairobi shanty-town, police said.

George Obama, who is in his 20s and barely knows the president, had one joint of marijuana on him, said Joshua Omokulongolo, the police chief in the area. "He is not a drug peddler," Omokulongolo said. "But it's illegal, it's a banned substance."

George Obama has a court appearance scheduled for tomorrow morning. He and the president have the same father, who died in a car crash in 1982. The White House declined comment yesterday on the incident (SUNDAY SUN, February 1, 2009).

Canadian teens smoke most pot

STUDY Kids are smoking less pot and going out less often with friends at night, a study in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine of 15-year-olds in 30 countries found. The double declines occurred in the U.S., Canada and European countries from 2002 to 2006. Marijuana use increased only in Estonia, Lithuania and Malta, and among Russian girls.

While rates varied widely among countries, prevalence was highest in Canada, where 30 per cent of boys and almost 28 per cent of girls used marijuana in 2006.

The U.S. ranked third in 2006, with 24 per cent of boys and girls each reporting marijuana use.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (METRO, Tuesday, February 3, 2009).

05:26 Hrs. Lektura tronowa. "Wprost" (www.wprost.pl).

Zyjemy w bezmyslnym spoleczenstwie, w ktorym udalo sie podwazyc podstawy funkcjonujacej demokracji. Ludzie zyja odseparowani od siebie nawzajem, tona w dlugach - a to idealny mechanizm kontroli - NOAM CHOMSKY ("Diabel liberalizmu. Rozmowa z Noamem Chomskym, amerykanskim lingwista, filozofem, dzialaczem politycznym, profesorem Massachusetts Institute of Technology", WPROST, 21-28 grudnia 2008).

06:42 Hrs. Ja do ciebie bede szla - unosi sie w Polskim Radiu Toronto na fali 1320 AM. 86 krokow do samochodu. Na dworze pada gesty snieg. Samochod pokryty sniegiem. Szybki szczotki ruch i znikl puch. Minus 7-stopniowo. Odczuwalne -11C. Ulice biale, nieoczyszczone, slisko. W dzienniku: 7 polskich zolnierzy zasiadlo na lawie oskarzonych za ostrzelanie afganskiej wioski. Miemcy beda lobbingowac Amerykanow aby nie instalowali tarczy przeciwrakietowej w Polsce i Czechach. Boja sie Rosji. Ukrainska opozycja straszy protestami. Pierwszy iranski satelita o nazwie "Nadzieja" juz w kosmosie.

ESSO, Canadian Tire, Petro-Canada biora za litr paliwa $0.80.3

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