This Whole Michael Phelps Bong Bullshit Is Killing Me

Sometimes, I love the United States, and sometimes I refuse to admit that I spent most of my life in a country that's got its head stuck up its own ass.

Poor fucking Michael Phelps, man. The man represents the US, which thanks to Dubyah has the reputation of Paris Hilton among its well cultured international counterparts, and goes on to win EIGHT gold medals. The man overcame ADHD, the man is talented, the man is strong, the man is definitely someone that all those fat ass kids in the US should really be looking up to instead of stuffing their fat faces full of Big Macs and Cheetos. But what does Kelloggs do? They decide to drop him. Why? Because a photo of him smoking a bong surfaced on the interwebs, and of course, he had to go an admit it was actually him and he apologized for his terrible behavior. I saw the photo, and I can't say that I could definitely determine it was Phelps, and like Birv said, it looked like every dude I went to college with - it could be any one of them.

Anyway, I just find it sad that something so trivial, so meaningless, so COMMON as smoking some fucking herb lands people in so much shit. I wonder if those execs at Kelloggs never ever smoked weed when they were young like Phelps. Because if they said "No" I would laugh in their faces until I turned blue.

In any case, I don't think something like smoking weed should ruin a career, a contract, a job possibility, or whatever. What about booze?? I've never met anyone that had smoked themselves to death, or gotten in an accident because they smoked and drove, or gone apeshit on someone and hurt them because they smoked. At worst, I've seen people pee their pants laughing and pass out. I've only known one person who puked from smoking.

I'm tired of living in a country and being subject to a society that is obviously stuck in the 1950s on the surface, but all hell is breaking loose internally. It's called a double standard, people and I'm goddamned tired of it.

So let's really become a progressive country and finally legalize it! Guess what - within a year, I guarantee that the national debt would be obsolete. The government would regulate it, and tax it, like they do in The Netherlands, we would be swimming in money and people would be a whole hell of a lot happier...AND people would be more apt to mind their own goddamned business.