Was it really that bad?

Posted by chrystibella on February 8, 2009

I was disappointed that someone took a photo and sold it to the tabloids so that Michale Phelps was exploited as a bad bad boy. Well in this day and age many young twenty-somethings are smoking a little pot now and then to blow off steam. It’s not like they are doing hard drugs and from my experience and from what I know, pot is not a portal into hard drugs.  That’s like saying that drinking a beer will lead to alcoholism.  It may be true for a few but not true for the majority of people who have a beer or two or a glass or two or even a bottle of wine on the weekend.  There are many successful and educated, smart intelligent people who smoke marijuana.  If it were legalized and taxed, it would bring in needed income to our economy.   It’s not like he was caught shooting heroin or smoking crack.  I’m not saying it is a good thing to smoke pot but it is a fact of life that people do it.  Kelloggs didn’t have an issue that MP got a DUI which is much much worse.

I don’t think it should have been such a big deal and I saw no reason to put Michael Phelp’s head on the chopping block over it.  He still went on to win all those gold medals for his country.

As for Kelloggs products, they really aren’t the healthiest foods but they are promoted to children (who love pop-tarts and sugary cereals) so I can see why they would pull out of the ad contract.

This skit from SNL is the BEST!   I couldn’t have said this better myself!