Big Bong Theory By Sally Jenkins
CN Source: Washington Post February 03, 2009 Washington, DC
So Michael Phelps dove headfirst into the bong water. Is anyone really surprised, after all those laps? There has always been something submerged and escapist about the world's greatest swimmer. When presented with a chamber containing a hazy translucent liquid, he did what's become second nature to him. He buried his face in it. I'm just sorry I wasn't at that University of South Carolina house party to witness Squid Boy's binge firsthand -- not that I would ever make such a staggering misstep myself. continued...

dove headfirst into the bong water

to witness Squid Boy's binge

"...the primary reason to outlaw marijuana
is its effect on the degenerate races."
- Harry J. Anslinger - America's 1st Drug Czar (FDR - JFK)

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Does Embattled Phelps Deserve a Break?
CN Source: Associated Press February 03, 2009 New York
A young man appears to be smoking pot at a party. Big deal, right? Our new president has freely admitted doing just that in his youth - inhaling, too - and it didn't derail him one bit. So should we expect more of Michael Phelps? It depends on what we want and expect our youthful role models to be: perfect, or flawed like the rest of us. And so as the Olympic swimmer's many corporate sponsors were wrestling with their options Monday, a day after an embarrassing photo emerged of the decorated athlete appearing to inhale from a bong, some were looking at the bright side. continued...

Deserve a Break? Embattled? 8 Gold Medals...

Olympic swimmer's many corporate sponsors...

"Casual drug users should be taken out and shot."
- Daryl DARE Gates - Former LAPD Chief

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Michael Phelps, Hypocrisy, & American Drug Policy By John V. Santore
CN Source: Huffington Post February 02, 2009 USA
Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps was recently photographed using a marijuana bong at the home of a friend. The photographic evidence made a denial impossible, which led to release of the following statement today... full story

"In a republic like ours, people often think that the proper response to an unjust law is to try to use the political process to change the law, but to obey and respect the law until it is changed. But if the law is itself clearly unjust, and the lawmaking process is not designed to quickly obliterate such unjust laws, then the law deserves no respect — break the law." - Henry David Thoreau

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"I engaged in behavior 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."

"Republic . . .
it means people can live free, talk free, go or come,
buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose."
-- John Wayne

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Facebook: Michael Phelps's Notes

Michael you owe NO ONE an apology.
Especially the Hypocrites and Apologists.
You did not make a mistake. You toked a bong.
The entire Cannabis prohibition is the result of a lie.
The legal alternatives are far more de-habilitating.
Have the courage of your convictions.

The only time you owe anything is in the pool.
Off the clock means you are an American
with a Constitution guaranteeing your Free Speech.
Too bad Wall Street and Madison Avenue run on Fascism.

Many wise people have used cannabis for many reasons over the centuries. It reduces stress, unlike booze that inebriates into a comatose state. The smoke is an expectorant that helps open small airways and keep dangerous SMOG and pollutants from causing lung damage and cancer.

When a government outlaws research and hides past studies from the people, and even the schools. When they give away the Treasury and make wars behind our backs. Especially war on some citizens over certain drugs and plants. It is high time the people stood up and just said no.

Appeasing liars perpetuating cannabis prohibition is not good for the 3000 kids sodomized in juvi prison. Or the thousands of kids getting chemically poisoned from pesticides sprayed in drug war zones and farm lands. Not used on Hemp that is lumped into the mix. Non psychoactive narcotic burlap, blue jeans and a nutritional source of Omega 3 in its seed.

Now making up 98% of the nations "marijuana" eradication program. Protecting the kids with more fraud? Saving them from stronger fiber than trees produce? Can't tell a jury your doctor said try it cause the judge says it ain't medicine. In spite of the 300 joints Uncle Sam rolls each month for the remaining IND patients.

NO-ConPromise!
Be well,
DdC

Celebrity Stoners: American High Society

NFL Buzzkill

"Insanity [is] ...
Continuing to do the same things and expecting different results."
-- Albert Einstein

We are calling for a World Wide BOYCOTT,
of any and all companies dropping ads
on the grounds of enough hypocrisy!

Should Michael Phelps apologize for being photographed with a bong?
Craig Ferguson thinks not.

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CBS Vid The Late Late Show - 02/02/09
The Whole Michael Phelps Controversy

What Michael Phelps Should Have Said
Radley Balko | February 2, 2009

Smoking pot shouldn't be a crime.
Or the public's business.

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. continued...

"In any civilized society,
it is every citizen's responsibility to obey just laws.
But at the same time,
it is every citizen's responsibility to disobey unjust laws."
-- Martin Luther King Jr.

SC sheriff investigating Phelps' pot pipe photo,
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP)

considers marijuana charge

Olympic superstar Michael Phelps could face criminal charges as part of the fallout from a photo that surfaced showing the swimmer smoking from a marijuana pipe at a University of South Carolina house party.

A spokesman for Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott, who is known for his tough stance on drugs, said Tuesday the department was investigating.

"Our narcotics division is reviewing the information that we have, and they're investigating what charges, if any, will be filed," said Lt. Chris Cowan, a spokesman for agency. continued...

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Michael Phelps, Hypocrisy, & American Drug Policy (thread)

Hypocrites and their Apologists... tsk tsk

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No Extradition for the BC3!

Jill Porter: Phelps a toke-ing of pot legalizers' affection | Philadelphia Daily News | 02/04/2009

Anyone know Phelps' address? I want to write to him.

Kellogg to drop Phelps over pot smoking photo
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Cereal and snack maker Kellogg Co. said it won't renew its sponsorhip contract with Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps because of a photo that showed him inhaling from a marijuana pipe.

The Battle Creek, Mich.-based company said Thursday that Phelps's behavior — caught on camera and published Sunday in a British tabloid — is "not consistent with the image of Kellogg."

The company put Phelps on boxes of its Frosted Flakes and Corn Flakes.

Phelps has kept the backing of many sponsors since the photo surfaced from a November house party at the University of South Carolina.

Phelps's agent was not immediately available to comment.

Kellogg says its contract with Phelps expires at the end of the month.

Top travel destinations for Michael Phelps and other marijuana smokers
Posted by The Marijuana News Staff on February 5th, 2009

Divide and Maintain Dysfunction.

Michael Phelps - the good stuff
DWR: Pete Guither 2.4.9

Yes, there have been a lot of ridiculous columns by entertainment and sports journalists about how Michale Phelps "shames us all" for his horrible action in taking a bong hit, but it's been entertaining to me to read the comments to most of these articles and see the journalists being torn a new one by the public.

Some of them have been quite astonished that their readers weren't supporting them in their ritual condemnation of Phelps. Hilarious.

Here's a couple of delightful instances where the writers got it right.

Andrew Stuttaford at National Review Online's the corner

Look, I don't blame Michael Phelps for apologizing. He has a living to earn, so he did what he had to do.

In the meantime, I merely note that this broken wreck of a man's failure to win any more than a pathetic fourteen Olympic gold medals (so far) is a terrifying warning of the horrific damage that cannabis can do to someone's health--and a powerful reminder of just how sensible the drug laws really are.

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And then, a clear must-read is Kathleen Parker in today's Washington Post: Phelps Takes a Hit

She's on fire:

And the law is the law. Therein lies the problem.

Our marijuana laws have been ludicrous for as long as we've been alive. Almost half of us (42 percent) have tried marijuana at least once, according to a report published last year in PLoS Medicine, a journal of the Public Library of Science.

The U.S., in fact, boasts the highest percentage of pot smokers among 17 nations surveyed, including The Netherlands, where cannabis clouds waft from coffeehouse windows. [...]

Other better-known former tokers include our current president and a couple of previous ones, as well as a Supreme Court justice, to name just a few. A complete list would require the slaughter of several mature forests. [...]

One recent ad produced by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy says: "Hey, not trying to be your mom, but there aren't many jobs out there for potheads." Whoa, dude, except maybe, like, president of the United States.

Once a kid realizes that pot doesn't make him insane -- or likely to become a burrito taster, as the ad further asserts -- he might figure other drug information is equally false.

Thanks, Michael, for jump-starting a national conversation by taking a hit on a bong.

If it were only that easy for the rest of us...

Update: Joe Klein at Time Magazine jumps in: Legalize it, already

Kathleen Parker has the precisely correct reaction to the Michael Phelps flap. Marijuana should be legalized and taxed. It's costing the society way too much in terms of law enforcement and hypocrisy.

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Monday, February 2, 2009
Updates: Cheye Calvo and Michael Phelps

Olympic Champion Michael Phelps Caught With Marijuana Pipe
Phelps, who vaulted to international stardom during the 2008 Summer Olympics by winning a record eight gold medals in swimming, has been caught in a very compromising position, according to a report by the British paper News of the World. full story

Marijuana Wars In The Workplace
US OR: Edu: Fox, Lauren Oregon Daily Emerald 03 Feb 2009

Richland Sheriff Could Charge Phelps
US SC: Beam, Adam The State 03 Feb 2009

The United States Is Mired In Adolescent Behaviour
CN BC: Editorial: Vancouver Sun 04 Feb 2009

Phelps, Pot And Consequences
Editorial: Dallas Morning News 03 Feb 2009

So, Phelps Is Human
CN ON: Editorial: Ottawa Citizen 04 Feb 2009

Michael Phelps' Public Stoning
US CO: Harsanyi, David Denver Post 03 Feb 2009

DEA Chief: Winners Occasionally Use Drugs
September 9, 1997 | Issue 32•06 WASHINGTON, DC
In a surprise announcement with wide-ranging implications for U.S. narcotics policy, Drug Enforcement Administration director Thomas Constantine acknowledged Monday that some winners "may occasionally" use drugs.

Phelps unites pot smokers By David Edwards
CNN’s Jeanne Moos reported that the photo of Michael Phelps smoking a bong has united pot smokers on the internet.
This video is from CNN’s American Morning, broadcast Feb. 4, 2009.

Former Olympian defends Phelps for bong use

Smoking pot with Michael Phelps?

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72% want Obama to end DEA raids
DWR: Pete Guither 2.4.9

According to a California NORML press release:

While the DEA continues to stage medical marijuana raids in California, nearly three-quarters of voters think President Obama should honor his campaign pledge to end the raids, according to a poll of 1,053 likely voters by Zogby International.

In a question sponsored by NORML, voters were asked: During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama said he would stop federal raids against medical marijuana providers in the 13 states where medical marijuana has become legal. Should President Obama keep his word to end such raids?

Response:

* Yes - 72%
* No - 21%
* Not sure - 7%.

Yes votes outnumbered No by over 2 to 1 in all geographic, political, and demographic groups. The poll, conducted Jan 29-31, had a margin error of +/-3.1%.

The question is, of course, designed to encourage a "Yes" vote (that's not unusual in commissioned polls), but it's still an impressive number and very useful to make a good point.

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Yeah, I wish he didn't apologize. I met this kid at the beach that said he cleaned the house of Charles Schwab. (Well, his house in Hawai'i.) He said that his son smokes a shitload of weed, and "Chuck" himself does.

I wish these rich fuckers would come out of the cannabis closet. They can afford it. I wish I could. I would jeopardize my career if I did. So, I understand why he apologized. But, man... You know, I am just too angry to talk about this right now. Plus I am dry except for a little bowl of kief. Fuck, man.

Wishing he didn't break the law, break his contracts, and step on parents' trust world wide...is folly. Do we wish cannabis was legal...? Of course. But as the laws stand now...he played the game and has gotten slapped-down as a result.

He signed-off on the personal morality clauses in his contracts, cannabis possesion and use is still against federal law, and since the games ended, he's acted like an adolescent. Nothing like bringing an exotic dancer (escort) home to have dinner with the family, then getting caught on camera effectively operating a bong.

With the Kellogs contract, they didn't drop him, they're just not resigning him. In fact, isn't this progress? A few years ago he would have been dropped effective immediatelly, with a smear campaign against him designed to highten the companies image as an all-american institution that will not condone this 'aberrant' behavior.

At least he's only gotten a 3 month suspension from USA Swimming.

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and so know the great corporate USA is gonna trample all over his rights, they better be careful that young man is very bright and might just sue the pants off of them !! I hope he does, they had better watch their step. all federal laws placing cannabis on the substance abuse act have been Illegally placed there by the dea. It clearly states for a plant or substance to placed there it has to have "of no medicinal value" I think 75% of the usa population know it has a "medicinal value" there by it is Illegally placed on the substance abuse act! so any acts against the people using cannabis by the dea are crimes !! I think Barrack Obama knows this and will fix it!

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the hell with it i think stoners should boycott kelloggs id bet they would feel that in there pockets then probly sign cheech and chong

oh and IF he said that it would have been sweet i love open defiance like when L.A. said they werent sending money to sacramento cause the legislature is not doing thier jobs

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I have to 100% agree with Rusty here.......if your word (or signing a contract and taking the money) just doesn't matter anymore to anyone, then we are totally screwed. I'd sure like to think that if I pay someone that they are actually doing what they PROMISED and is being paid for.......pot or otherwise.

PS....Doesn't he have a DUI as well from 2004? Ooopsie.....who'd like to defend THAT one?

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And for the record, I couldn't care less if Phelps smokes pot......more power to him with all his medals and being able to toke at the same time. It's his WORD that I have questions about (and not good ones.)

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You know, I just read another post from Lola somewhere on cdot and I thought her answer was bang on. Then, upon further thinking I realized, that I too, am a hypocroite and a liar in that yes, I lie to certain people about my marijuana use and yes, I would lie to a potential employer about my marijuana use. So I'm even LESS than I said Michael Phelps was because I judged hiim harshly for doing the exact same thing I would do. That is some SERIOUS hypocrasy on my part.

THEREFORE.....while I completely understand Rusty's point and believe in the integrity of it, I must expose mysyelf as the true me and reanswer the question the way I feel now.

1. He needs to be MUCH more private about what he does. (And in his future.....this may include drug testing for him which is what you get for getting caught )

but 2. No I certainly DONT expect him to stand up and say "Fuck you all, I smoke pot and am proud of it!" considering it's federally illegal. I wouldn't do it myself, I certainly don't expect him to.

3. Make sure your private life stays private and this include camera phone photos from "friends" especially if your employer has providen it. And in talking about private that means not caught for DUI eitherl.......) keep it PRIVATE..........

So, sorry I find myself doing a complete 180 and just learning something (rather unpleasant) about myself. Bummer. But there it is.

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south carolina is talking about CHARGING HIM! FOR A PICTURE!!!

UNBELIEVABLE!!

The best was TMZ's interview with Tommy Chong.

"I think he's done it before . . . He did everything right. He's got good lung capacity. The only thing is, you know, I'd hate to be the guy behind him, next, because then you'd have to re-fill the pipe . . . Can you imagine the lung capacity that guy has got? He could suck down a kilo."

That's kinda harsh on yourself, Weedy...You are not in the same boat as Michael. He was being paid for his image, and he chose to let his guard down, and get caught.
You don't spend your workday going around to jr. high and high schools pimping good study habits, drive and determination, hard work and team ethics. (and Frosted Flakes) He does.

In signing a legal and binding contract he knew the game was to best represent his bosses, and to stay apart from any illegal or image-tarnishing activities.
He wasn't at home, kicking-back, and lighting a few bonghits when he was photographed. He was out in public, at a college party, and subject to all the scrutiny TMZ types can muster. Some athlete's contracts even restrict players from hazardous activities on their off-time. Like sky-diving, riding motorcycles, sleeping with Paris Hilton or debating politics with Rusty Trichome...

He knew his paycheck would be based on his performance. He knew exactly what was expected of him, as it's all laid-out in the contract. Damn near all of the pro sports have a morality clause, to protect the institutions integrity and image. If you can't represent...fuck it. You're fired, sold, traded...

He screwed-up, (broke the law and his contracts) and no ammount of petty justification makes it Kellogs fault that he is now labeled as an out-of-the-closet pothead. If you can't follow the moral guidelines in the contract you signed, don't sign the contract. I mean really...what else was he hired for? His acting skills? His handsomely-chiseled face? His well-proportioned body...? His perfect smile?
No...he's a gawky, goofy looking swimmer that can't act. He was hired for his image, which now, does not represent the morals of at least one company signing his paycheck. (as is their right)

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Well if he was at a public party and was toking away happily then that's just DUMB!

Like you say, Rusty, in the privacy of your own home....or with people you trust.....is the way to go here.......not where you can be photographed or caught doing things you told your employer you wouldn't do.

And somebody tell this guy to vape or something with those lungs. Talk about jealous!!!

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I'm just glad he understands that personal freedoms are a responsibility, not a blanket "right" that allows one to hide behind the claims of the corporate world trampling the rights of a contracted employee, after that contractee broke the contract. (he has no grounds for a civil case)

All in all he's more mature than I gave him credit for. My god, I think he's becoming a man.

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tons of boycott kelloggs groups on facebook: jhelion • 2/6/09

Boycott Kellogg's for Dumping Michael Phelps
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Support Decriminalization/Legalization; Boycott Kellogg's

I've been not buying Kloggog for years because its cardboard. Doing a full list later, but if I was Michael Phelps I'd drop Kellogg for the reputation they have. From over growing cereal they removed the tall grass to plow the fields, then the Dust Bowl resulted. Quackery sticking electrodes on women and daily enemas and abstinence for wellness. Anthony Hopkins did the movie The road to Wellville – The Kellogg story. They're worried about their image?

Have some cold cereal
Saturday, February 7, 2009

Are you familiar with Malt-O-Meal cold cereals? They come in bags, usually at the end of the cereal aisle, they're easy to reseal, have less packaging (good for the environment), usually win in nutritional comparisons, and are less expensive than the name brands they mimic (and they mimic them quite well).

So if you like:

* Kellogg's Apple Jacks, try some Apple Zings
* Kellogg's Rice Krispies, try some Crispy Rice
* Kellogg's Frosted Flakes, try some Frosted Flakes
* Kellogg's Raisin Bran, try some Raisin Bran
* Kellogg's Frosted Mini-Wheats, try some Frosted Mini-Spooners
* Kellogg's Froot Loops, try some Tootie Fruities (That's right, Cliff, you don't really have to give up your beloved Froot Loops.)

That is, just in case you have some reason to no longer buy Kellogg's products.

BOYCOTT! Products by Brand

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February 6th, 2009
Kellogg drops Phelps after photos
Posted by: Paul Thomasch

The world's largest cereal maker said on Thursday it would not extend a contract with Phelps, who charmed audiences in Beijing last year with a record-breaking, eight-gold medal haul, saying the photo of the swimmer was inconsistent with its public image.

'Masturbation results in general debility,
unnatural pale eyes and forehead acne'
John Harvey Kellogg (1852–1943)

The road to Wellville – The Kellogg story
Phrenology and palmistry, electrotherapy, mechanotherapy, hydrotherapy, and a host of other therapies.

The Dust Bowl was an ecological and human disaster caused by misuse of land and years of sustained drought.
(sponsored by K-E double L Oh double good)

Kellogg realized the huge profit potential of serving the public nutritionally empty food on a mass scale. The birth of the process food industry.

The Kellogg brand in America and the Sanitarium brand in Australia,
are wholly owned by the Seventh Day Adventist Church, which affords them tax benefits as the companies direct their profits back into the church.

Would Michael Phelps's compromising picture mean less sponsorships?

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Kellogg's's Friends
No surprise to find that a big user of aspertame is a Bonesman business. They don't mind dying for profits.

Bayer CropScience
Following worldwide bans and recalls for toxic LL601 rice, concerns have been especially high among US rice growers, who sell big portions of their harvests to Kellogg.

Connection between Kellogg's and Salmonella
January 17, 2009 - WASHINGTON – First it was bulk peanut butter shipped to nursing homes and institutional cafeterias. Now the salmonella case has touched the Kellogg Co., which has recalled 16 products as federal officials confirm contamination at a Georgia facility that sent peanut products to 85 food companies.

ALERT: OCA LAUNCHES KELLOGG'S BOYCOTT GENETICALLY ENGINEERED SUGAR TO HIT SUPERMARKET SHELVES THIS YEAR

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Revised Optional Test Bank for United States History
Goal 9: Prosperity and Depression (1919-1939) 9.03 33

Q.What was the result of the “noble experiment” of prohibition?

A. It encouraged organized crime and gang warfare.

Phelps has other deals worth millions of dollars with brands including Speedo swimwear, Omega watches, Visa Inc, Subway sandwiches and Hilton Hotels. Phelps's agency, Octagon, said earlier this week that it had been in touch with his sponsors and that none had indicated any intention of backing out of their deals.

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The road to Wellville – The Kellogg story
By Dennis B Worthen, PhD,
Lloyd Library and Museum Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Suggestions on the mode of preserving health and attaining old age:
Perfect nutrition is essential. The process of digestion must be completely and perfectly accomplished. Great attention must be paid to the habitual condition of the organs of excretion – particularly the bowels and the skin.

Kellogg, also, managed to achieved notoriety for his views on sex, autointoxication which he believe was the source of most illness, his use of a daily enema regimine at the Sans, and for his interests in eugenics.

The Kellogg brand in America and the Sanitarium brand in Australia,
are wholly owned by the Seventh Day Adventist Church, which affords them tax benefits as the companies direct their profits back into the church.

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Healthful habits and remedies from a century ago

In the late 1800s, there was great interest in the general subjects of health and wellness, which were then known as ‘hygiene.’ Health fads of the time included phrenology and palmistry. Practitioners of those pseudo-sciences claimed that they could understand a patient’s disease and personality by studying the shape of his or her head or the length of the heart line. It was the period during which cures and restorative powers were attributed to electrotherapy, mechanotherapy, hydrotherapy, and a host of other therapies. Food was seen as both the cause and the cure for the ills of the day

Re: Cold Breakfast Cereal
Will Kellogg and Post, and probably was responsible for the birth of the process food industry. Capitalists were starting to realize the huge profit potential of serving the public nutritionally empty food on a mass scale.

Watch: Old Commercial for Wheaties Cereal

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Small Farms, Externalities, and the Dust Bowl of the 1930s
Small farmers cultivated more of their land and were less likely to invest in erosion control than were larger farmers. Soil Conservation Districts, established by government after 1937, helped coordinate erosion control.

The Dust Bowl was an ecological and human disaster caused by misuse of land and years of sustained drought.

The Great Plains Dust Bowl

Surviving the Dust Bowl

Scientists Discover Why 1930s Dust Bowl Was So Bad
FOXNEWS.COM: "What is new and what had not been done before is to work out whether the dust storms from the drought and land use had any impact on the drought," said Richard Seager of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) at Columbia University in New York. And they did.

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Farmer Arthur Coble and his sons run from a dust storm in Cimmaron County, Okla., in a famous photo from April 1936.

Actually, I appreciate the product list...there's two or three of 'em I've added to my shopping list. Shit, I might buy a few extras to cover a few of y'all's bullshit boycott. (I love cereals) I'll double-check the expiration dates, and see how many I can afford.

Corporate america is not the problem. Ones lack of personal responsibility, and current federal law is the problem...yet I hear no mention of y'alls plan to boycot Obama, the feds, state offices, or your idiot neighbors for selling cannabis to kids...

This has been my problem with NORML for many years now...they talk a big talk, misrepresent what it is we need to fight for, and have wasted thirty or fourty-something years (and shitloads of stoners' donations) attacking corporate america, when it's the fucking laws that need to change.

A few years ago, when I lived in Vegas, the idiots associated with our local NORMAL office went to turn-in the decriminalization petition (signed with thousands of signatures, qualifying it to be listed on state ballots) Judge turned them away. (they had miscounted the signatures, and were short by a few hundred) Later, after the signatures were acquired, they "forgot" to get the petition back to court on time, to be on the ballot. It had to wait till the next year, with fresh petitions, another canvassing crew, new signatures, additional filing fees... Par for the NORML course.

Never once have I seen them (NORMAL) try to organize responsible adults or even med patients...to help cary the torch of acceptability in our national culture...it's always someone like the Cheech and Chong representation of cannabis users that are dragged-out and propped on a pedestal to carry the message, and usually it's on a sit-com, at that.

Phelps has admitted he was caught red-handed, said he was wrong for breaking his contract, and has been appologetic to family, friends, his employer, and his fans, for breaking their trust. Yet NORML, in it's usual approach, blames Kellogs. Yeah...this tactic has worked very well for the past few decades, hasn't it. Attack a company for following legal and insurance guidelines, for the safety and health of all of it's employees. That argument has never worked in the past, and doubtful it will in the future...but hey...we'll keep beating that dead horse, you keep sending your donations.

Altho I felt it "cool" to support NORMAL 20 or 30 years ago, they've been ineffective, and in my honest opinion...a waste of cannabis resources.

I respect Phelps more for his humility and maturity with how he has handled this, than I do with NORML trying to exploit him and his situation.

His attitude, in my eyes, does more good for cannabis' image, than anything NORML has come up with the past 30 years. WHAT...? A cannabis user with morals and a sense of what personal responsibility is? Is this even possible?

MMMMM...Frosted Flakes...


re: the dust bowl...
All that other bullshit has nothing to do with cannabis, and is therefore irrelevant. But, parroting someone elses garbage will get us nowhere, now will it? Where was this attitude, a month before the Phelps story broke, or has this been gathered as a result of the Phelps story, and throwing everything against the wall works for y'all, huh? <sigh> This folks, is what NORML does with your cash.

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Will Kellogg and Post, and probably was responsible for the birth of the process food industry. Capitalists were starting to realize the huge profit potential of serving the public nutritionally empty food on a mass scale.

Eat your heart out, literally. Can't wait. Hurry!

I'm Boycotting cause they're such perverts.

Ever since I learned of the truly weird and sickening ideas of the original Kellogg (carbolic acid on a woman's clitoris? In what way does that differ from female circumcision performed in some Muslim countries? My Gawd!) , I ceased purchasing any Kellogg products. That was years ago. I just buy the generic store-brand stuff now, and have found I don't miss anything Kellogg makes.
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Gee...sounds like you could use some fiber...
You failed to mention it (corn flakes) was developed and first offered to folks vontarily trying to lose weight, on a fat farm. Every fat farm had the latest fad in diet and exercize. They (the visitors) liked the cereal enough to drive Kellog (I forget which brother) to market it. Back then, the science wasn't nearly as advanced as today, and regardless...they believed what they came up with would help folks lose weight, not sustain nutrition.

I love the cereals, and eat them daily.

Well done, Michael.

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8 arrested in Michael Phelps case
Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Holy crap. Sheriff Lott is certifiable.

Lott says the picture indicated a law was being broken in his jurisdiction. He said he couldn't ignore the violation just because Phelps is rich and famous.

We've now learned that since investigators began trying to build a case, they've made eight arrests: seven for drug possession and one for distribution. These are arrests that resulted as the sheriff's department served search warrants.

We've also learned that the department has located and confiscated that bong.

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"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the sources of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power."
- P.J. O'Rourke: Writer

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Phelps Swimming Suspension

Michael Phelps has been suspended by USA Swimming for three months over that picture of him smoking pot from a bong.

“This is not a situation where any anti-doping rule was violated, but we decided to send a strong message to Michael because he disappointed so may people, particularly the hundreds of thousands of USA Swimming member kids who look up to him as a role model and a hero,” USA Swimming said in a statement Thursday.

The organization has also cut off financial support to 23-year-old for the duration of his suspension.

Word is Phelps will not fight the suspension, which he says is ‘Fair.’

Kellogg’s Breaks Endorsement Deal With Olympian Michael Phelps

Beijing to bongs

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Michael Phelps Talks Possible Early Retirement In Wake Of The Marijuana Photos
In his first interview since a photo surfaced showing him smoking marijuana from a pipe at a college party last November, 14-time Olympic medal-winning swimmer Michael Phelps says he is contemplating whether or not he will compete in the 2012 Games due to his shame over the public scandal.

Here is some of Phelps Interview with the Baltimore Sun:

“This is a decision of mine that I’m not going to make today and I’m not going to make tomorrow,” Phelps said. “It’s going to require a lot of time and energy and a lot of thinking for myself - but also talking to Bob and talking to my family and just deciding what I want to do.

“Yeah, there are still goals that I have in the pool, 100 percent. But I’m not going to let anything stand in my way. If I decide to walk away, I’ll decide to walk away on my own terms. If it’s now, if it’s four years, who knows. But it is something I need to think about and decide what I want to do.”

Read the rest of Phelp’s Interview with the Baltimore Sun here.

Merriam-Webster sham·ing: to force by causing to feel guilty <shamed into confessing>

Releasing Guilt and Shame
This essence powerfully cleanses the psyche, dissolving all sense of guilt, shame, or remorse.

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Crime, Shame and Reintegration
Braithwaite explains that the desire to avoid shame aids in the development of conscience and social bonds. He distinguishes between two types of shame: stigmatizing shame which rejects and permanently labels offenders and reintegrative shame which only rejects the offender's deed but not the offender himself.

Conferences encourage positive personal change in offenders because unlike courts, conferences allow offenders to shed their offender label and be reintegrated into the community.

Mothers Against Misuse and Abuse
Formed in 1982 MAMA's approach is based on personal responsibility, informed decision making, and respect for human dignity.

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"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger."
Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering, Nazi Air Force (Luftwaffe) commander, the Nuremberg Trials

Nazism or Drug Cops

SCAPEGOATING -
Blaming social problems on a cultural, racial, or behaviorial group.

PREJUDICE -
Selling the public on the idea that all members of the targeted group are 'bad' people.

LIES -
'Facts', which cannot be verified, and pseudo scientific studies are used as propaganda against the targeted group. History is rewritten.

NO PUBLIC DEBATE -
"These people have no right to have their viewpoiunt aired." and " Anyone who disagrees or questions us must be one of them!"
Why is Ganja Illegal

DEHUMANIZATION -
Characterizing all members of a targeted group as subhuman and typically capable of monstrous deeds and/or crimes.

PROTECT OUR CHILDREN -
"They corrupt, seduce and or destroy our children."

CIVIL LIBERTIES SACRIFICED -
"We must give up some of our freedoms, liberties, and rights in order to combat this menace to society."

Leary-v-US
Marihuana Tax Act violated his privilege against self-incrimination

LEGAL DESCRIMINATION -
Laws criminalize members of targeted group and they may be denied jobs, the right to own property and/or be restricted as to where they may live or go.
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INFORMERS -
Citizens are urged to 'turn in' friends, neighbors, co- workers and family members.

SECRET POLICE -
Non-uniformed police squads set up to wage war on targeted groups utilizing deception, infiltration, espionage and entrapment.

Joseph McNamara Collection

CONFISCATION OF PROPERTY -
Property and assets are seized from people who are members of targeted group. Property may be divided between the informer and the state.

REMOVAL FROM SOCIETY -
Prisons, rehabilitation camps,'hospitals', executions and genocide...
("kill them all" "Zero Tolerance")

"Arbitrary and capricious" is legal language that was used by DEA Administrative Law Judge Francis Young in 1988 to conclude that DEA was obligated under the Controlled Substances Act to reschedule marijuana as a prescription medicine. DEA Chief Administrator Robert Bonner proceeded to arbitrarily and capriciously disregard Judge Young's well researched and reasoned decision, which the Act allowed him to do.

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Pot charge possible after Phelps' pipe photo

More Michael Phelps articles

SC Sheriff Investigating Phelps' Pot Pipe Pic AP Video

Michael Phelps Could Be Facing Legal Trouble

"Not only are we here to protect the public
from vicious criminals in the street
but also to protect the public from harmful ideas."
- Robert Ingersoll - Former DEA Director (1972)

“Ideas are more powerful than guns.
We would not let our enemies have guns,
why should we let them have ideas.”
- Joseph Stalin

More On Michael Phelps Infamous Bong Photo & Apology

Michael Phelps Hits The Bong, Probably Not A Good Idea…

Police say charges could be filed against Phelps SmokeScreen News

Michael Phelps apologizes after marijuana photo surfaces

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More Phelp's stories/pics

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Pot Smokers Unite Against Kellogg
Since Cannabis Culture Editor Marc Emery's call for a boycott of Kellogg's a few days ago for dropping Olympian Michael Phelps after he was photographed smoking a bong, pot smokers from across the globe continue to put the heat on the cold cereal company. Surprisingly, the mainstream media seems to be paying attention.
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Boycott Kellogg Co. for Dumping Michael Phelps
Cannabis Culture Magazine Editor Marc Emery is encouraging all marijuana smokers to boycott Kellogg's cereal company for dropping their sponsorship of Olympian Michael Phelps after he was caught on film smoking from a bong. full story

Pot-Smoking Phelps Isn't Alone Among Athletes

Olympic Champion Michael Phelps Caught With Marijuana Pipe

In Defense of Michael Phelps’ Bong Hits
Posted by The Marijuana News Staff on February 6th, 2009

Michael Phelps Drug Charge Threat
US: News of the World 09 Feb 2009

Hey, Bong Boy Phelps - It's Not the Pot That
Canada: Column: Southey, Tabatha Globe and Mail 07 Feb 2009

Maturity and Celebrity
US ND: Edu: Editorial: Liden, Stephanie Dakota Student 06 Feb 2009

Michael Phelps Is Not Alone
CN QU: Editorial: Montreal Gazette 07 Feb 2009

Phelps' Legacy Will Not Be Remembered
US IL: Edu: Column: Johnson, Jeremy Daily Vidette 04 Feb 2009

Real Moral to Phelps' Bong Story
US TX: Column: Parker, Kathleen Dallas Morning News 07 Feb 2009

Stop The Reefer Madness! By Steve Almond
CN Source: Boston Globe February 06, 2009 Boston, MA

You have no doubt seen by now - several hundred times - the photo of gold medalist swimmer Michael Phelps sucking on a bong.

As might be expected in our age of manufactured sanctimony, the pundits have gone into overdrive on the Olympic icon. "This is a sad day for Phelps," Christine Brennan moaned, in that vaunted organ of conventional wisdom, USA Today, "and a sadder day for the millions of parents and young athletes who planned their lives around his races last August. How disappointed must they be that a glorious hero, a person in whom they placed their trust, has done something illegal for which he must apologize?"

Boycott Killoggs
Thats some really weird schtuff as Johnney would say...

A Grass-Roots Situation
Shadowed in cycles through recent decades while other legal or illegal or performance-enhancing stimulants took turns getting all the hype, marijuana has just hollered in the case of merely the most-decorated Olympian in history, Michael Phelps. It has tried to yell from the recent past of the Super Bowl most valuable player, who alighted at Disney World only four months after a forgotten arrest.

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* Michael Phelps and Sheriff Lott : He's gunning for you, Michael.

* Michael Phelps Apologizes for Bong Shot

* Michael Phelps Marijuana Bong Discussion On “The View” (02/02/09)

Michael Phelps comes to terms with 3-month suspension By Associated Press

USA Swimming suspends Michael Phelps for 3 months By Associated Press

"Laws do not persuade just because they threaten."
- Seneca, A.D. 65

Celebrity Stoners: American High Society

Cannabis extract made by Parke, Davis & Co. circa 1910

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Pesticide Abortionists

Many Veterans are the Enemy of the Bush D.E.A.th War

300000 Iraq & Afghan Vets Suffer PTSD & Depression

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This should prove to the world that one can enjoy some herb and still get their goals accomplished, be it a strong healthy family or 8 Olympic gold medals.

Swimming is a harsh sport; you utilize every muscle system in the body. I mean, this isn't put-put, ya know?

If Phelps is toking and doing as well as he has, and probably will continue to do, then hopefully some uneducated eyes will open up to the fact that just because a person indulges in some ganja doesn't mean that they're a stereotypical slacker. It is perfectly feasible for one to enjoy MJ and still function in society, excel, even.

I used to think Phelps was kind of cute; now I consider him to be the 2nd hottest man on earth. (next to my hottie hubby honey, of course!)

The owner if the bong wasn't even at the party, but it showed-up on eBay for a starting price of $100,000.00. I guess the sheriff was the winning bidder, lol. It likely pissed-off the sheriff seeing evidence being disposed-of, which I'll bet triggered the arrests.
Doubtful the sheriff has done anything but his job, and likely there's a reason those involved were busted. If the sheriff has overstepped his authority, the court will remedy the error.

If you play the game, better be ready to pay the price. End of story. Don't like the rules, or those that enforce 'em...? Then, get to work and change those rules. You keep deflecting the responsibility of this on every fucking person and corporation under the sun, except for those that are responsible for their own actions.

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Just another case of the govenment attacking a person based on their being a celebrity........just like they jumped on tommy chong for making bongs.

If this was you or me (average joe) there would be no story.... anyone can own the same bong he used for $650 shipped
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