Michael Phelps: Sacrificial Pawn For Greedy Pigs At The Top

So the U.S swim team has jumped on the conservative propaganda bandwagon and suspended Michael Phelps due to his pot smoking.

I’m really curious as to why this is, considering marijuana can in no way be considered a sport performance enhancing drug. Caffeine by all means is a lot more performance enhancing. Hell, if you want to go even further, carbohydrates are a more performance enhancing substance than marijuana can ever be.

The swim team however decides to say screw common sense, reason, and the ever growing open public support for Phelps (and therefore obviously marijuana itself) in this case.

Why would the swim team care what substance someone puts in their body as long as it’s not classified as performance enhancing? Why don’t they also test for caffeine? If they want to be fair and non hypocritical idiots they should. Why don’t they test for alcohol or nicotine? Oh I see, they government says they’re fine because even though they’re umpteen times more damaging to your body and potentially people around you, they make money off the sale, and many folks in Washington are in bed with those execs of the legal drug industry. As we all know, money in your pocket is more important than the life and well being of someone else.

You see, I feel that if a sports team is so concerned about someone using illegal drugs, shouldn’t they also be concerned about them using legal ones also that are proven to do bodily harm such as nicotine and alcohol. Does that make sense or no? Look at it this way, as a team with vested interest in the health of its athletes (or so they claim), that kind of action is something they should in fact do. By their logic for this suspension, why should a coach spend time on training an athlete to be their very best if the trainee isn’t doing their best to keep up their end of the deal and keep themselves in top shape to get the most from the coach’s training? Alcohol and tobacco products are a direct hindrance to that.

But of course you won’t ever see that happen, because most people in high ranks within organizations get there because of who they know and how much ass they’ve kissed, not by how smart they are, so you’ll probably never see that sort of common sense come from the top of any organization.

But what is important here is that I know and you know and I hope Phelps knows that there are smart people out there who can see past the smoke and mirrors. It’s not enough that we know however. We need to start making some noise.

This suspension has nothing to do with the health or well being of Phelps or the time investment by his coaches, or to teach him a lesson about saying no to drugs or taking care of his health. This has everything instead to do with assholes at the top of the swim team sacrificing the well being, image, and future of a very gifted human being all because they want to save their own face in the eyes of the all powerful conservative Amerika.

They’re cowards, and I won’t go into more colorful detail about what else I think they are, I’ll leave that to your imagination.

The bottom line is that there’s no better time than today to start taking a final stand against the idiots in the U.S who continue to fight a senseless war against a harmless substance based on decades old, out of date research, and old wives tales based on absurd government propaganda.

LINKS:

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Washington Post

NORML’s take

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