IPOPA has a nice rant on the brouhaha over Michael Phelps and the devil’s weed marijuana. Bottom line: the reaction to Phelps is as ridiculous as our demonization of marijuana as opposed to our approach to cigarettes and alcohol.
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IPOPA has a nice rant on the brouhaha over Michael Phelps and the devil’s weed marijuana. Bottom line: the reaction to Phelps is as ridiculous as our demonization of marijuana as opposed to our approach to cigarettes and alcohol.
The more this kind of thing comes up, the more I favor legalizing marijuana.
Not ’cause I think its particularly wonderful, or out of any personal desire – I just think the negatives of prohibition aren’t worth the gains, if there really are any.
If he is getting money because of his public image, then how he handles his public image will determine how much money he can make.
I have no problem with Kellogg dropping him, but I also have no problem if many of his other sponsors keep him.
If it was a photo of him with a beer bong, I would expect the same reaction.
It truly is absurd, how we treat and think of marijuana as being different than alcohol or tobacco. None of the three are especially good for you. All three pose certain health risks.
I think of all three the same way. I don’t use two of them, and the third, alcohol, I use very sparingly, probably twice a month. It’s because of my recognition of the risks involved with each.
Alas, we don’t treat our adults like adults when it comes to marijuana, and decreasingly with tobacco.
There are several items Libertarians have on the ‘hopeful’ list for the Obama Administration, the kind of things there is some manner of agreement between libertarians and the left. This is one of them. I truly hope this incident with Phelps further pushes the Administration to look at drug policy in the US, and helps us move towards legalization and de-criminalization, and an end to the War on Drugs.