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Somebody put a stop to this. Should Michael Phelps be smoking pot? No, but leave the kid alone. He’s 23 and living like a 23-year-old. Aren’t there more important things to occupy our time?

I don’t really see how smoking pot enhances his swimming ability — thus negating any allegations that he’s “doping.”

And somebody get him some better friends.

Not only did they sell the picture of him smoking out of bong to a British tabloid, now they’re getting busted for trying to sell the bong on eBay for $100,000. Not cool.

“Saturday Night Live” hasn’t been worth watching lately, but I couldn’t agree more with Seth Meyers take on the Phelps-smokes-pot circus:

I wonder what kind of outrage there would be had he been smoking (gasp!) tobacco. And where were his sponsors when he was busted for a DUI?

UPDATE

Boycotts begin

There’s a lot of people upset over this, so much so that boycotts are being organized and Kellogg’s had to set up a designated phone line to field calls about the company dropping Phelps. From Meaningful Distraction:

There is currently a Facebook group titled “Boycott Kellogg’s for Dumping Phelps Over Bong Photo,” with nearly 6,000 members calling for a boycott of all Kellogg’s products.

The group states, “More than 100 million Americans — our friends, our family, and our president — have admitted to using marijuana, and they shouldn’t be treated like criminals!” and calls for people to dial up the company and complain.

Apparently, so many calls have been placed that Kellogg’s needed to set up a special line. When you call, you are asked to press 1 to leave comments about the Phelps controversy. Button 2 is for salmonella in peanut butter! And people say marijuana makes you lose motivation!

Other groups are also outraged. The Marijuana Policy Project, the Drug Policy Alliance, Students for Sensible Drug Policy and the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws have also called for a boycott.