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Article: Farcical pot laws make Phelps a criminal.(Local Opinion)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- February 11, 2009
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Byline: GUEST VIEWPOINT By Daniel Lawton For The Register-Guard
Somewhere around half of Americans have used marijuana. One of them is Michael Phelps. The 23-year-old swimmer and winner of 14 Olympic gold medals was recently photographed taking a bong hit at a South Carolina party, and as a result has been the subject of the sort of intensive tabloidism usually reserved for Paris Hilton or Angelina Jolie.
Every media outlet - from TMZ to CNN - has hammered Phelps for getting high. The British tabloid News of the World broke the story by publishing the picture of Phelps toking up beneath a giant headline that read "What a dope." The magazine went on to ...