{"id":607,"date":"2009-02-06T13:49:40","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T18:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/?p=607"},"modified":"2009-02-06T13:49:40","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T18:49:40","slug":"norml-responds-to-phelps-pot-smoking-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/norml-responds-to-phelps-pot-smoking-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"NORML Responds To Phelp’s Pot-Smoking Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington, DC: Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps and tens of millions of other successful Americans have smoked marijuana; America’s laws should reflect this fact not deny it, NORML Deputy Director Paul Armentano wrote<\/a> on The Hill.com’s influential Congress blog this week.<\/p>\n

The Hill is a popular Washington, DC publication that is widely read by members of Congress and their staff.<\/p>\n

Armentano writes: Sure, there will be some who will say that this latest chapter in Phelp’s life is deserving of criticism because the 14-time gold medalist is sending a poor message to young children. And what message would that be? That you can occasionally smoke marijuana and still be successful in life. Well sorry if the truth hurts.”<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, Phelps acknowledged<\/a> that he used marijuana while attending a college party in November. A photograph of Phelps smoking cannabis at the party appeared in a British tabloid on Sunday.<\/p>\n

To date, more than 200 readers have posted feedback to NORML’s commentary,<\/a> making it one of the most commented on essays in Hill.com history.<\/p>\n

Full text of Armentano’s editorial, Why condemn Phelps when we ought to condemn the laws that brand him a criminal,” is available online at: http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/b2aqg3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Washington, DC: Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps and tens of millions of other successful Americans have smoked marijuana; America’s laws should reflect this fact not deny it, NORML Deputy Director Paul Armentano wrote on The Hill.com’s influential Congress blog this week. The Hill is a popular Washington, DC publication that is widely read by members […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,263],"tags":[565,139,358,26,189,566,564,142,160,567],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-hemp-and-ganja","tag-althletes-and-pot","tag-cannabis","tag-health-stuff-you-need-to-know","tag-marijuana","tag-medical-marijuana","tag-olympic-gold","tag-phelps","tag-pot","tag-prohibition","tag-swimmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":609,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions\/609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}