Gah!

So Michael Phelps likes to get high. Big fucking deal, that would make him exactly like all the alcohol drinking, ciggie smoking, prescription abusing people in the world. The only reason it's a big deal is that the fact that you can become the most successful olympian who ever lived AND hit the pipe on a regular basis blows a big hole in the 'don't try drugs because you will die' argument.

Illegal drugs aren't really that dangerous. Hollywood is filled with people who abuse cocaine and heroin every day and the occasional death involving drugs is more likely to involve prescription drug abuse, like Heath Ledger. In this list of notable drug deaths, the people NOT highlighted are probable unintentional drug deaths. This obviously doesn't include people who made medical conditions worse. Note the presence of alcohol and the TOTAL FUCKING ABSENCE of mary jane. Bad drugs, cut with god knows what, is what kills people. If you're a hollywood star you can afford top quality drugs which makes dying from them that much harder, just like how deaths from poorly distilled alcohol dropped when the prohibition ended in the US.

If anything all the tut tutters should STFU and be happy that Phelps picked an illegal drug that's safe as houses as opposed to the cocaine and heroin preferred by pretty much everyone who's supposed to be a 'role model' for kids. If Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan can still appear on magazines aimed at kids Phelps can still be a swimmer.