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How worried should we be about Michael Phelps and marijuana?

By Jim Caple
Page 2

Monday, May 18, 2009

Michael Phelps returned to the pool over the weekend, and somehow our society weathered the crisis. Parents momentarily forgot the threat posed by a 23-year-old athlete/role model's smoking marijuana to better focus their fears on the possibility that their children could be sexting. Teenagers did not catch swine flu by sharing celebratory bong hits because they were too busy texting their friends while their parents lectured them about sexting. And Kellogg's, always concerned with projecting a ...

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