Michael Phelps Smoking Weed Photo

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By Sean Percival on February 1, 2009

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This picture of Michael Phelps apparently smoking weed is setting the Internets a blaze! It appears to show mega-gold medal champion Phelps giving the old bong a good bubbling. What do you think of the marijuana controversy?

Update: Michael Phelps has admitted that the photo accurately depicts “bad behavior”.  Here is his statement:

Phelps said: “I engaged in behavior which was regrettable and demonstrated bad judgment. I’m 23 years old and despite the successes I’ve had in the pool, I acted in a youthful and inappropriate way, not in a manner people have come to expect from me. For this, I am sorry. I promise my fans and the public it will not happen again.”

Photo by: News of The World

Reader Comments

  1. slicky February 1, 2009 - 12:09 pm

    fool – can’t do anything without getting caught. where was this?

  2. Chappaz February 1, 2009 - 1:43 pm

    Who gives a crap? He’s young, hes 23, he can smoke some weed just like most other people his age if he wants to.

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  4. yourfather February 1, 2009 - 7:28 pm

    what’s the problem, every one does it, right? well, here is a fact: In the last 4 months there has been more than 1.300 death because of cannabis sativa, erithroxylon cocae, etc. Relatives of my closest friends have been kidnapped, some other friends have been killed, in those little towns where the grow “mota” kill each other because of drug, doctors, engineers, lawyers, students, fathers, daughters, sons, mothers, get killed; all because “most other peoples his age” gets doped. this is a fact!

  5. timbo February 1, 2009 - 8:43 pm

    “yourfather” is a moron, i realize that name was probably chosen just for posts like this, but you’re post was just so ficticious i had to let you know you’re an idiot.

  6. GetALife February 1, 2009 - 8:55 pm

    Seriously, if he soooo successful and still countinues on with life as normal, soooo efing what if he does smoke some trees that grew from the earth. There is no record of anyone dying from marijuana, thats a fact in the books. Get a life and mind your own business, you people are always the biggest hipocrates on earth!! Everyone has a vice, regarless of what it entails….

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  8. the dizzle February 1, 2009 - 11:22 pm

    Bong away Phelps…..you kicked major ass, burn all the buds you want….as for father figure up there – you are definitely moron. Seriously. Try to be more intelligent, your kids are pry gonna smoke pot

  9. rr February 2, 2009 - 12:04 am

    I salute this toke 2 u phelps.

    Chappaz February 1, 2009 – 1:43 pm
    Who gives a crap? He’s young, hes 23, he can smoke some weed just like most other people his age if he wants to.

    dont u mean most other people period?

  10. cina February 2, 2009 - 12:18 am

    meh.

  11. fuckthesteelers February 2, 2009 - 12:21 am

    fuck the steelers

  12. Michael Phelps February 2, 2009 - 1:30 am

    Guys, thanks for your support.
    Just to let everyone know i used heroin to help me win my 8 golds.
    Peace Out A Town
    Michael Phelps

  13. Mernahuana February 2, 2009 - 2:21 am

    incredible! good job on phelps on winning eight medals and using marijuana. more proof that pot is good for what ails you. proof weed is medicinal.

  14. Miguel Felts February 2, 2009 - 2:51 am

    I think he won those medalls because he get´s used to take steroids. But now he tryed to smoke some weed just to try something different. I think next time he´ll try crack or some great drug from south america (colombia is the best)

  15. liberal February 2, 2009 - 3:31 am

    Can you imagine the lungs on this guy??? Don’t invite him to your toke fest! He bogart your entire stash.

  16. Principi February 2, 2009 - 7:03 am

    Haha. That’s really true. Never smoke with swimmers And I doubt this is the first time Phelps has tried it but except for the whole role model thing, it doesn’t matter. And with the rage over “Twilight”, their stars are getting drunk and high all the time too. So really we should just expect role models to screw up, it’s a lot of pressure.

  17. III VI alchemist February 2, 2009 - 10:06 am

    Michael Phelps is still the best in the world at his sport. True weed isn’t good for your lungs, but its how you use it. Be smart, know the effects and continue to live your life. If he still decides to smoke then so be it. no body else in the world has achieved what Michael Phelps has. So dont judge him. As long as his productive, keep doing what you do Michael Phelps.

  18. alexi lucio alejo February 2, 2009 - 10:31 am

    smoke weed every day! viva Mèxico! :p

  19. HoorayBeer! February 2, 2009 - 10:35 am

    hahahaha YOURFATHER knows ALL the facts!!! 1,300 deaths in a year from pot?!?! There hasn’t been ONE recorded in the history of mankind!! Sounds like YOURFATHER is the one who is ‘doped’. These people and their flailing attempt to hold onto archaic and outdated “facts” from generations ago need to wake up. Studies upon studies have been performed over the past decades and prove weed isn’t what we have been told it is- even Mayor LaGuardia’s research team back in the 30’s proved it! It was illegalized to aid in the rounding up of Mexican immigrants in the southwest back in the 1930’s – Now there’s a good ol’ American ideal! Couple up a problem – any problem – with immigrants because the good wholesome god fearing Americans would be living in Utopia were it not for those heathens outside our border! It’s time to grow up and get real with this issue and allow the FACTS to dispel the RHETORIC. Feel free to look up these FACTS, YOURFATHER. I would love to hear your retort!

  20. weedisgood February 2, 2009 - 10:37 am

    yourfather that is the dumbest shit ive ever heard that is so fucking far from the truth u cant die from weed jack ass

  21. joel montgomery February 2, 2009 - 11:02 am

    hell yeah take that bong hit, reppin all the stoners in MARYLAND

  22. jim February 2, 2009 - 11:49 am

    Everyone have done this in college! so what

  23. Ayrlain Prenna February 2, 2009 - 12:00 pm

    How could Phelps be sooooooo careless to have this happen period. I know he and others would love to make hamburger meat out of the person who “captured this photo” and then SOLD this photo for a sure life changing amount. Michael, I salute you for working so hard, for managing your life with impenetrable desire, for rising to the challenges and pressures in Beijing, and for showing the world that the USA “RULES IN THE POOLS.” Michael, have a binger anytime you wish, you deserve one more than anyone in the world who would criticize you for it…….lololol

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  25. bob February 2, 2009 - 8:53 pm

    Isn’t this gonna ruin him in the pool cause doesn’t smoking pot ruin some1’s lungs and since swimming requires larges lungs, hes just gonna ruin what he has worked so hard to achieve.

  26. killabud February 2, 2009 - 8:54 pm

    Go phelps smoke till the next olympics life is too short to care what people think so light up and toke it!

  27. offengivenbuddblazin February 2, 2009 - 9:13 pm

    phelps! hows the budd!?haha boy better smoke that top notch for who he be

  28. HAHAHAH February 2, 2009 - 9:19 pm

    I lost my full ride scholarship for testing positive for POT..But it just shows that other althletes do drugs..it just sucks for the ones who get caught..BEEN THERE DONE THAT..and its a shitty feeling

  29. Ben Jensen February 2, 2009 - 9:27 pm

    I met Michael Phelps in Vail hanging out with Mike Porricelli (also from Maryland) and find it hard to believe that he is a regular pothead. MIke and Mike definitely can have a good time….drug free!

  30. Rick Peterson February 2, 2009 - 9:33 pm

    I smoked pot for 4 years while playing D1 football in the 80’s and do not see what the big deal is….Let the kid have a little fun and experience the trials and tribulations of growing up.

  31. hottotrot February 2, 2009 - 9:36 pm

    the kid is how old, the only way that you didnt do this at your age is if you were living in the great deppression. i mean come on, its not like hes an addict.

    the boy won his medals, let him out of the limelight.

    speaking of his medals, this was probably new to him, it would have showed up at the olympics.

  32. LimoSteve February 2, 2009 - 9:38 pm

    Small f@#$ing world….I knew Mike Porricelli back in the day when he ran with Scott Skiles and those two could do it up right!!!!! No suprise that Phelps and Porricelli hooked up!

  33. LimoSteve February 2, 2009 - 9:39 pm

    Small f@#$ing world….I knew Mike Porricelli back in the day when he ran with Scott Skiles and those two could do it up right!!!!! No surprise that Phelps and Porricelli hooked up!

  34. L.J. Williamson February 2, 2009 - 10:47 pm

    There’s a great editorial on Michael Phelps pot bust and how it relates to parenting at
    http://tinyurl.com/bs79sh

  35. badass February 2, 2009 - 11:39 pm

    LOL you guys forget to mention the most important thing of this picture! he’s smoking out of one of the best bongs ever made! the ROOR bong!!!!

  36. Eduardo February 3, 2009 - 6:27 am

    eu acho que ele tem mesmo é que bongar.
    tá mais que certo.

  37. dur February 3, 2009 - 8:36 am

    Amen HoorayBeer!! Yourfather do some reading.

  38. jmart February 3, 2009 - 11:47 am

    you know, gettin that mind right… i’m not hatin.

  39. ima swimmer too February 3, 2009 - 11:49 am

    im 18 years old an i smoke weed everyday and i still get my shit done i swim everyday too.
    people need to stop tripping about weed its not bad at all.
    in todays youth world we all smoke weed everday so stop giving phelps all this bad credit he won 8 gold medals an hes a pot head so what…

  40. mad mike February 3, 2009 - 11:57 am

    If were not careful the Netherlands is going to have the worlds best swimmer in 7 years

  41. The funny Thing February 3, 2009 - 1:19 pm

    Theres no smoke in the bong? I mean c’mon if you’re trying to take a picture to make money off phelps
    atleast wait til the prime moment, scrubbbbb :)

  42. haha February 3, 2009 - 1:36 pm

    the guy who took this photo only sold it for a 1000 dollars, he’s a moron, i was there when this photo was taken in columbia, sc at a USC party. btw phelps is one of the biggest assholes you’ll ever meet

  43. jonathon February 3, 2009 - 3:11 pm

    GET A VAPORIZER MAN!!!!!
    it gets you way more higher:)

  44. jonathon February 3, 2009 - 3:16 pm

    you should get a vaporizer!!!!!!
    you get way more higher:)

  45. Brotha February 3, 2009 - 5:45 pm

    ye

  46. TwentyAfterFour February 3, 2009 - 5:56 pm

    One minute he’s a HERO…smoke a little herb…now he’s the ANTI-CHRIST!
    Hey MIKEY NICE GLASS! puff puff GIVE! </ / / / /# ~ ~

  47. Ben Heyman February 3, 2009 - 8:21 pm

    I doubt there would have been this kind of uproar if he had been caught smoking a Marlboro or drinking a Coors. Fucking hypocrits. Grow up and chill out.

  48. coffee February 4, 2009 - 9:46 am

    Is the issue one picture of Michael Phelps smoking pot, or is the issue misplaced responsibility? People should not look to celebrities to be their moral guides.

  49. HeyFuckYou February 4, 2009 - 9:16 pm

    Smoke Weed bitches, and fuck that guys dad. I don’t care how many out of a thousand die, I’ve smoked a thousand times and haven’t died once. So I’m gonna smoke so much more weed to spite people who would have me do otherwise. Fuck the man upstairs, Fuck the Man on this Forum, and Fuck andone without the clarity of mind to smoke a little dope.

  50. SexyClaudine February 8, 2009 - 9:05 pm

    I knew Mike Porricelli when he lived in Florida. ANyone know how to get in touch with him? Is he in Colorado in Vail?

  51. lay February 12, 2009 - 4:09 am

    while phelps is a bit of an idiot for letting someone take a picture of him taking a hit, i feel terrible for him. he got caught doing something that a healthy chunk of people his age are doing. it’s only because he’s MICHAEL-FUCKING-PHELPS that we REALLY care. it definitely sucks that he’s losing a lot of support but i can get that endorsers need to protect their image. til this clears up, have fun michael!

  52. Jonaslvr14 February 16, 2009 - 10:31 am

    it may be illegal to smoke marijuana but people younger and older than him take this drug so give him a break!he doesnt need this crap from yall when he is already dealing with it with the paprazzi,family,friends!?so please just chill out.

  53. prunk*love(Joe Jonas, i luv u!) February 16, 2009 - 10:33 am

    ooooommmmmmmmgggggg!!!! wwwwwwwwttttttfffffffffffffffff!!!!!!!!! idc if its illegal!!!! wtfe! dudes yalllllll knww yall did dat toooooooooo! gosh!

  54. prunk*love(Joe Jonas, i luv u!) February 16, 2009 - 10:35 am

    and btw…….. XD

  55. SunshineJ14 February 16, 2009 - 10:39 am

    shut up prunk love!!!

  56. Anonymous February 16, 2009 - 10:39 am

    hahahaha

  57. Ricardo February 25, 2009 - 5:56 pm

    yo nado y queria ser como el pero aora no. lo bueno es que pidio perdon.

  58. Gaia February 26, 2009 - 11:54 am

    Micheal Phelps, you man of amazing lung capacity, and appreciator of the healing herb, I would looooooove to smoke you down one day!

  59. steven March 16, 2009 - 11:35 am

    why dont you all look at the damn picture. im a pot head and i know a tad bit about the stuff. just look at the bong the is no smoke in it and the water isnt even bubbling. anyone who has ever smoked out of a bong knows this shit. its redicoulus. michael phelps shouldnt be punished for putting his lips up to a bong. that is just bull shit.. plus even if he was smoking pot he is now my hero. everyone always talks about how bad pot is. what pothead do you know that can smoke a joint and win 8 gold medals. now dont that say something. michael phelps is an olympic hero and if he wants to smoke pot then more power to him. that is his personal buisness. the person that took the pic is a dumbass. peoples personal buisness is thier buisness only and some tard thinks he will be cool and put a pic like that on the internet. he or she oughta be shot. and if kellogs has a problem with potheads then they can suck a dick. some of the smartest people i know smoke pot. i am a sophmore in highschool and i smoke pot almost everyday before i come to school and i smoke at school on most days and i have a 3.84 gpa and i made a 27 on the practice act. there isnt anything wrong with michael phelps smoking pot and the ones of you who have a problem with it are just ignorant. its not like it was a pic of him with a straw up to his nose while snorting a line of coke. you people just need to grow up!!!

  60. 420 March 22, 2009 - 8:37 pm

    all you who critisive obviously havent not toked before, Go PHELPS

  61. Wooziedank May 5, 2009 - 5:16 am

    Jerusalem, Pali smokers wtsuuuuup!!
    its real hard to get good weed here, most of what we smoke in jerusalem is lebanese hash, which is corrupted with coke or mescaline or henna and other wierd ass chemicals :S phelps dude, come to pali and bring me some cali kush dude!

  62. Jessica July 31, 2009 - 10:34 am

    So many celebrities have taken drugs and haven’t been frowned upon. But when Michael Phelps does marijuana then everyone in the world hates him. He’s done less drugs than Lindsay Lohan for god’s sake!

  63. ol´ German October 9, 2009 - 6:55 am

    Just Legalize it !
    That would be the best way to solve a lot of Problems

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