Local people in South Carolina are calling it the Michael Phelps incident. A week ago, 8 time olympic gold winner, Michael Phelps was shown in a picture of the News of World paper in United Kingdom hitting the (weed) bong. Now police in South Carolina apparently have arrested some of the friends that where with Phelps. This is truly a classic example of how the politics of drugs often violate civil liberties. Police in South Carolina must be water tight on the evidence, and I am not talking about heresay or simple cell phone pictures.
The legal quagmire resides in the fact that Michael Phelps has publicly recognized that he smoke marijuana in Columbus, South Carolina. Now, police in South Carolina can (must?) charge Michael Phelps at least with possession of drug controlled substances, because of the news of the crime...Phelps is facing a three month ban from competitive swimming and now it looks like a court date in South Carolina...
What percentage of US college students have clean sheets from criminal courts in the US? Not a lot I would say...
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