A South Carolina sheriff said Monday he was not going to charge swimmer Michael Phelps after a photo of the 14-time gold medalist showed him smoking from a marijuana pipe.
Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said during a news conference that he didn't have enough physical evidence to charge the swimmer, but he defended his investigation. Read the story here.
Charged? Why?
Would charging Phelps really help in the Drug War when dealers are sitting in MacDonald's parking lots, collecting drug sales money from their teenaged runners? When teen boys ride around in brand new cars just waiting to receive orders over their cell phones? When teens are riding around in the dealer's Maserati? When dealers live across the street from Duke students? When dealing drugs is now considered a respectable business? Oh come on.
It's laughable. Expelling gas into the wind. Taking a bucketfull of water out of the ocean.