Speaking of Role Models....

Oh sweetness, please don't feel so bad.

"This is just a stupid thing of mine that I did, and I have to live with it," he said, telling the paper, too, that he is not a regular pot smoker. After last weekend's publication of the photo, which reportedly was taken in South Carolina last November, the local sheriff said he is looking into possible criminal prosecution against Phelps. "This was stupid," said the swimmer, "and I know this won't happen again. It's obviously bad judgment and it's something I'm not proud of at all. I will say that with the mistakes that I've made in my life, I've learned from them. Every one of them. And I've become a better person."

If anyone deserves to smoke some weed and chill out it's you kid. You were not hitting the bong during the Olympics....and if you were who gives a rat's ass??? Pot is not the most athletically enhancing drug so if you were smoking the pots and still won all those gold medals? You are still an amazing athlete. No asterisk, no nothing.