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27 Oct 2009 10:42 am
Double Standards
David Sirota asks why it is socially acceptable for Lance Armstrong to hawk alcohol, which the International Journal of Cancer estimates causes "roughly one in 30 of the world's cancer cases":
[L]ess
than a year after Phelps was crucified for merely smoking weed in
private, few noticed or protested the planet's most famous cancer
survivor becoming the public face of a possible carcinogen. "Apparently, it’s perfectly acceptable for a world-class athlete to
endorse a substance like alcohol that contributes to thousands of
deaths each year, as well as hundreds of thousands of violent crimes
and injuries," says Mason Tvert, a co-author of the new book "Marijuana
Is Safer." "Yet a world-class athlete like Michael Phelps is ridiculed,
punished and forced to apologize for marijuana, the use of which
contributes to zero deaths, and has never been linked to violent or
reckless behavior. Why the double standard?"
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