Pro-Pot Lobby Rips Kellogg Co. For Dropping Phelps

[Purveyor]

Source: Associated Press

(02-10) 14:21 PST NEW YORK, (AP) --

Snap, crackle ... pot?

Bursting with indignation, legions of marijuana advocates are urging a boycott of Kellogg Co., including all of its popular munchies, for deciding to cut ties with Olympic hero Michael Phelps after he was photographed with a pot pipe.

The leader of one of the biggest legalize-pot organizations, the Marijuana Policy Project, called Kellogg's action "hypocritical and disgusting," and said he'd never seen his membership so angry, with more than 2,300 of them signing an online petition.

"Kellogg's had no problem signing up Phelps when he had a conviction for drunk driving, an illegal act that could actually have killed someone," said Rob Kampia, the group's executive director. "To drop him for choosing to relax with a substance that's safer than beer is an outrage, and it sends a dangerous message to young people."

Also urging a boycott were the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, Students for Sensible Drug Policy and the Drug Policy Alliance. They encouraged their members to contact Kellogg to vent their views.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/02/10/national/a141454S25.DTL

[pleah]

1. Get down!

:)

[BlueJazz]

41. Here you go.

[pleah]

58. ROTFLMAO!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[LuckyTheDog]

46. It'll never work

I have to wonder how effective this boycott will be. Will college kids really be able to resist eating a big bowl of Frosted Flakes, several Pop Tarts and a handful of Honey Smacks after a night of passing the bong around?

[pleah]

59. Please pass the munchies.

:rofl:

[Gregorian]

2. That's it, I'm never buying Weedies again.

Sheesh, why has this taken thirty years!

[Kixel]

10. He didn't go on the Wheaties box!

General Mills makes Wheaties-he was on Kellogg's Corn Flakes. General Mills doesn't pay their Champions so they couldn't have dropped his contract.

As a former employee, I feel the need to defend a company that actually treats their employees well.

[here_is_to_hope]

35. hee hee...'weedies' and Wheaties...lol n/t

[Marcus Fenix]

3. ....

what difference does it make, if he wanted to be stupid and blow is sponsorship its his own fault.

[Dr.Phool]

9. Yeah, who would want to endorse a company founded on giving enema's

And using corn flakes to cure masturbation?

What was the name of that movie?

[jmowreader]

11. The Road to Wellville

I love that movie...especially the part where Charlie tries to make the green cornflakes that turn out so bad not even pigs will eat them.

[Dr.Phool]

12. Bingo!

Thanks.

[Cha]

70. Kellogg's a fucking hypocrite..that's

the difference.

[Zhade]

89. Except that he didn't do anything stupid. He just smoked a proven-beneficial herb.

His privacy was violated. He did nothing wrong.

[GentryDixon]

4. I sent my letter to Kellog's.

I'm really going to miss those Keebler Grahams!;(

[chollybocker]

5. "Kellogg's had no problem signing up Phelps when he had a conviction for drunk driving..."

Zactly.

[Marcus Fenix]

8. so

maybe Kelloggs decided to give him a second chance and he screwed it up.

[Hissyspit]

16. More likely they're just hypocrites.

Drunk driving kills people. Smoking a bong in someone's house doesn't.

Of course, if he'd smoked the bong and then driven off, that would be a different story.

[emilyg]

42. And he failed.

[frog92969]

6. If I owned a cereal company...

nobody would get on the box unless they provided a picture of themselves doing a bong hit.

You have to know your market.

[skyounkin]

22. LMAO!!

WIN!!

[lostnfound]

7. Great idea; it's time to stop the gross waste of federal dollars and attack on civil liberties

And the spraying of the Amazon rainforest with weedkiller, in the name of a 'drug war'.

[Wizard777]

13. Pot heads have two major food groups. Dorito's and cereal.

So they've probably alienated a major market.

[Gregorian]

18. TO JACK IN THE BOX!!!

Well that was where we headed back in the 70's. I'll never forget the night we found a place with ten burgers for a couple of dollars. Heaven. God I miss those stoner nights.

Now that I think of it, I remember climbing on to the roof and having a hamburger war with my friends. :)

[Zhade]

91. JITB even had a stoner commercial!

"How many should I get?"

"30."

"That's what I was thinking!"

[here_is_to_hope]

36. anti pot guy..."So, whats your name?" stoned guy...."French Toast!" n/t

[olddad56]

14. Pot is better for you than Any Kellogg products.

My son eats a granola cereal made by Nature's Path that is called Hemp Plus Granola. We buy it at Trader's Joe's. Wouldn't be cool if Micheal Phelps would endorse this product, now that he isn't working for Kellogg.

[Wizard777]

30. I don't know about that. I've never tried to smoke any Kelloggs products.

I've also never tried pouring milk over buds. But I'll check out that natures path stuff. Ah hell, I might even try smoking some Rice Crispies too.

[DinahMoeHum]

44. A couple of links to hemp food products. . .rich in omega-3 fatty acids

www.naturespath.com
http://www.naturespath.com/products/cold_cereals#null

www.nutiva.com

[Wizard777]

68. Thanks for the info! As for the Rice Crispy's. Don't do it!

The smoke will choke you half to death and ruin your bowl. :grr:

[Zhade]

90. " I've never tried to smoke any Kelloggs products."

...

:spray:

[Cha]

71. That's pretty funny.. We have beau coup

Hemp products in our co-op..even Hemp milk that is way popular. Seems it's very nutritious, too.



http://www.worldpantry.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce/ExecMacro/livingharvest/home.d2w/report?hbtype=ppc&hbv1=google&hbv2=lhhempmilk&gclid=CPOxs4mb1ZgCFQhdswodKGYZ1g

And, I love my hemp sweater and hemp washcloth:)

[Quixote1818]

15. They will probably lose more people who smoke pot than those who

were upset by this. Kellogg probably should have thought this through a little more. One hell of a lot of people smoke pot in this country.

[Dr.Phool]

23. I don't know anybody who was upset with him.

[Cha]

72. Yeah, all my friends were sticking

up for him..funny that.

[emilyg]

43. More eat cereal.

[Quixote1818]

96. LOL! Yep, and they eat it mindlessly while staring at the wall!

Several bowls all at once!

Now that is fucking funny!

[tridim]

17. The groundswell is growing so fast..

This is starting to look a pivotal moment in America's drug history.

Dare I say it.. Our Pearl Harbor.

[Cha]

73. It's be so cool if Michael Phelps, the

Gold Medialist were its catalyst:*

[Politicalboi]

19. Yes WEED Can!

This comes from a cereal maker that has mini wheats that talk to you at work. How many bong loads did that take to come up with?

[Gregorian]

20. Marketing execs don't need drugs, m'kay.

They're naturally psychotic. You don't come up with Lucky Charms by just smoking bong hits. That's the work of seriously disturbed minds.

[Fly by night]

39. If you don't make the t-shirt, I sure will.

[tridim]

81. IMO "weed" has a negative connotation, how about "Yes We Cannabis!"

[Fly by night]

83. Even better!

[Pastiche423]

84. Either way you make it, I want one!

Or use both - the front: Yes Weed Can! The back: Yes We Cannabis!

Or vice-versa.

[tridim]

87. Damn, someone beat me to it..

http://yeswecannabis.net/

[Zhade]

92. NICE.

NT!

[rossl]

21. He should just get a sponsorship with these guys

http://www.globalhempstore.com/hemp-food/natures-path-hemp-bars.html

[onehandle]

24. The law's the law.

It doesn't matter what we think about marijuana, Kellogg is just covering its ass.

Marijuana is illegal.

[bloomington-lib]

26. The law won't change until a lot of people start bitching about

it. You think the laws against alcohol would have changed if everyone put down the bottle and started drinking milkshakes?

[tridim]

28. Not for long.

Cannabis has been legal and used as medicine for about 99.9% of human history.

[onehandle]

55. So have a lot of drugs.

Pot will never be legal.

[Zhade]

94. Your smug arrogance only makes us work harder to RElegalize.

NT!

[kath]

49. So's drunk driving. (illegal)

[Vinnie From Indy]

60. LOL!

"It doesn't matter what we think about marijuana"

Really? So we should all just shut the hell up and move along?

So I guess you would advocate ratting out your neighbors, friends and relatives for smoking weed because, after all, it is illegal.

[Cha]

75. Yeah, Subway's not covering their

ass.

[John Q. Citizen]

85. It doesn't matter what you think about drunk driving, Kellogf is just, a , well, never mind.

[Zhade]

93. Not for me it isn't.

Thank goodness for that, too, or I'd be going blind from glaucoma.

Say, segregation was once the law, too. Didn't make it right.

But we already know your hate for the facts about pot, considering you posted that complete bullshit about it causing testicular cancer. :rofl:

[TalkingDog]

25. I'm not "pro" pot. Neither am I "anti" pot. What I am is

Anti-Bad Law
Anti-Bloated Ineffectual Bureacracy
Anti-Utter Waste of Taxpayer Money that could be put to better use on programs that actually help people.
Anti-Moralistic Hypocrits
Anti-Punish A Minority Disproprtionately

And so on.

I don't smoke pot. I have no desire to get "high". That said, I do use it topically for RA associated pain. For this horrific transgression I could go to prison and lose my home and possessions.

[Cha]

76. Same here, good points..although I

did :smoke: in another life and another century..so I can relate to that part.

[lonestarnot]

27. No one had to ask me to boy

cott. :evilgrin:

[Cha]

77. I don't do Kellogg's

anyway or any mainstream products but If I did I wouldn't think twice about throwing out their hypocritical, sanctimoniuos brand.

[bloomington-lib]

29. Related Story Now the sheriff is out arresting people

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2009/02/arrests-reporte.html

[ChiciB1]

32. Heard About That Today... What A Crock Of Crap!!! Weird How They Just

can't deal with some things!!!

[LanternWaste]

31. Regardless of what one may think of

Regardless of what one may think of the economic moral or legal aspects of the story, what dramatically hits me in the irony-bone is the implication that a bunch of pot smokers organizing a protest... that oughta turn out real good.

It's just that it's a little tough for me to envision pot smokers organizing... and against munchie food at that. :rofl:

("dudes... where my scheduling spreadsheet for the protest?" "Uhhh, I dunno, we ran outa papers, so, you know, it's like...")

Now, back to your regularly scheduled righteous soliloquies about decriminalization.

[bloomington-lib]

34. Talk about righteous

There's more to discussing decriminalization than your idea of a bunch of lazy stoners getting their munchies from someone else.

[LanternWaste]

37. Yeah, yeah, yeah... I'm a horrible, horrible person

Yeah, yeah, yeah... I'm a horrible, horrible person for satirizing pot-smokers (of which, I may or may not include myself in that number). I keep forgetting that there's a few demographics out there that we just aren't allowed to poke fun at... too uncivil, I suppose. Much too undignified. Were they in the here and now, I'm sure Cervantes, Franklin and Twain would never, ever focus humor where it's not truly appreciated.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[bloomington-lib]

40. Compare yourself you whom ever you'd like

I'm just saying, what you're describing is a worn out stereotype of a pot smoker that perpetuates the idea that smokers can't organize or accomplish much. There are a lot of smokers out in the professional community that would not fit into that stereotype.

I have no problem with you poking fun. It's that you're implying talking about it is useless. At least that's how I took your last sentence.

[LanternWaste]

45. I merely took the three greatest satirists

Comparing myself? Stop projecting, kid. I merely took the three greatest satirists I know of off the top of my head to illustrate the absurdity of holding righteously onto sacred cows with a dogmatic defense in which even simply humor is seen as an subtle and nefarious attack on a lifestyle choice.

And I'm sure you're right... I should expand my circle of stonier pals to include bankers, lawyers and doctors who may take a toke before work. Problem is, my Friends Card is completely full right now, but should one open up, I'll put an index card on the bulletin board of my local bank, "Professional Stoner friends Wanted-- Must make 150k/ Year or Above Be Able to Laugh At Themselves and Understand Satire"

I made no implications-- that you made an inference of that nature is completely on you.

ed: spelling

[navarth]

51. You made no implications? Em...

"Now, back to your regularly scheduled righteous soliloquies about decriminalization."

That on top of your characterization of The Marijuana Policy Project as a bunch of stoners worried about munchies.

Maybe you think I have no sense of humor. Well I don't think it's fucking funny that people can have their lives ruined by idiotic laws like we have. So we need to fight to change them.

You could help if you like. Or you can carry on as before. Up to you.

You weren't doing too bad until you started throwing accusations of sanctimony around.

[LanternWaste]

62. It wasn't a characterization-- it was a silly joke

People always laugh about poking fun at sacred cows until one of theirs gets targeted.

It wasn't a characterization-- it was a silly joke. Last demographic in the world I'd ever think about suggestion "lighten up" to.

Some people have their lives ruined by religion-- I assume in the name of moral consistency you never, ever joke about religion either, yes ? Or maybe particular cows are more sacred than other.

Seems like there's more than enough sanctimony to go around these days...

[navarth]

65. Silly jokes are not a problem, like I said.

And I probably wouldn't have noticed your little statement at the end of your first post if you hadn't had that little run-in with the other poster.

That was when I noticed you saying

"Now, back to your regularly scheduled righteous soliloquies about decriminalization."

That's a little joke? Hmm...ok, if you say so. And if you want to characterize me as having sacred cows or whatever, go ahead.

Sometimes joking has to be done the proper way or it ain't funny, I guess. Do what you want, I'm done.

[LanternWaste]

66. Yup. It's a little joke.

Yup. It's a little joke. Read into it whatever better validates you...

:eyes:

[navarth]

67. see that's what I mean

"....whatever better 'validates' me"??

There's been ample opportunity for this to end in a civil manner. How about it?

[LanternWaste]

82. Seems to me as though...

Seems to me as though the back-handed compliments have been fired from all directions...

[Cha]

80. Bad Bad Bad..

:rofl::smoke::rofl:

[Psephos]

74. lol - at least I appreciated your satire

even if it isn't necessarily destined for posterity ;)

you're so right about that peculiar human tendency to delight in the goring of oxen belonging to others...and then suddenly develop a paper-thin skin when the ox is one's own

:smoke:

[Cha]

79. ..

:rofl::smoke::rofl::smoke::rofl:

[NM Independent]

57. You obviously don't know any actual "potheads."

Potheads aren't always lazy, nor are they always spacy the way you describe.

Once they build up a tolerance, you'd be hard pressed to even determine whether they're high or not. During a phase many years ago I was pretty much always baked, and the people I worked with/for never had a clue. It's easy to hide if you know how. I never had a problem being completely functional, and I was actually considered an overacheiver.

I'm not alone in this. However, people that use rarely just might laugh at anything and eat everything in sight.

[LanternWaste]

63. Yeah... I obviously know no potheads...

Yeah... none of my friends are pot smokers... :eyes:
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[nebenaube]

64. and that...

is the only reason it is still illegal...

[Cha]

78. It's pure freakin'

irony that wouldn't have been imagined back in the day:rofl:

[John Q. Citizen]

86. where were you while we passed medical mj laws in 16 states? At the bar?

[Zhade]

95. For fuck's sake, educate yourself. IT DOESN'T MAKE EVERYONE LAZY.

One would think you've never even MET a smoker.

One word for you; sativa.

Once you've learned what that is, then you'll actually know what you're talking about.

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

33. what gets me is = isn't there a video somewhere showing Governor Arnold

smoking a jay? Where is the outrage, who is trying to arrest him....

[Think82]

47. HAPPY BIRTHDAY :

This video is hysterical

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Zdm-bCfyyI

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

50. Thanks!

bookmarking and going to send it on......

[Catamount]

38. N/T k&r

:crazy: :kick:

[quidam56]

48. California WAKE UP ! Legalize and tax it.

[navarth]

52. The Marijuana Policy Project is correct

And I will boycott Kellogg's, even thought they're in my state.

[rcrush]

53. Does Kellogs really have a recipe for "Dessert Nachos"? Like they said on SNL

Oh the irony! Did I spell Dessert right?

[JI7]

54. if Phelps played one of the more popular sports in America

this wouldn't have been an issue.

[MidwestTransplant]

56. How much business do they stand to loose from people satisfying their munchies?

[TEmperorHasNoClothes]

61. Pot should be legal anyway- down with kellogs

[Cha]

69. Oh wow! Hypocricy thy name is Kellogg!

I did not know Michael Phellps had a DUI before he was endorsed by Kellogg..this makes the dropping much more lame.

Subway's going for it~

[Zhade]

88. Nice. It's a ridiculous move on Kellogg's part -- all he did was smoke a proven-beneficial herb.

NT!