Bode Miller Said It Was His Friend's Weed. The Police Report Said 4.1 Grams of Mushrooms.

Bode Miller spent his whole career skiing like he had nothing to lose. Six Olympic medals, two World Cup overall titles, a long highlight reel of him somersaulting down mountains. Turns out that energy carries over to a traffic stop in eastern Idaho.

The short version: a pair of misdemeanor drug charges against the 48-year-old skiing legend are being dropped, his attorney said Wednesday. The longer version, the one with the white dispensary bag in it, is a lot more interesting.

What Miller said happened

Miller was arrested June 6 in eastern Idaho and pleaded not guilty the following week to possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia, according to court records reported by the Associated Press.

His telling, posted to Instagram, is tidy. He got pulled over after accelerating to pass a vehicle on the highway. A friend riding with him had a small amount of cannabis and a cannabis pipe, which Miller said he didn't know about.

"We fully cooperated with the officer. I am hopeful the misdemeanor charges will be dropped once the facts are reviewed."

Clean. Reasonable. The kind of statement a publicist signs off on before lunch.

What the police report said happened

Here is where the two stories stop matching. According to a probable cause statement from Fremont County Sheriff's Deputy Jacob Hurt, cited by the AP, the deputy found Miller with a white dispensary bag containing 4.1 grams of psilocybin mushrooms.

So Miller's post is about his friend's weed. The charging document is about mushrooms in Miller's own bag. Those are two different stories, and only one of them comes with a deputy's signature.

To be fair, that 4.1 grams is what the deputy alleged, not a proven fact, and Miller pleaded not guilty. But it does explain why "my buddy had a pipe" felt like it was carrying some weight.

And now, the part where it all goes away

On Wednesday his attorney, Jeromy Stafford, told ABC News that "no drugs were found on Bode's person," and that he had spoken with Fremont County prosecutor Lindsey Blake, who "agreed to dismiss all charges against Bode Miller."

Read that lawyer sentence closely. "No drugs were found on Bode's person" is doing something very specific. A bag in a car is not technically on anyone's person. That is the kind of precise little gap attorneys get paid to find, and it is apparently enough to make the whole thing disappear before it ever reaches a trial.

Why mushrooms, why Idaho, why now

The backdrop matters. Idaho has some of the strictest drug laws in the country, which is the bad-luck part of getting pulled over there specifically. Colorado and Oregon have both legalized psilocybin for therapeutic use, and in April President Trump signed an executive order pushing federal agencies to speed up psychedelics research, per the AP. Mushrooms are having a wellness moment everywhere except, apparently, the stretch of highway Miller was driving on.

None of that changes the law in Idaho. It just means a guy famous for high-risk choices allegedly carried an increasingly fashionable substance through one of the worst possible states to do it.

The Bode Miller of it all

This is the same skier who hooked an arm on a gate at the 2015 world championships in Beaver Creek, lost his skis, somersaulted down the slope, got back up, clicked back in, and waved to the crowd on his way down. Six Olympic medals, including super-combined gold at the 2010 Vancouver Games. Thirty-three World Cup wins. The man has never once done cautious.

Which is what makes the ending so funny. A career built on spectacular wipeouts, and the Idaho mushroom saga wraps up quietly: no trial, no conviction, a carefully worded statement, charges gone. By Bode Miller standards, that is the most controlled run of his life.