You Can Get Addicted to Weed. It Almost Killed Him | "I Was Smoking Lint Off the Carpet to Get High"
Everyone says weed isn't addictive. Alex is eight years sober and almost didn't make it out.
This is the first time he's told the whole thing start to finish. We get into the last 30 days of his using — when he was so deep he couldn't even get high anymore, just chasing a feeling that was already gone. He takes us to his last day: an ice storm, a long drive for weed that wasn't there, and waking up passed out half in a toilet bowl, ribs smashed, realizing how close it got.
The part that stuck with me is what came after the drugs stopped: "The war on drugs is over. Now it's the war on self."…
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