Status Updates From Pothead: My Life as a Marij...

Man lost all my respect when he said u smoke it like crack. Cmon dude - tell me you haven't smoked pot without tell me u haven't smoked pot

His family never a high priority, his ego and selfish demands and woe is me attitude are his only priorities. I appreciate and acknowledge addiction, challenges faced and the impact on those around him but in this example of addiction, this man makes excuses throughout. Respect that his wife stuck by him but why?! The woman and her son deserved better.

Possibly one of the most selfish men I’ve ever listened to.For years he dismissed the values of having a wife and a son, the happiness and joy right in front of him doesn’t even factor.

“I packed a bowl, went out to the porch, and inhaled a lungful of freedom. And then I took another.”

Pollack does an effective job illustrating the pathos behind his addition- how the substance he spent a lifetime associating with “freedom” eventually turned into the opposite, becoming a burdensome and insatiable obsession

“I hung out in the kitchen with strangers on the off chance they’d tell me I was awesome. For me, that was the whole point of being a writer.”