Brynne’s Reviews > Pothead: My Life as a Marijuana Addict in the Age of Legal Weed > Status Update

“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.”