
Pothead
My Life as a Marijuana Addict in the Age of Legal Weed
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Tim Paige
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Neal Pollack
Beginning innocently enough in his 20s, Neal Pollack discovers that pot makes everything - food, music, sex - better. Getting married, having a kid, and enjoying professional success didn't tamp down Pollack's addiction. As cannabis grew stronger and more widely available, Pollack's dependence was shadowed by the expansion and acceptance of the marijuana Big Business.
By 2014, Neal was a correspondent for a national marijuana newspaper, mostly because it meant free pot. Diving into the wild, wicked world of weed with both lungs, Pollack proceeds to smoke, vape, and eat his way to oblivion, leading to terrible public meltdowns and other embarrassing behavior. After his mother dies in 2017, he spirals out of control, finally hitting rock bottom during a reckless two-day gambling and drug-filled binge, culminating in a public crack-up at the World Series in Dodger Stadium. Three weeks later, he quit.
Sober after joining a 12-step program, Neal outed himself publicly as a marijuana addict in a 2018 New York Times op-ed piece, leading to his decision to document his addiction experience as a cautionary tale for the millions of recreational users in the hazy age of legalized marijuana.
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I couldn’t wait for the end of the story just so I didn’t have to hear the word “hork” again.
Only redeeming quality was the narrator’s voice
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Relatable
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So FUNNY!
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Thanks for sharing
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You are not going to like the author,but that is the point.
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4.5 I disagree with bad reviews
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Relatable experiences
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What we need
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“Maybe I’ll relate to someone that could be a dad at my kid’s school.”
WRONG
The stakes never felt high. I was never worried he’d lose his wife, kids, job.
His well-told history of pot use, and when/how he got it and used it, the lengths he went to—all great detail.
But I felt no real sense of healing, full acceptance, a clear plan for lifelong recovery.
This is the only addiction memoir that did not show me, as much as tell me, that life was spinning out of control.
The writing is too good to believe that these experiences weren’t incredibly painful, but the feelings are never present in the retelling. 
Mr. Pollack they not have been ready to relive them on the page. That’s a fairly honest commentary on how difficult it is to let go of shame. Or acknowledge hubris.
The narrator is great at landing the dark comedic nuance. I laughed a lot. It made me really want weed. By the end of the book I was already on my way to a dispensary. I don’t think that was the author’s intent.
I look forward to a next-edition.
Finally! A groundbreaking memoir that exposes the the silent struggles of successful privileged white guy addicts.
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real
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