Whether they're dead, crazy, poor, on drugs, or homophobes, which is so much of the time. The girls at the shelter where I lived and was volunteering, they're there because of their families. It's problems in individual families that lead to homelessness. What are some problems that you see with the shelter system? I thought I was superior to twelve-stepping and that it'd be a bunch of dorks, losers, etc, but what I found was great fellowship. I was not committed enough to quitting smoking to see it through. That's what the twelve-step program really is. I tried quitting smoking by going to marijuana anonymous and I was pleasantly surprised by how awesome the program is, especially if you're a storyteller or somebody who believes that talk therapy, this thing that really saved my life, is valuable. Then I have a whopping panic attack and it's so not fun and I said, "I'm never doing it again." That's my non-twelve-step saga. I still have cravings and have occasionally given into them and smoked a little bit. It started to make my heart race, give me panic attacks, and it was like my body had decided it had enough, even though my mind was like, "No! I need it. I was baking brownies because God forbid I should go without THC for a few days. What finally happened is that I got sick and literally couldn't get the smoke into my body. It's so much and so hard on one's ageing body and mind.
Part of the problem was that I never really hit a bottom, so I didn't see the need to stop smoking three joints a day. A lot of people said, "You were the most productive pothead I ever met." And, it's true, I was extremely productive. What was the reason for you curtailing your pot use? Did you do use a twelve-step program?Īfter twenty years of waking and baking and cartons and cartons of Visine, breathe mints, and all that stuff. Now you might find me half a glass into some red wine and I'll be completely drunk and ridiculous and thinking I'm bring outrageous. That other stuff started to taper off after college except for pot smoking, which I held very near and dear into my early to mid thirties and only recently gave up. I quit cocaine in high school, but I still did ecstasy, got drunk, sucked my thumb, and smoked a lot of pot through out college. Once you started college, did you continue the drug habits you developed in high school or did they taper off? but to me, story telling and listening to other people's stories is incredibly important." "If a person does't feel a great need for reading, then it's just not important to them. But if you want to make conversation with her now, you better be a fan of reality TV or an avid reader. For fifteen-year-old Janice Erlbaum, this was everyday life. And I find people who have bought my book to be even sexier." Drinking, drugging, casual sex, and living at a group home.
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