Paul Walter Hauser
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I had that with marijuana.
That was part of the reason I got sober is I was like โ I got my high high and my high high, and then I was like, oh, this isn't enough.
Wherever I'm at right now kind of feels like I went back to the bottom of the barrel.
I need to climb up in the highness, and it was like โ
Then people are giving me wax and they're putting wax on a bong.
Suddenly you're like smoking weed, but you have a whole nother substance.
You've sort of given a veneer of acidity to, and now your brain goes from thinking a funny thought for a movie idea to like mush.
You kind of just don't know if you're a human or not.
Like that's a, it's not a good place to cast.
I got sober because of alcohol, marijuana, and pornography.
I just decided all three were toxic to me being the best version of myself.
And getting rid of that while entering therapy and getting on Zoloft, it's like it changed my entire chemical system.
I kind of underwent it.
three to nine months of just, like, undoing, you know, decades of shit.
It was crazy.
Yeah, yeah.
There's so many people not telling the truth in the world that I prefer to tell the truth all the time and then face whatever mild consequence.
And I would agree with that mostly.
The only thing I would throw in is the idea of when I entered this program and got sober, this guy said to me this great advice that I'm sure was passed down from generations of dudes trying to clean themselves up.
He said, before you say something or tweet something, whatever, email, he's like,