Neal Pollack - "Marijuana Addiction and Legal Weed"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

Yoga, Health & Fitness, Yogateacher, Alternative Health, Yogaindustry, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

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🗓️ 29 June 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Neal Pollack, aka “The Greatest Living American Writer” and author of Pothead: My Life as a Marijuana Addict in the Age of Legal Weed, talks with J about cannabis and addressing addiction issues. They discuss shared history from an earlier time in the yoga world, struggles Neal explores in his book and how marijuana may not always be as safe as advertised, underlying issues at play in addiction, what it took to make the necessary changes and find a better direction, and the honesty and fortitude essential to simply being a good person.

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0:00.0	All right. Here we are. This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast. My name is Jay Brown.
0:19.1	If you're new around here, welcome, welcome. Everyone else, what's up?
0:25.6	How is everyone doing? Are we okay? I don't know. I don't know if we're okay. I sure hope so.
0:33.9	Things are confusing as ever, aren't they? And I got to be honest with you i am coming to you this week
0:42.0	through a very thin like a razor thin window of possibility you see an hour or so ago i was experiencing a level of pain that I didn't think would allow me to record.
1:01.3	I just thought, oh my God, I can't be in this much pain and record the intro this week.
1:08.0	There's no way I can do it.
1:14.8	And, you know, there's a lot of different kinds of pain that I can deal with, you know, back pain, neck pain, hip pain, that kind of stuff. I've had
1:22.2	lots of different kinds of pain in my body, and I have a pretty high tolerance for pain I think it's really taking me a long
1:30.0	time to learn how to recognize pain and respect it and I really do but there's one kind of pain
1:38.6	that I really can't deal with which is tooth and gum pain see, I have an infection in one of my teeth,
1:47.6	and that kind of pain just, it hobbles me. I can't deal. And, you know, it's been a long time
1:56.8	coming. I have these two teeth that have crowns on them that were put on 20 years ago.
2:03.6	I was in my early 20s. I didn't know what the hell I was doing. And I had a shoddy dentist that I went to.
2:09.2	He was really sketchy and some part of me knew that what he was doing was not right.
2:15.6	And I had that confirmed years later by another dentist who was like,
2:18.5	what did somebody do in here? And like, so I've always known that these two teeth were problems.
2:25.6	And I've been kind of fending them off and we've done lots of things to try to preserve the teeth for as
2:30.7	long as we could. And, you know, I have a suspicion that maybe it's possible that
2:36.2	some of the chronic pain that I've had in my body could be because of infection in my gums.
2:42.3	There's certainly some research that shows that. So I think I've just been putting it off because,
2:49.5	you know, it's a whole bunch of money I don't really have.
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