You Can Get Addicted to Weed. It Almost Killed Him | "I Was Smoking Lint Off the Carpet to Get High"
You Can Get Addicted to Weed. It Almost Killed Him | "I Was Smoking Lint Off the Carpet to Get High"  
Podcast: Recovering Out Loud
Published On: Tue Jun 02 2026
Description: Everyone says weed isn't addictive. Alex is eight years sober and almost didn't make it out.This is the first time he's told the whole thing start to finish. We get into the last 30 days of his using — when he was so deep he couldn't even get high anymore, just chasing a feeling that was already gone. He takes us to his last day: an ice storm, a long drive for weed that wasn't there, and waking up passed out half in a toilet bowl, ribs smashed, realizing how close it got.The part that stuck with me is what came after the drugs stopped: "The war on drugs is over. Now it's the war on self." We talk about the stuff nobody warns you about in long sobriety — isolation that feels safe, cross-addiction (food, work, gaming), men white-knuckling their mental health, and why "it's just weed" is the sentence he trusts the least.If you've ever wondered whether weed can really be a problem — or you're years in and still fighting yourself — this one's for you.What we get into:Why he couldn't get high no matter how much he usedThe one question his uncle asked that he couldn't lie his way out ofIsolation as a "safe place" — and what it costsGetting sober before legalization, and why he thinks that saved himThe difference between quitting the drug and quitting the war on yourselfRecovering Out Loud is peer-led recovery media built on lived experience — real stories of addiction and sobriety. No clinical voice, no guru energy.