You ain't sober till you're sober.

I'm recording this video in a part of
the world where marijuana is legal and if there's any moral that want to put to this story well we have a saying in English it ain't over till it's over you ain't sober until you're sober if you say you quit drugs I've seen so many people claim this I've seen Tana mojo say a million times that she quit drugs she didn't do drugs except of course marijuana and alcohol well look at her life it may be that all she uses is marijuana alcohol nicotine and caffeine that may be she may be telling the truth from her perspective she doesn't use drugs but she's not sober and a lot of us in the vegan demi-monde have seen the increasingly gruesome spectacle of the decline and self-destruction of Charles Marlow Charles Marlow used to be my friend a long long time ago and he told me things personally that he'd never stated on YouTube we're never sated up to that point he told me things about his personal life he told me things about his hopes and dreams and it was directly because of the influence of my channel because of one particular video on my channel that he got his act together and made an application to go back to school to go to college he had a lot of advantages in doing that too his father was a college professor so he really had someone who could help him with the paperwork he got himself back into college he got himself an internship in radio and I remember saying to him at the time said well if this is what you want to do if you want to go into broadcasting at least this is one of the fields where people might be willing to overlook the fact that you used to be a heroin addict you used to be a cocaine addict and so on because so many people in the entertainment of broadcasting world have some kind of history with our drugs that he might be able to get ahead and I don't know years later at least a year later he dropped out of that program he dropped out of college he'd got himself an apartment in Los Angeles but briefly because fame here on YouTube is fleeting briefly he had an income of about $3,000 a month he had a talent agent he had some people working for him he had an income from both live-streaming and and YouTube and he felt he was on top of the world and during that time he swore even if he was lying he swore that he was clean he swore that he wasn't using drugs and what did he mean by that he meant that he was using nicotine caffeine marijuana alcohol and some performance-enhancing drugs testosterone at one point anavar which is a steroid maybe some other bodybuilding drugs too and you know it was obvious to everyone that he was high but I don't think any of us are in a position to say that he couldn't be that high on the combination of drugs he was openly admitting he was taking I mean even now oh oh right and I'm forgetting at various times he was on different drugs legal drugs prescription drugs to help him cope with the legacy of his addiction so currently he states that he's on suboxone and those drugs she was on suboxone he was on wellbutrin you're not sober unless you're 100% sober and it's a great evil in our society that marijuana is being normalized in this way it's true many of the problems with marijuana are even worse with alcohol depends how you make that comparison depends on your personal set of values and priorities in life that here is not my point you can see there are people struggling with sobriety including Cheeta including ten Amazo including many people you probably know in your own life and the excuse that being high on marijuana that using marijuana is somehow not using drugs that is somehow not a real drug whether it's illegal or illegal whether it's legal or illegal in your jurisdiction this is an excuse that in a subtle and pervasive way you know does destroy people's lives and you know there's something you can do you may feel powerless watching this video you may feel powerless if you go now and click on vegan cheetahs recent videos showing ya Matt I hope it's rock bottom I don't know how much lower you can go showing the extent to which his life has now been destroyed once again or whatever you want to say you may feel hopeless and you may feel powerless but I want to tell you something you can do you you can live sober and you can be loud about it you can really broadcast it you can really talk about what it means to live clean and sober the best comparison I can think of is the role of athletes those few athletes even if there are minority who don't use steroids who don't use performance-enhancing drugs where it's really important for them to talk about what it is to live in the discipline of that sport what they can and can't accomplish even if they're contrasting maybe times times their life when they did use steroids and when they did if the people who are clean and sober remain silent then we find ourselves slipping further and further into a culture that celebrates being in a constant state of heedlessness in a constant state of self-indulgence in a constant state of drug addled misery that people mistake for happiness yeah I have nothing else to say guys you know 2500 years ago Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living and you know people would rather feel nothing than feel unhappy and that's why it seems they're so easily addicted to drugs that fundamentally are painkillers drugs that fundamentally provide nothing more positive in your life than a kind of numbness then a kind of distraction from dealing with who you really are