Posted on 10/08/2024 11:16:43 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Ozzy Osbourne recently confessed that he's been indulging in the sweet leaf after decades of widely reported drug abuse and subsequent attempts at sobriety.
On a September installment of The Madhouse Chronicles, Osbourne's new online talk show with Billy Idol guitarist Billy Morrison, both cohosts discussed their long, tumultuous histories with drugs. Osbourne, who has been reportedly substance-free for much of the past decade, admitted that these days he is "happier, but I'm not completely sober. I use a bit of marijuana from time to time."
The 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee attributed his abstinence from harder drugs to his wife and manager, Sharon Osbourne. "I'm lucky: My wife kicked my butt all the time. She would fucking make life so difficult," he said. "Even the marijuana, she'll fucking find it and get rid of it."
Ozzy Osbourne Is Not a Believer in Microdosing
Morrison asked Osbourne if he'd had any experience with microdosing drugs, a process by which some of his friends and collaborators swear. Osbourne was not convinced of its utility, arguing that microdosing was simply "lighting the fuse" for addicts like himself.
"I went to a doctor recently 'cause somebody I know very well started doing this ketamine," Osbourne said. "He put a tiny bit in me, but that was enough to spark me. That feeling, that thing came back, that weight in my brain, waiting for somebody to go, 'Bing.'"
Ozzy Osbourne Says Drugs 'Will Bite You in the Balls'
Osbourne and Morrison both noted that Osbourne's first No. 1 album in the U.S., Black Sabbath's 13, was the first album he made while completely sober. Osbourne said drugs would ultimately zap his creativity and memory, and he shared words of encouragement for others struggling to quit.
"The message is: If you're out there and you're using dope and you want to get off, there's plenty of help," he said. "A.A. [Alcoholics Anonymous] is a 12-step program. It got me sorted out to a certain degree. I don't go to meetings myself anymore. Maybe I should, I don't know."
He ended the episode on a more acerbic note. "If you're out there [using drugs] and you're having the blast of your life, my hat goes off to you," he said. "But I guarantee — and I don't give a **** who it is — it will bite you in the balls."
Is it possible his wife has been trying to poison him since the 80’s to inherit his money, but he hasn’t died?
Lol he probably smokes weed all day long. At his age why not??
He may sound Paranoid but I think he’s an Ordinary Man.
Is there a difference between that and a coma?
Has he ever been sober?
nobody cares
Ronnie James Dio was the best singer Black Sabbath ever had hands down..
Good question. I can say that I’ve never bitten the head of a mammal.
I have no way of knowing that.
“Is it possible his wife has been trying to poison him since the 80’s”
With all the stuff he has taken over the years poison probably can’t survive in his body. :D
How could anyone tell?
Black Sabbath live in 1970 - Paranoid. Think about how radical this was at the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYpJAqX662M
Geez the crowd from the ‘70s and the ‘80s is having problems who would have thunk
I did not know he was still alive, and I don’t care.
Nah, Ozzy is a gravy train that would immediately end upon his death.
Neither am I, Ozzy.
“Black Sabbath live in 1970”
This song marked a seismic shift in rock music. There isn’t anything nice about it like so many Beatles’ songs. It’s original, fast, tight and bad ass.
For many young, impressionable musicians, this was their Elvis Presley-on-the-Ed-Sullivan-Show-moment. Defining.
Thanks for the video.
Exactly, why should we care if he is sober, high, or dead?
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