Steve Austin Using Marijuana As Substitute For Alcohol

As reported earlier, Steve Austin has given up alcohol and how he feels better because of it. On The Stone Cold podcast, he would mention how after quitting alcohol, he tried using medicinal marijuana as a substitute, but it didn’t really help him. He also mentioned how he didn’t like it in the pat either. This is what he said:

“The times I had tried to smoke dope way back in the day, I didn’t like it because dope just always made me feel kind of dumb and when I’d say something, I’d think, ‘does that sound stupid or not?’

“It just brought me down, so dope never was my thing,”

“I was an alcohol guy. I liked whiskey, tequila, vodka, beer. I could go on and on.”

He would then talk about a camping trip with his wife and how the marijuana made him paranoid.

“On our camping trip, when Kristin and I pulled over, we do our thing. She sets up the inside of the camper. I hook up the electricity, the sewer, the water. I do all the outdoor stuff, so I figure, ‘while I’m setting all of my s—t up, I can take a couple of tokes off of this joint and just kind of have a buzz while I’m setting everything up.’ And in that way, I’m not pounding the alcohol down,” he said. “So I got this one f—ing medicinal marijuana cigarette, a joint if you will, in a prescription bottle container and it was in the bathroom of our RV. One f—ing joint! One skinny f—ing joint and that motherf—er smelled up the whole goddamn inside of that camper!

“And all-of-a-sudden, we’re coming up on Sierra Blanca and I’m figuring, ‘aw, s—t! They’re running those Belgian Malinois over there. Yeah, and those dogs are smelling tires, and trunks, and license plates, and all kinds of stuff. And I’m sitting there thinking, ‘boy, I’ve got that white-knuckle fever going on my damn steering wheel.’ And I’m thinking, ‘man, here I am, retired from the [pro] wrestling business, a global icon and a national treasure, and I’m about to get busted for f—ing one joint because I wanted to try out a goddamn marijuana cigarette, so I could get away from the booze!'”