Ozzy Osbourne lately confessed that he is been indulging within the candy leaf after many years of extensively reported drug abuse and subsequent makes an attempt at sobriety.

On a September installment of The Madhouse Chronicles, Osbourne’s new on-line discuss present with Billy Idol guitarist Billy Morrison, each cohosts mentioned their lengthy, tumultuous histories with medicine. Osbourne, who has been reportedly substance-free for a lot of the previous decade, admitted that nowadays he’s “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 more durable medicine to his spouse and supervisor, Sharon Osbourne. “I’m lucky: My wife kicked my butt all the time. She would fucking make life so difficult,” he stated. “Even the marijuana, she’ll fucking find it and get rid of it.”

Ozzy Osbourne Is Not a Believer in Microdosing

Morrison requested Osbourne if he’d had any expertise with microdosing medicine, a course of by which a few of his mates and collaborators swear. Osbourne was not satisfied of its utility, arguing that microdosing was merely “lighting the fuse” for addicts like himself.

“I went to a doctor recently ’cause somebody I know very well started doing this ketamine,” Osbourne stated. “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.’”

He then added, pointedly: “They don’t make smack-lite.”

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Ozzy Osbourne Says Drugs ‘Will Bite You within the Balls’

Osbourne and Morrison each famous that Osbourne’s first No. 1 album within the U.S., Black Sabbath’s 13, was the primary album he made whereas fully sober. Osbourne stated medicine would in the end zap his creativity and reminiscence, and he shared phrases of encouragement for others struggling to give up.

“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 stated. “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 extra acerbic word. “If you’re out there [using drugs] and you’re having the blast of your life, my hat goes off to you,” he stated. “But I guarantee — and I don’t give a fuck who it is — it will bite you in the balls.”