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Jeremy Clarke: I'm a fake. The cannabis tells me so

Not once in the past ten years have I told the truth without calculating the capital that came with it

30 November 2013

9:00 AM

30 November 2013

9:00 AM

Can it be that the one single agreeable thing about getting old is that one loses one’s pot paranoia? No.

I thought I was going to get away with it, but here it came again like a creeping fog: the terrible introspection, the loss of identity, the psychic disintegration, the paranoid delusions.

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