Wrestling With The Monkey
October, 1984
My friend Riggs slunk out of the Sixties, like me, with a nice little marijuana habit as part of his baggage, and though he has always considered it a fairly benign addiction, he's been forced lately to think it through in tougher, more particular terms.His ex-wife called him to say that their 16-year-old son was smoking it pretty heavily and was generally stoned much too much of the time. She wanted to know if he wouldn't please talk to the kid on his next visit, maybe straighten him out a litt...