How do you know that he smokes weed everyday? I don’t doubt it, just wondering how you know.
There's a new documentary on you tube, called something like "The Barn". Before he starts practicing with the band he walks over to the stage and says he needs a smoke and fires up a joint. That tells me he's probably a regular smoker.
Not sure where I first saw it. I read a lot. Probably was somewhere in the innernets or in the NYT.
He tells the New York Times, “I did it for 40 years. Now I want to see what it’s like to not do it. It’s just a different perspective.”
https://torontosun.com/2012/09/19/neil-young-gives-up-drugs-and-booze
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/11/arts/music/neil-young-citizenship-marijuana.html
Neil Young has been sober for a year after drinking and smoking pot for decades, he reveals in a new profile in the New York Times. During a recent interview at his sprawling home in the redwood forest south of San Francisco, Young speaks about writing his upcoming autobiography, Waging Heavy Peace, the many obsessions that have fueled his career and his decision to get clean.
“I did it for 40 years,” he says. “Now I want to see what it’s like to not do it. It’s just a different perspective.”
In the book, he elaborates: “The straighter I am, the more alert I am, the less I know myself and the harder it is to recognize myself. I need a little grounding in something and I am looking for it everywhere.”
Yet the book – written despite Young’s onetime declaration that he would never write a memoir – features some requisite tales of rock & roll excess. The 66-year-old recalls being arrested for drugs with Eric Clapton and Stephen Stills, and he jokes about David Crosby’s legendary stash: “I still remember ‘the mighty Cros’ visiting the ranch in his van. That van was a rolling laboratory that made Jack Casady’s briefcase look like chicken feed. Forget I said that! Was my mike on?”
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/neil-young-opens-up-about-sobriety-204497/