This document discusses the story of Todd Marinovich, a former American football quarterback. [1] Marinovich was guided from childhood to be the greatest football player ever but struggled with drug and alcohol abuse. [2] He began using marijuana in college and later moved on to harder drugs as he searched for fulfillment and to fill an emptiness from his strict upbringing. [3] The document warns that using drugs is no replacement for inner love and advocates developing self-love through slower, inner growth rather than outer achievements.

1. Pot & Football
January 9, 2013
Using pot to improve your love life is like lighting a match to look into
the gas tank! Maybe a bit of an exaggeration, but marijuana isnʼt for
improving oneʼs love life, or life in general barring use for doctor
prescribed medical pain use. We can only hope that ʻlegalizationʼ
recently will be a good decision and solve more problems than it
creates.
In the late ʼ80ʼs, early 90ʼs word was the ʻworldʼs greatest athleteʼ was just coming into
his own. In Southern California, a tall, lanky red head became national news that he had
been guided from birth by his father to be nothing less than the greatest
football player ever. His name is Todd Marinovich. He was the #1 high school
football player, and touted as the ʻRobo Quarterbackʼ. Every moment of his
life had been choreographed to be this ʻSupermanʼ of football. He led his
college of choice to national championships, but word began leaking that all
was not well. He had become a constant pot smoker that crossed the line
into ʻabusiveʼ.
Off the field, Marinovich had found a way to ruin himself even more so
during his first year of spectacular pro football experience. He began
feeding an emotional, spiritual emptiness that his rigorous training from
childhood left out. The ʻRobo Quarterbackʼ was a real human who
needed that inner high, or love missing from major discipline since
childhood. He found it in smoking pot, but as time ʻrolled onʼ, that didnʼt
do it enough. He made attempts to retrieve his status as a ʻfootball godʼ, but
continued onto more drugs from cocaine, LSD, and finally after no football team
wanted him, playing with a schlock band strung out on heroin - always looking to fill
the ʻemptinessʼ within that was left vacant throughout his youth. As of this writing he is
an aged 43, near bald compared to the fiery, long red haired ʻmercury of the football
fieldʼ.
Point is, nothing - nothing replaces the inner love that is searched for by using the
abuse of alcohol, or anything that alters the perception of life. From the ʻmountain topʼ to
fighting for the scraps of memories from the mountain top, life and love cheated for
fame, or material gain has itʼs karma in drugging yourself while hoping to regain the
highʼs of the outer world. Whether it is pot or any drug to come to a high,
itʼs a ʻbufferʼ to the real world as you gradually lose life and loveʼs focus.
Instead of finding ways to ruin your life, take the slower route to climb up
the inner mountain.
Yesss Self Love Center
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