“I use a bit of marijuana from time to time” – Ozzy Osbourne admits of still not being completely sober

After decades of highly publicized drug usage and subsequent attempts at sobriety, Ozzy Osbourne has admitted to using the sweet leaf. In a September episode of Osbourne‘s new internet talk show, The Madhouse Chronicles, co-hosts Osbourne and Billy Morrison, guitarist for Billy Idol, talked about their lengthy and turbulent drug history. According to reports, Osbourne has abstained from drugs for the majority of the previous ten years. He credited Sharon Osbourne, his manager and wife, with helping him avoid harder drugs.

These days I am happier, but I’m not completely sober. I use a bit of marijuana from time to time. I’m lucky: My wife kicked my butt all the time. She would fucking make life so difficult,” he said. “Even the marijuana, she’ll fucking find it and get rid of it.

Osbourne was questioned by Morrison if he had any prior experience with microdosing drugs, a technique that some of his associates and acquaintances swear by. Osbourne claimed that microdosing was only “lighting the fuse” for addicts like himself, and he was not persuaded of its usefulness.

I went to a doctor recently ’cause somebody I know very well started doing this ketamine. 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.’ They don’t make smack-lite.

Osbourne‘s first No. 1 album in the United States, Black Sabbath‘s 13, was the first album he produced while totally sober, according to both Osbourne and Morrison. Osbourne offered words of encouragement to those who were having trouble quitting, stating that drugs would eventually sap his creativity and memory.

The message is: If you’re out there and you’re using dope and you want to get off, there’s plenty of help. 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. If you’re out there [using drugs] and you’re having the blast of your life, my hat goes off to you,” he said. “But I guarantee — and I don’t give a fuck who it is — it will bite you in the balls.