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    Robin Abcarian: Is 'California sober' a real thing, or just an excuse to keep getting high?

    It's not clear who coined the term "California sober." Or even, really, exactly what it means. In 2019, the journalist Michelle Lhooq wrote in Vice that she'd given up most recreational drugs except pot and psychedelics and considered herself "Cali sober." In 2021, the pop star Demi Lovato, whose highly publicized 2018 heroin and fentanyl overdose caused three strokes and a heart attack and ...
    by Robin Abcarian, Los Angeles Times Nov 10, 2022 3 minutes
    Aaron Carter on May 13, 2017 in Carson, California.

    It's not clear who coined the term "California sober." Or even, really, exactly what it means.

    In 2019, the journalist Michelle Lhooq wrote in Vice that she'd given up most recreational drugs except pot and psychedelics and considered herself "Cali sober."

    In 2021, the pop star Demi Lovato, whose highly publicized 2018 heroin and fentanyl overdose caused three strokes and a heart attack and left her with lingering physical problems, released a song called "California Sober."

    "Cashin' in my chips for forgiveness / Trading in my shame for perspective

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