Independent Reading Entry 11

Kiedis, Anthony
Scar Tissue

He has started on his later childhood once he has moved to California with his dad. His dad is a very well known man around the town. Partly because he is always at the VIP table at the club scene with rock stars and movie stars and partly because he sells cocaine and many, many other drugs. Every drug in the book he is selling. In fact, whenever he would make trips up to visit his son in Michigan his son would get so excited and never knew until around age 13 that those trips were actually large scale marijuana transporting runs. This lifestyle rubbed off heavily onto Anthony and before long he was completely enveloped in it.

He had become a habitual marijuana smoker around age 11 but the first time he had gotten high was at age 5 when his dad blew marijuana smoke in his face. He and his friends would always raid his dad's stash and he would always be kept up til six in the morning on school nights when his dad would refuse to make his friends leave. He would end up taking qualudes and doing cocaine and one time around age 13, heroine. His childhood was incredibly fast paced and it caught up with him eventually.