Bloomberg – The first time I sensed the alarming change in my soul was when I caught myself, five minutes after the market open, reaching for a reefer.

Trust me, I didn’t amass legacy wealth (underestimated by Forbes magazine in the high eight figures) by smoking weed during trading hours. Exhaling that first hit I thought and might even have moaned aloud: “Whoa, dude! Why are you even running a hedge fund?” The markets were collapsing, and so was my passion.

Bloomberg subscribers have come to know me as a seriously successful hedge-fund manager who tries to serve society in more ways than one. Not only have I made as much money as possible, and proven the natural inferiority of the little rich-kid idiots from Harvard and Yale who went to work for Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. I have also freely shared my thoughts and opinions with you.

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