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How do you deal with failure?

I imagine everybody who writes professionally has written a dud. What was that process like, and how did you recover professionally and learn from the critics? In the same vein, have you ever written something that you still like, but was panned at the time?

Can Pot be addictive? I know a guy who's friends with a guy who can't quit.

He says things like "This is the last time" or "next week I'm done", but never actually quits. Meanwhile, his life is slowly draining into the gutter. Is there any evidence that pot can be chemically addictive like heroin/ nicotine, or is it purely behavioural?