Category Archives: Drugs

BAD CROSSING by Peter Nolan Smith

June 24, 2014 – 4:39 pm

My college tuition in 1973 was $2000 for the year. I hacked a cab for Boston Taxi to support myself. Our garage was next to the old Boston Arena. If a driver booked more than $100 a night, the payout jumped from 45/55 to 50/50. My classmate Hank Watson and I were the top earners […]

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WEIRD WOMB at Shea Stadium

February 20, 2014 – 12:55 pm

Dakota and Johnny are bartenders at the 169 Lounge on East Broadway. They treated me like a prince, because I have the last quaaludes on Earth. Dakota wants one bad. “If you give me one, you’ll never have to pay for a drink in this bar.” Dakota came from Arizona. He was less than half […]

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9th Floor by Jessica Dimmock

January 28, 2014 – 3:30 pm

My friend Shannon Greer sent a link for THE NINETH FLOOR by Jessica Dimmock. The site describes the series of photos as documenting a group of addicts who moved into the apartment of a former millionaire in a wealthy neighborhood in downtown Manhattan. Joe Smith, in his mid 60s, allowed a young addict to move […]

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Toronto’s Crackhead Voting Bloc

November 6, 2013 – 8:06 pm

More proof that the War on Drugs has been lost by the forces of Law and Order came with Toronto’s mayor publicly admitting to smoking the pipe on a drinking binge. Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine. There have been times when I’ve been in a drunken stupor. That’s why I want to see the […]

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More Ludes

October 9, 2013 – 11:20 am

From a female friend in Palm Beach; I remember ‘ludes well. I have a story about thinking I had a brain tumor and/or an allergy to rum because I kept passing out after I had a couple of daiquiris on a boat that was in harbor and coincidentally had very good drugs. I’d wake up […]

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