Category Archives: Drugs

Doctor Addiction

October 6, 2018 – 8:01 pm

New England is plagued by an opiod epidemic. Pharma marketed oxycontins to pain sufferers by the millions. Tens of thousands of young people ODed in the past decade. Not a single police officer in the USA has raided the Pharma HQ as a drug cartel. Big Pharma made billions and paid nothing for the dead […]

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WALKING THE WALK by peter nolan smith

September 17, 2018 – 12:19 pm

Road trips need a destination. Point A to B. The travel is important. Not A or B. The summer of 1987 Greg Hunt, and I threw our bags in back of Paul Fullerton’s pick-up. Our friends in Michigan had extended invitations to visit them in Onekema and the Upper Peninsula. We celebrated our departure at […]

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High on the Field / Bernie Carbo

August 5, 2018 – 12:31 am

When the Pentagon liberalized their policy on gays in the military under ‘Don’t Tell, Don’t Ask’, President Clinton was excoriated by the right for homoficating the ranks, while sexual liberationists accused him of a sell-out. Two decades later President Obama favored scrapping his Democratic predecessor’s measure for a service-wide acceptance of gay military members. While […]

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A Painter Painting a Picture

July 31, 2018 – 12:21 pm

Hitchhiking was a good way to travel between Boston and Montreal in the early 1970s. The 400 miles of I-89 was one of the East Coast’s most scenic highway, slanting across New Hampshire and Vermont to Lake Champlain then into Quebec. It was a great trip from start to finish. In August of 1971 I […]

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War on Drugs Victory

April 20, 2018 – 1:53 am

I was a good boy throughout the 1960s. I did no drugs. I drank beer, fought in senseless brawls, and drove my 68 VW Beetle like it was my father’s Delta 88. The summer of 1970 was my baptism into the drug culture. Coming back from the Surf Nantasket after seeing the Chosen Few I smoked a […]

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