Category Archives: youth

THE INHALE OF WEED by Peter Nolan Smith

February 10, 2018 – 9:43 am

Marijuana was demonized throughout my youth. The Boston police treated reefer smokers as harshly as junkies. John Sinclair, the MC5’s radical spokesperson, was sentenced to ten years of prison for the crime of ‘giving’ an undercover agent two joints. The severity of his punishment did not deter the millions of marijuana smokers of the 60s […]

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Someone to Blame for Me

February 7, 2018 – 9:01 pm

In the 1940s American doctors infected hundreds if not thousands of Guatemalan prisoners, inmates, and common folk with syphilis. The same doctors had subjected blacks Americans to a similar treatment. Millions more were exposed to atomic bomb fallout in the 50s and hundreds were dosed with LSD by the military. Medicine gone mad without any […]

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A Winter Poem

January 7, 2018 – 2:06 pm

My friend Alison in Palm Beach found this poem. Her trees are dying from the cold. ” WINTER ” by Abigail Elizabeth McIntyre Shit It’s Cold The End This was one of coldest weeks in America. Even Florida had snow. It wasn’t always that way and maybe it won’t be again, but I remember driving […]

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WILD IN THE STREETS

August 2, 2017 – 2:41 am

1968 was a time of revolution in Paris, Mexico, Chicago, Saigon, Prague. Most were put down bloodily by the forces of repression. The young attacking the young at the behest of the over-30s. A young writer Robert Thom wrote a short story WILD IN THE STREETS and Hollywood capitalized on its call to trust no […]

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Jimmy Before He was Jimi

July 26, 2017 – 4:17 am

Jimi Hendrix Shotgun Live 1965 Night Train Backing Buddy & Stacey. Oldest Known Film Footage of Jimi Hendrix Playing Guitar On Nashville’s Channel 5 To see this VDO please go to the following URL http://www.zappinternet.com/video/tavTfoFhuR/El-primer-video-de-Jimi-Hendrix/

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