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BILL’S BOOK CORNER: BILL INSULTS KEITH RICHARDS
Hey Dig. Here’s my piece for this week. I can’t look at it again, I’m too tired. I hate to be dramatic but I got hit by a car this morning. It happened while I was departing the scene of a property...
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PERFORMING ARTS: LOST VOICES OF BOSTON
Scheming the rhyme back into Boston Rise up from the smoky basements of black turtlenecks and snaps: this is not your average underground spoken poetry jam. Matt Ganem is bringing lyrical verse...
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UTTER INSANITY: BOSTON REJECTS DISPENSARIES, MAY CLOSE LAST PUBLIC METHADONE...
There’s not a lot for pot advocates to celebrate in Boston this 4.20. Though the opening of local medical cannabis dispensaries is somewhere in sight, it is increasingly clear that municipal officials...
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TOUCH THE WONDER: FEEL GOOD HIT OF THE SUMMER
“You see, I think drugs have done some good things for us. I really do. And if you don’t believe drugs have done good things for us, do me a favor. Go home tonight. Take all your albums, all your tapes...
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DRUG LEADER: MEET THE LOCAL EX-NARC WHO SAYS IT’S TIME TO LEGALIZE ALL...
Photo by Dom Francis Jack Cole no longer kicks in doors, buys LSD, or pretends to be anything other than what he is: a retired undercover narc. Nowadays, Cole spends his days trying to convince people...
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BLUNT TRUTH: 100 MARIJUANA OVERDOSES (IN THE FANTASY WORLD OF DA BLODGETT)
Image by Scott Murry With politicians in full-on bullshit mode this election season, the same as always, it’s important to watch all the snakes in the grass. Whether running or not, candidates or mere...
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BAR HAVOC: LOVELY EVENING
I usually don’t ask customers for credit cards to start tabs. Normally I can keep an eye on people, and it makes them feel more human not to have to drop a form of payment up front. Sit, drink, and...
View Article100 MARIJUANA OVERDOSES (IN THE FANTASY WORLD OF DA BLODGETT)
The Daily News of Newburyport reports that Essex County District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett told a roomful of people that “the increased potency of cannabis … which is often laced with high percentages...
View ArticleQ&A: FILMMAKER MICHAEL YEBBA ON HIS OPIATE DOC “A WORLD WITH NO SKIES”
Images via Michael Yebba A lot of people have been talking about heroin and Oxy lately, and about how opiates are gutting suburban towns. We’re not mad about that conversation finally happening, it’s...
View ArticleLET’S TALK ABOUT CHECKS: MEET THE MASSACHUSETTS POLITICIANS WHO TAKE MONEY...
From 2005 to this year, Purdue Pharma alone spent more than $700,000 hiring four outfits to push its agenda on Beacon Hill.
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HARD DRUG TRUTHS: END MANDATORY MINIMUM DRUG SENTENCES
The opioid crisis is dire enough without adding insult to injury. With almost 12,000 deaths from overdoses in Massachusetts since the year 2000—increasing sharply in recent years with fentanyl-laced...
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SIF SPACE: WILL MASS BE THE FIRST STATE WITH SAFE INJECTION FACILITIES?
A bill proposed on Beacon Hill would expand statewide harm reduction services to include safe injection facilities (SIFs). The Act to Authorize Public Health Workers to Pursue New Measures to Reduce...
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DRUG CHECKING AS SELF-HELP HARM REDUCTION
Photos by Baynard Woods With doofus drug czar and vindictive DOJ, citizens left to address opioid crisis on their own In October, Donald Trump declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency,...
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DIRTY OLD BOSTON: HEROIN DAZE
An abridged trudge through Boston’s long, repetitive history of opiate abuse From January to September of 2017, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) confirmed 932 opioid-related...
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EXIT DRUGS IN THE GREEN ZONE
From the doc’s office to the dispensary, Mass continues to fight opioids with cannabis The opioid crisis in Massachusetts is costly. As has been the war on drugs. From the financial toll to the...
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F.I.G.H.T. SUBOXONE: REAL TALK ABOUT MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT
An interview with Eric Spofford After years of struggling with addiction to opioids and heading straight for the grave or incarceration in his early adult life, Eric Spofford got sober in 2006....
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EXCERPT: REAL PEOPLE REAL RECOVERY BY ERIC SPOFFORD & PIERS KANIUKA
We recently published an interview with Eric Spofford done by our partners at the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, specifically for their F.I.G.H.T. Opiates program. An outspoken addiction...
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SPECIAL FEATURE: SEX, DRUGS, AND FENTANYL
Among the nightmares of an unprecedented epidemic, sex work gets more dangerous for opioid addicts Nikki got in the truck after agreeing to exchange sex for $50. She didn’t notice that the...
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THE POLICY POLICE: CANNABIS COP AND GOP COHORT CHALLENGE CANDIDATES AND...
PHOTOS BY DEREK KOUYOUMJIAN It’s hard to miss a guy in a 10-gallon cowboy hat with a grey stache sporting a jacket promoting the legalization of heroin. When the person wearing it is a retired...
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