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THE INHALE OF WEED by Peter Nolan Smith

April 8, 2013 – 9:43 am

60s, marijuana, the south shore, clam box, nantasket beach, reefer, the surf, wollaston Marijuana was demonized during the 1960s. The Boston police treated reefer smokers as harshly as junkies. John Sinclair, the MC5 radical, was sentenced to ten years of prison for the crime of ‘giving’ an undercover agent two joints. The severity of his [...]

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FLUTE THING By Peter Nolan Smith

April 29, 2012 – 11:24 pm

In the Spring of 1969 I ran for president of the South Shore CYO Deanery. My older brother was the incumbent and my election was close to unanimous. Throughout the summer I met at the CYO headquarters in Weymouth with the other officers to plan out our event schedule for autumn, winter, and spring. The [...]

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THE HOLE OF HEAVEN by Peter Nolan Smith

April 23, 2012 – 6:16 pm

According to the Old Testament God banished Adam and Eve from Eden for eating apples and this Original Sin condemned future generations to this mortal coil, however humans have defied this divine decree with repeated attempts to recreate Heaven on Earth. Most of these utopias have been short-lived, for nothing irked the true believers more [...]

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