Posts Tagged ‘driving’
All the rage
Well, our long, hot summer is finally over. OK, it wasn’t that long. Summer around here never is. But if you don’t think it was hot, tell that to the woman who had a cup of hot coffee thrown at her while sitting in the Dunkin’ Donuts in the Junction one morning last July. As […]
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Foreseen Circumstances
QUESTION: During the campaign to legalize recreational marijuana in Massachusetts, how many times were we assured that legalization would never lead to increased use by teens? ANSWER: About the same number of times we were told that legalizing weed would not result in more highway deaths in Massachusetts. Go explain how that works to the […]
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Dear Wakefield High
In the run-up to the Nov. 8, 2016 election that legalized pot in Massachusetts, how many times did you hear that legalizing recreational marijuana would never lead to increased pot use among youth? I heard it dozens of times, in paid advertisements, in op-ed pieces and on social media. The level of denial that legalization […]
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Tags: 2016, cannabis, Catherine Dhingra, Cheech & Chong, driving, drugs, election, Galvin Middle School, high, Humor, legalization, marijuana, Massachusetts, medicine, Opinion, Politics, pot, potheads, stoned, stoners, Wakefield High School, weed, WHS, WMHS, youth, Youth Risk Behavior Survey
High resolution
This week, the Wakefield Board of Selectmen passed a resolution opposing the legalization of marijuana, dealing a devastating blow to the local Cannabis Community. On the bright side, most of them were too high to notice. Dude, don’t the selectmen know that people have a Constitutional right to smoke weed? The Constitution was written on […]
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My Way or the High Way
Everybody knows by now that there is a drug abuse crisis in the state, so naturally Massachusetts officials are doing everything in their power to make life easier for drug users and dealers and harder for the police. God forbid we do anything that might inconvenience the stoner community. It seems that hardly a week […]
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Tags: drivers license, driving, drug offenders, drug traffickers, drugs, marijuana, Mark Sardella, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Senate, Supreme Judicial Court, Wakefield Daily Item
Mixed Signals
This has been driving me crazy for years, so I was pleased when a member of the Board of Selectmen raised it at a recent meeting. It relates to the intersection of Salem and Lowell streets (at the Prime Gas Station) as well as the intersection of Salem and New Salem streets. Both of these […]
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Tags: blinker, cars, directional, drivers, driving, Mark Sardella, roads, signal, streets, traffic, Wakefield Daily Item, Wakefield MA
