Category Archives: Drugs
Nashua ‘Safe Stations’: 800+ Opioid Addicts Get Help
The Nashua Safe Stations program, which connects opioid addicts with recovery help at city fire stations, recently reached another milestone. As of the end of August, the program has served more than 800 people since launching in November, according to … Continue reading
New Ipswich residents distributing misbranded drugs from India
John E. Hayes, 53, and his wife, Plabplueng Hayes, 50, both pleaded guilty to conspiring to introduce misbranded drugs into interstate commerce, according to United States Attorney John J. Farley in a press release issued by U.S. Department of Justice … Continue reading
New Hampshire doctor who diverted opioids can return to practice after license suspension
A New Hampshire doctor has had his license restored and can return to practice following a suspension for opioid use. Christopher S. Manfred, M.D., a former anesthesiologist at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, can resume practice after undergoing treatment, according … Continue reading
Posted in Drugs, Health Care
Tagged Christopher S. Manfred, Dartmouth-Hitchcock, Lebanon, Opioids
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NH Blogger Rails Against Border Patrol Checkpoints, Calls Out Libertarians
NH blogger Susan the Bruce has written an excellent post excoriating the police state and its invasive internal Border Patrol checkpoints, one of which was set up this weekend just south, curiously, of the NH Cannabis Freedom Festival. Sure enough, more people were … Continue reading
Posted in Drugs, Free Keene, Immigration/Illegal Immigration
Tagged Border Patrol, Checkpoints, Susan Bruce
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67% of NH Cannabis Freedom Festival Attendees Score Libertarian on Quiz
This weekend Darryl W Perry and I manned a Libertarian Party of NH outreach booth at the first-ever NH Cannabis Freedom Festival and it went extremely well! Over the course of three days at the festival, we found that over 67% of … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Drugs, Free Keene
Tagged Libertarians, Marijuana, NH Cannabis Freedom Festival
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U.S. Border Patrol arrests 25 illegals at I-93 roadblock, seize pounds of pot
During the three-day operation, Border Patrol agents from the Swanton Sector arrested 25 people who did not have a valid immigration status, the Border Patrol said in a release. Fourteen were from Columbia and had overstayed their visas. Other illegal … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Drugs, Immigration/Illegal Immigration
Tagged Arrests, Border Patrol, Marijuana
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Join LPNH and Free Talk Live at this Weekend’s NH Cannabis Freedom Festival 2017!
You’re invited to join the Libertarian Party of NH and Free Talk Live from this year’s NH Cannabis Freedom Festival at Rogers Campground. Last year Darryl and I conducted a bitcoin outreach booth at then-named Hempfest. This time, we’re focusing on the LPNH, which recently achieved ballot status in NH equal to … Continue reading
A Reminder as New Hampshire Grows Its Addiction Bureaucracy
Read this book before it is too late. (Or read it again.) Theodore Dalrymple believes that almost everything people know about opiate addiction is wrong. Most flawed of all is the notion that addicts are in touch with profound mysteries … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Drugs
Tagged Addiction, Heroin, Romancing Opiates, Theodore Dalrymple
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N.H.’s Medical Marijuana Sellers Are Preparing For A Major Uptick In Customers
People suffering from chronic pain can now get medical marijuana in New Hampshire, thanks to a law extending the treatment to cover new conditions that takes effect this week. Later in the month, people with post-traumatic stress disorder will also … Continue reading
AmeriCorps Members to Come to N.H. to Fight Drug Crisis
Starting in November 16 AmeriCorps volunteers will be coming to New Hampshire to work with people fighting drug addiction in the state. These volunteers will serve as community health workers in Lebanon, Nashua and Strafford County. They’ll be tasked with … Continue reading
The New Media Militia 