“You’Ll Never Get Nowhere Smokin’ the Pipe!”
“You’ll never get nowhere smokin’ the pipe!” – James Salton of Prayer House of Deliverance Local Memphis Commercial for Up From the World on WLMT UPN 30. This commercial played for years and was famous among locals. “Get dope out your vein and hope in your brain. You’ll never get nowhere smokin’ the pipe. Never. You wanna get your lesson out and wanna be smart in school? Get rid of the drugs. Get away from the in crowd. Get’a close to God.”
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Filed under: Memphis Drug Use
Jeff Buckley released his one and only album, Grace, in 1994, and three years later, when he was getting ready to record his second album, he drowned in the Wolf River, in Memphis. He was only 31, and his death was an accident. But did he die, on some …
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West Clinic's Mounce Leading Efforts to Improve Care
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The West Clinic's flagship location in East Memphis currently includes a surgery center, an infusion clinic, advanced imagery equipment, physician's offices, a lab and a pharmacy. Mounce said the clinic hopes to add radiation oncology services to the …
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Family wants more answers about handcuffed death
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Chavis Carter's family hasn't accepted the official explanation for his death: that he was on meth when he fatally shot himself while his hands were cuffed behind him in the backseat of a patrol car in Arkansas. The family …
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