Subject: Illegal Drugs

• NAACP Blows Smoke

  March 21, 2007

• A Portrait of the Tattoo Artist as a Wild Man

  November 5, 1998

• Big Sexy's Sinful Sweets

  July 7, 2008

• Sheriff Takes Contribution From Legendary Drug Smuggling Figure

  October 25, 2008

• Enough to Make You Sick

  March 26, 1998

• www.funnymoney.com

  May 28, 1998

• Infuriating the Joint

  June 11, 1998

• The Sheriff's Criminal Association

  October 15, 1998

• Best Place To Witness The Failed War On Drugs

  March 11, 1999

• Oldfella

  May 6, 1999

• Best Head Shop

  May 17, 2001

• Undercurrents

  August 9, 2001

• Best Head Shop

  May 16, 2002

• Best Place to Mellow Out, Man

  May 13, 2004

• RIP ODB

  November 25, 2004

• Prunk TV: Featuring Marilyn Manson

  via www.marilynmansonartworkonline.com'When I Get Old,' by Marilyn MansonMarilyn Manson's paintings are much better than his music. Just kidding; we love ya, Marilyn! His solo show, Trismegistus, debuted this past December during Art Basel Miami Beach. But if you missed the super-VIP opening, don't despair -- the paintings will still be on display at 101/Exhibit (101 NE 40th St., Miami) until February 20. My stylist, Adel Berman (she is combing my hair in the video), realized that Rick Ross and

  January 26, 2009

• Rap Stardom Can Wait. For Now "Godsent the General" Just Wants a Steady Job

  When Fifty Cent rapped about dealing drugs and surviving a hail of bullets, he had credibility. The Game claims his from having 'banged with the Bloods during a Compton upbringing. So you'd think dealing drugs and a federal penitentiary stay would confer industry advantages to a 30-year-old West Palm Beach rapper named Edwin Camacho. Or to put it another way: That hard time had better be worth something, because it sure isn't helping Camacho keep a job. "The system is really messed up," says

  February 3, 2009

• Did Drug Money Fund Renovation of Mayor's Home?

  The answer: Maybe, maybe not. But it's a fair question. Mutual Benefits, the fraud-filled firm that employed Broward County Mayor Stacy Ritter's husband and paid $117,000 to renovate her Parkland home, was just a moderately successful (and moderately dirty) firm in 2001. Then it made its big push into Central and South America, where it started raking in tens of millions of dollars with investors. That's when Mutual Benefits went to a new level -- and started pouring mi

  February 11, 2009

• Local Lawyer "Comes Out" as Pot Smoker

  Local attorney Norm Kent serves on the Board of Directors of NORML, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. So it wouldn't take a giant stretch of the imagination to picture him puffing on what my grandma used to call "the wacky weed." Saturday, however, Kent made it official in a dramatic blog post: "Today, I am going to come out of the closet as a bi-coastal pot consumer." In an entry titled, "Meet Me: I Am Patient Number 38020601," Kent explains how he, as a cancer survivo

  March 9, 2009

• Smoked Tuna in the Can

  He was the first big bust of the War on Drugs. That and two bits won't get you a cup of coffee.

  June 19, 2008

• Kottonmouth Kings

  June 12, 2008

• Accidental Hit Man

  Sure, Paul Brandreth talks like a wiseguy. But is he a cold-blooded killer?

  February 28, 2008

• Just Say Uncle

  The DEA's "Twin Oceans" hooked a big fish, but can they reel it in?

  February 21, 2008

• Burned at Both Ends

  A background in hauling pot gives you the skills and chutzpah to become a Medicaid mogul

  November 1, 2007

• Letters for September 13-19, 2007

  September 13, 2007

• Norm, Norm, and NORML

  Who's Smokin' Funny Cigarettes?

  August 30, 2007

• Raw Power

  Just released from prison, Miami hip-hop icon DJ Raw is ready for the takeover

  August 9, 2007

• Wingin' It

  Fledgling Guardian Angels get the call from gang-riddled Lake Worth

  August 2, 2007

• Second-hand Smoke

  Collateral Damage Is Forever

  July 12, 2007

• Weed Wars

  Everyone loves Riviera Beach's special bud — except the potheads.

  October 5, 2006

• Mayor Al's Shady Pal

  When you're a politician helping out a felon, it's better not to ask questions.

  July 6, 2006

• To Each Theron

  Aeon Flux, The Robert Altman Collection, Bazaar Bizarre: The Strange Case of Serial Killer Bob Berdella, Crackheads Gone Wild

  April 27, 2006

• Jurors and Prosecutors Sink a Federal Case Against Internet Pharmacies

  April 23, 2009

• He Dunnit (No, He Dunnit!)

  Michael Ray Roberts has avoided serious prison time by ratting out his partners. So far.

  October 20, 2005

• Finding Gary, Part 2

  A rogue FBI agent, tons of smuggled drugs, a wife in search of her husband's corpse

  August 11, 2005

• Entrapped

  Hollywood police used a Bahamian Casanova to set up Valarie Curry

  February 3, 2005

• Acid Again

  As LSD does a slow fade, a Fort Lauderdale researcher keeps the science trip going

  January 27, 2005

• Second Spin

  DJ Gabriel Fain gets another chance to hit the big time

  January 6, 2005

• Contra Campaign

  An Iran-Contra conspirator joins the Swift Boat crowd. It was bound to happen.

  September 23, 2004

• Missing Leg

  The cops tagged amputee Duane Brown as one of "America's Most Wanted," but now he's fighting back

  January 22, 2004

• Neighborhood on the Cusp

  Residents of South Middle River fear that budget cuts might send them spiraling back to crime and crack

  November 20, 2003

• 86ed

  West Palm's "most notorious": Big fish or a small scapegoat in the war on drugs?

  September 18, 2003

• The Matrix: Unloaded

  Hank Asher's just the guy to set up a futuristic terrorist-tracking system, but the cops don't trust him

  September 11, 2003

• Fantasy Interrupted

  The X is gone, and the strippers have crooked teeth. Thank the war on drugs.

  September 4, 2003

• Make My Daze

  Vin Diesel tries to be Clint Eastwood in A Man Apart, but leaves audiences feeling unlucky BY LUKE Y. THOMPSON

  April 10, 2003

• Cashed

  Labors to legalize bud in Florida have gone as sour as week-old bong water

  November 21, 2002

• Legalize It

  Stranahan Park goes to pot

  May 2, 2002

• I Want a New Drug

  Users call it G, Scoop, Goop, EZLay, Georgia Home Boy, or just plain old GHB. What's it like? Euphoric… and potentially deadly.

  July 13, 2000

• Into Thin Air

  When Gary Weaver disappeared under mysterious circumstances, the authorities eventually gave up.
  His wife didn't.

  April 27, 2000

• Just Say, Um, OK to Drugs

  A new crusade to rid Dania Beach of drugs has targeted some unlikely villains, including a local program director and a former mayor

  February 10, 2000