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Marijuana

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2012

    Legalize It! Top Five Diggity-Dank Tributes to Peter Tosh's Ultimate Weed Anthem

    ​This Sunday, Revolution Live and Ploppy Palace Productions are hosting the 14th Annual Medical Marijuana Benefit. The multimedia extravaganza lasts all day and features loads of 420-friendly jams (from the likes of Grammy winner Cyril Nevile, Johnny Drea, the Spam Allstars, the Funky Nuggets, and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2012

    Mug-Shot Friday: Hieroglyphics, a Poet, and a Guy Who Can't Do Anything Right

    ​Welcome to the inaugural post of the Broward-Palm Beach edition of Mug-Shot Friday, a long-standing franchise focusing on the week's most eye-catching mug shots from South Florida's tat heads, tough guys, and femmes fatale. Check out Miami New Times' Riptide blog for the Miami-Dade edit ... More >>

  • News

    February 9, 2012

    Pot Smuggler Schools Seniors on Medical Marijuana

    ​Welcome to the inaugural post of the Broward-Palm Beach edition of Mug-Shot Friday, a long-standing franchise focusing on the week's most eye-catching mug shots from South Florida's tat heads, tough guys, and femmes fatale. Check out Miami New Times' Riptide blog for the Miami-Dade edit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 21, 2011

    Medical Marijuana Resolution Now in Both Chambers of Florida Legislature

    ​​​Resolutions to let voters decide on an amendment to the Florida Constitution to legalize medical marijuana have now been proposed in both chambers of the Legislature.Miami Democratic Sen. Larcenia Bullard dropped Senate Joint Resolution 1028 in the hopper on Friday, becoming the Senate side ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2011

    Florida Medical Marijuana Referendum Petition a Bit Low on Signatures: 646,889 More Needed

    sodahead.com​If you want to see a medical marijuana referendum on the 2012 ballot, you'll have to say a prayer that House Joint Resolution 353 passes through the Legislature -- it's currently in the Criminal Justice Subcommittee -- or you're going to have to be one of 646,889 more Floridians to si ... More >>

  • News

    October 27, 2011

    Obama's War on Weed Represents a Strange About-Face on Medical Marijuana

    sodahead.com​If you want to see a medical marijuana referendum on the 2012 ballot, you'll have to say a prayer that House Joint Resolution 353 passes through the Legislature -- it's currently in the Criminal Justice Subcommittee -- or you're going to have to be one of 646,889 more Floridians to si ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2011

    Medical Marijuana Resolution Filed in Florida House to Let Voters Decide the Need for Weed

    sodahead.comNot quite yet.​An amendment to the Florida Constitution to legalize medical marijuana may be proposed on 2012 voter ballots, if one House Democrat gets his way.Rep. Jeff Clemens of Lake Worth has submitted House Joint Resolution 353, which would put a medical-marijuana amendment up to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2011

    Marijuana Activists: Eric Perez Died Because of Weed Prohibition

    ​Duuuuuuuuude.There are some bong-ripping writers and opinion-givers out there who believe that Eric Perez -- the 18-year-old who died at a West Palm Beach juvie lockup last month -- died because of the prohibition of marijuana.Perez was on already on probation for a robbery when he was younger, a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2011

    Charged With Growing Pot, Man Claims Medicinal Marijuana Defense -- and Wins

    Jeffrey Kennedy, with his wife, Sharon, says they've gone through "18 months of hell" since his arrest.​Prosecutors dropped criminal charges today against a Palm Beach County man who had claimed a medicinal marijuana defense in a case that could have sent him to prison for five years for growing p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2011

    Government-Supplied Marijuana Cigarettes from Miami Are Lost in the Mail

    Mussika's missing medical marijuana.​Elvy Mussika is a former South Florida resident who uses medical marijuana -- grown and supplied directly by the federal government. As detailed in our October "Legalize It" issue, the government started a program in 1982 that supplied pre-rolled joints to pati ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2011

    High Support For Medical Marijauna Doesn't Matter to an Anti-Weed Columnist

    ​Let's clear a few things up just in case anyone was misled by a column from the Sun Sentinel's Nicole Brochu earlier this week. Despite a recent survey that found 57 percent of Floridians support legalization of medical marijuana, Brochu doesn't think that it's likely to happen. "Florida isn ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2011

    Republican Pollster: 57 Percent of Floridians Support Legalizing Medicinal Pot

    A survey conducted by GOP pollster Fabrizio, McLaughlin & Associates -- the same firm that conducted polls for Florida Gov. Rick Scott's campaign -- found that 57 percent of Floridians support legalization of medicinal marijuana. Daily BruinSoon coming to a strip mall near you? ​This news ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2010

    With Tough Pot Laws, Florida Criminals Know How to Pose

    Happy Mug-Shot Monday! Today we're focusing on citizens arrested for marijuana charges. Florida has some of the most stringent marijuana laws so we wanted to see how pot-lovers look in front of the gray wall. Hint: one looks like Jesus.These mugshots are courtesy of both the BSO and PBSO.Name: Grego ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2010

    U.S. Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske: "Marijuana Is Not Medicine"

    ​There's a conference under way in West Palm Beach called "Rx for Change: Targeting Prescription Drug Abuse." One of the major talking points is the staggering number of accidental deaths related to prescription drug abuse: seven every day in Florida. That's more than the number of car-crash death ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 11, 2010

    Attorney General Candidate Jim Lewis: Legalize Weed to Save Florida's Economy

    Photo from jimlewisforflorida.comLewis: "Faint heart never won fair maiden."​Jim Lewis won't be your next attorney general. But if there were some miraculous come-from-behind victory for the perennial losing candidate, Lewis would bring about a radical change. He'd legalize pot. Not just medicinal ... More >>

  • News

    October 7, 2010

    Key Dates in Pot History

    Photo from jimlewisforflorida.comLewis: "Faint heart never won fair maiden."​Jim Lewis won't be your next attorney general. But if there were some miraculous come-from-behind victory for the perennial losing candidate, Lewis would bring about a radical change. He'd legalize pot. Not just medicinal ... More >>

  • News

    October 7, 2010

    Famous Tokers

    From an Olympic champion to an honest-to-goodness queen, everybody has smoked pot.

  • News

    October 7, 2010

    Pot by the Numbers

    From an Olympic champion to an honest-to-goodness queen, everybody has smoked pot.

  • News

    October 7, 2010

    It's Time for Florida to Legalize Pot

    Florida has the nation's stiffest pot penalties, but everyone seems to be lighting up.

  • News

    October 7, 2010

    Reefer Revolution

    Here's ground zero in the battle to decriminalize pot.

  • Calendar

    June 3, 2010

    Just What the Doctor Ordered

    Here's ground zero in the battle to decriminalize pot.

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2010

    Florida Capital Ranks Second "Most Stoned" City in Daily Beast Poll

    Honorary FSU alumni?​In honor of 4/20, now "universally known as the annual date of celebration for those with pot smoking countercultural pride," the Daily Beast has ranked the top 40 most toked-up cities across America. And it comes as only a mild surprise that our state capital, Tallahassee, sc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2010

    Pembroke Pines Man Busted for Driving Truck With Three Tons of Marijuana

    Flickr​Eric Emmanuel, a 35-year-old man from Pembroke Pines, is being charged in what's said to be the biggest marijuana bust in Pennsylvania history. He and Stanley Baptiste, of Winter Garden, were arrested this weekend on a stretch of freeway east of the state capital, Harrisburg. Police found 6 ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 14, 2010

    Get Up, Stand Up

    Flickr​Eric Emmanuel, a 35-year-old man from Pembroke Pines, is being charged in what's said to be the biggest marijuana bust in Pennsylvania history. He and Stanley Baptiste, of Winter Garden, were arrested this weekend on a stretch of freeway east of the state capital, Harrisburg. Police found 6 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2009

    Feds' New Stance on Medical Marijuana May Be Boon for West Palm-Based "GreenCard"

    Flickr: captainandapants​Now that the U.S. Justice Department has committed -- at least rhetorically -- to an "efficient and rational use" of its enforcement powers against marijuana users and sellers, there's money to be made. Maybe Commerce Online of West Palm Beach will emerge as a kind-of moun ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 15, 2009

    Nature's Way

    Flickr: captainandapants​Now that the U.S. Justice Department has committed -- at least rhetorically -- to an "efficient and rational use" of its enforcement powers against marijuana users and sellers, there's money to be made. Maybe Commerce Online of West Palm Beach will emerge as a kind-of moun ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2009

    Nicaraguan Pot Endorses This Post, The Donald Is a Downer, Big Ball Cuts Corners

    After watching last night's Pepsi Cola-Bud Light Super Bowl, it became clear to me that everything needs an official sponsor. So today's Morning Juice is brought to you by the Nicaraguan Tourism and Marijuana Growers Cooperative. It's good timing to land that sponsor too, because they just picked up ... More >>

  • News

    July 17, 2008

    Letters for July 17-23, 2008

    After watching last night's Pepsi Cola-Bud Light Super Bowl, it became clear to me that everything needs an official sponsor. So today's Morning Juice is brought to you by the Nicaraguan Tourism and Marijuana Growers Cooperative. It's good timing to land that sponsor too, because they just picked up ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2008

    Big Sexy's Sinful Sweets

    After watching last night's Pepsi Cola-Bud Light Super Bowl, it became clear to me that everything needs an official sponsor. So today's Morning Juice is brought to you by the Nicaraguan Tourism and Marijuana Growers Cooperative. It's good timing to land that sponsor too, because they just picked up ... More >>

  • News

    June 19, 2008

    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.

  • Music

    June 12, 2008

    Kottonmouth Kings

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

  • Blogs

    September 25, 2007

    And What's With The Royal We?

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

  • News

    September 13, 2007

    Letters for September 13-19, 2007

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

  • News

    August 30, 2007

    Norm, Norm, and NORML

    Who's Smokin' Funny Cigarettes?

  • News

    July 12, 2007

    Second-hand Smoke

    Collateral Damage Is Forever

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2007

    Up In Smoke

    Collateral Damage Is Forever

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2007

    NAACP Blows Smoke

    Collateral Damage Is Forever

  • News

    October 5, 2006

    Weed Wars

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

  • News

    January 26, 2006

    As the World Twists

    Lake Pols-begone

  • Calendar

    October 20, 2005

    Welcome Back

    Lake Pols-begone

  • News

    September 22, 2005

    Tailpipe

    Reefer Silliness

  • Nightlife

    May 13, 2004

    Best Place to Mellow Out, Man

    The Nakamal Kava Bar

  • Goods and Services

    May 13, 2004

    Best Head Shop

    Grateful J's

  • Music

    April 29, 2004

    Eagles of Death Metal

    Peace Love Death Metal (Ant Acid Audio)

  • News

    November 21, 2002

    Cashed

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

  • Goods and Services

    May 16, 2002

    Best Head Shop

    Cloudy Daze

  • Calendar

    May 2, 2002

    Legalize It

    Stranahan Park goes to pot

  • News

    August 9, 2001

    Undercurrents

    An accused miscreant slips through BrowardÍs dragnet, but a pot smoker gets snagged

  • News

    June 11, 1998

    Infuriating the Joint

    A public seminar on the evils of marijuana. An activist claiming pot saved his life. Someone was arrested.

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