On Monday, the same day that the New York Times shocked the world and erected a paywall on their website, Maer Roshan, founder of the failed Radar Magazine, launched TheFix.com, “addiction and recovery, straight up.” With everyone so indignant about paying for the Times, the free website went up almost…
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 patients with chronic conditions. George H.W. Bush cut all…
Well, the reviews are in. Square Grouper, the new documentary about South Florida’s wild pot-smuggling history — the movie features Robert Platshorn, the man who served the longest pot-related prison term in U.S. history for his part in a the Black Tuna gang — premiered last week in Austin at…
While Gov. Rick Scott seems like the biggest obstacle in front of the prescription drug problem that kills seven Floridians a day, a new trend has emerged among young addicts. Users in their 20s increasingly prefer to crush pills and inject their fix, according to a report from Jim Hall,…
It’s been a rough few days for Royal Caribbean’s Allure of the Seas. Last weekend, a crew member on the Port Everglades-based megaship was murdered on a beach in Cozumel by a Mexican bartender; now a passenger has been charged with dealing drugs on board.Steven Krumholz, a 51-year-old from West…
What’s off-white, crumbly, sold in gas stations, and goes up your nose? Hint: You’re not actually supposed to take a bath with it. The party drug MDPV, marketed as “bath salts,” packs the anxiety-laden punch of a vat of coffee and the comedown of a mild meth tweak, and apparently…
Bruce D. Grant is the director of the governor’s Office of Drug Control, and he found out by email last month that Rick Scott’s transition team had decided to eliminate his four-person office to save half a million dollars a year. Meanwhile, the state is still struggling to finalize the…
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 deaths per year…
Fake pot, it’s the new thing, sort of like real pot in the ’60s, cocaine in the ’80s, and heroin in the ’90s — not that any of those ever actually receded from the landscape of mind alteration. Recently, you may have read one of the ubiquitous “officials want to…
