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Marijuana

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2012

    Florida Dad Puts Pot in 6-Year-Old's Backpack

    A kindergarten classroom in St. Petersburg had an interesting yet unplanned show and tell recently after a six-year-old student pulled three ounces of marijuana and a scale from their backpack and proclaimed to the classes' teacher, "Look what I got."How'd it get there? Apparently the student's fath ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2012

    Mugshots Friday: The Lost Tenenbaum and Madam Ginger

    Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week (or thereabouts) in Miami-Dade County. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain look more badass than we ever will. This is the italicized intro to that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2012

    Hit-and-Run Driver Michele Traverso's Drug Test Comes Back Clean

    Michele Traverso​Michele Traverso, the driver responsible for a deadly hit-and-run accident on the Rickenbacker Causeway, made his first appearance in court this morning and voluntarily submitted to a drug test. Despite previous arrests for possession of marijuana and cocaine, Traverso's drug ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2012

    Cyclist Aaron Cohen Dies After Rickenbacker Hit-and-Run; Driver Michele Traverso Arrested

    ​Aaron Cohen, one of the two bicyclist who were injured in an early morning hit-and-run car crash on the Rickenbacker Causeway on Wednesday morning, has died.Meanwhile, police have arrested the driver Michele Traverso, 25, after he turned himself in early this morning. Traverso was driving with a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2011

    Florida Man Arrested for Trying to Buy Pot at Burger King Drive-Thru

    ​Sure, Burger King probably makes tons of money from stoners. Who else is going to eat half that menu? Lets be honest, who do you think all those bizarre ads they ran for years were targeted at? But BK is not in the business of selling pot. Thirty-two-year-old Shawn Porter of Deltona, Florida foun ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2011

    $75K Worth of Pot Found in U. Miami Student and His Twin Brother's Apartment

    via Facebook​Two twin brothers, one an FIU student and another a UM student who was on track to become a Marine officer, have found themselves on the wrong side of the law after about $75,000 worth of marijuana plants were found in their shared South Miami apartment. The discovery was made after a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2011

    Girls, Girls, Girls, and a Man With a Very Smooth Head

    ​Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week (or thereabouts) in Miami-Dade County. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain look more badass than we ever will. .

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2011

    Pot Smokers Less Likely To be Fat

    ​America is facing economic malaise, overcrowded prisons, and an ever increasing obesity problem. Things might not just seem a little bit bitter if we all chilled out and got high, they might actually get better. Yes, even on the fat front. A new study has found that pot smokers are less likely to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2011

    Mugshots Friday: Big Ami$h, A Forehead Equation, and Our Friend Tom

    ​​Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week (or thereabouts) in Miami-Dade County. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain look more badass than we ever will. This is the italicized intro to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2011

    Mugshots Friday: The Evil Iglesias, Bladimir, and Gangsta Panda

    ​Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week (or thereabouts) in Miami-Dade County. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain look more badass than we ever will. This is the italicized intro t ... More >>

  • News

    May 12, 2011

    Casinos, pot, and fun will save Miami's economy

    ​Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week (or thereabouts) in Miami-Dade County. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain look more badass than we ever will. This is the italicized intro t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2011

    Who Wanna Wild Out at Miami-Dade Mayoral Candidate Luther Campbell's Campaign Rally?

    Vote Uncle Luke 4 Mayor!​Most professional politicians don't know how to party. They're idea of "fun" is finger foods, light drinks, and saxophone music. So under normal circumstances, we here at Crossfade prefer partying to politicking, boozing to bargaining, drugging to debating. But Miami-Dad ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2011

    Casinos, Pot, And Fun: The Key To New Jobs In Miami-Dade

    ​Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke -- who is a candidate for Miami-Dade mayor -- lays out his vision for kick-starting the local economy.It's time for Miami ... More >>

  • News

    April 28, 2011

    Letters from the issue of April 28, 2011

    ​Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke -- who is a candidate for Miami-Dade mayor -- lays out his vision for kick-starting the local economy.It's time for Miami ... More >>

  • News

    April 21, 2011

    Uncle Luke says legalize marijuana

    ​Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke -- who is a candidate for Miami-Dade mayor -- lays out his vision for kick-starting the local economy.It's time for Miami ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2011

    Stop Jailing Pot Smokers And Let's Go After The Real Criminals

    ​Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke -- who is a candidate to replace more-boring-than-bread-pudding ex-Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez -- makes a campaign pr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2011

    Mugshots Friday: A Cape, Blue Goop, and Hair, Hair, Everywhere

    Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken in Miami-Dade County in the week previous. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain-out look more badass than we ever will . This is the italicized intro to that series.

  • News

    October 7, 2010

    Marijuana by the numbers

    To hell with Harper's. New Times gets you high.

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2010

    University of Miami Baseball Player Frankie Ratcliff Busted for Selling Pot

    ​The University of Miami football players have cleaned up their act in a big way, but every once in a while another of the school's sports' athletes keep the "Thug U" image alive. Last night, 19-year-old Frankie Ratcliff, a freshman on the school's storied baseball program was arrested for tr ... More >>

  • News

    April 29, 2010

    Miami fails to make list of top pot-smoking cities

    ​The University of Miami football players have cleaned up their act in a big way, but every once in a while another of the school's sports' athletes keep the "Thug U" image alive. Last night, 19-year-old Frankie Ratcliff, a freshman on the school's storied baseball program was arrested for tr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2010

    Wrong: Miami Left Out of Top 40 Pot-Smoking Cities

    Local pride took another hit today. Fresh off that embarrassing #4 party school ranking from Playboy, a Web site run by a white British blonde reports Miami is not one of the country's top 40 pot-smoking cities. ​ Tina Brown's The Daily Beast compiled a list of America's most stoned cities in hon ... More >>

  • News

    March 18, 2010

    The murder of Stevie Febonio: South Florida's marijuana grow houses can be a deadly business

    Local pride took another hit today. Fresh off that embarrassing #4 party school ranking from Playboy, a Web site run by a white British blonde reports Miami is not one of the country's top 40 pot-smoking cities. ​ Tina Brown's The Daily Beast compiled a list of America's most stoned cities in hon ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2009

    Happy 420! Miami Weed Music

    Well, today is April 20. If you need any explaining why Crossfade is featuring a Miami weed music video, you oughta smoke a joint and think about it. This video is for the song Ganja Shop by Shifta, a Miami via Jamaica artist. Click here for Shiftas myspace. 

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2009

    Norland High Debate Prompts Riptide Critic

    This morning, Riptide posted a blog about a former pot smuggler's plan to organize a Norland Senior High reunion. It notes Bruce Perlowin -- the west coast's biggest marijuana importer in the seventies -- has been planning a 40-year reunion-festival for the class of 1969. He has gotten some opposit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 26, 2009

    Random Video: Bob Marley at Criteria Studios

    Light your spliff early and watch this video of Bob Marley And The Wailers rehearsing at the famed Criteria Studios, now Hit Factory, in North Miami on September 14, 1980.Marley Fest is this Saturday February 28th. click here for more info 

  • News

    January 15, 2009

    Alms for the Poor

    Cash-strapped public defenders fire back at critics.

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2008

    Throwback Tuesday's--Lil Wayne "Stuntin' Like My Daddy"

    Cash-strapped public defenders fire back at critics.

  • News

    July 10, 2008

    Letters from the Issue of July 10, 2008

    "Marijuana causes many health and social problems. It lowers testosterone levels and causes sterility."

  • Music

    April 17, 2008

    Planet Rock

    The giants of the Sixties and Seventies were also a little "green."

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2008

    10th Annual Medicinal Marijuana Benefit

    The giants of the Sixties and Seventies were also a little "green."

  • Blogs

    October 2, 2006

    Sushi to Your Door -- Maybe

    The giants of the Sixties and Seventies were also a little "green."

  • Blogs

    October 2, 2006

    Sushi to Your Door -- Maybe

    The giants of the Sixties and Seventies were also a little "green."

  • News

    August 31, 2006

    Letters from the Issue of August 31, 2006

    "This movie was refreshing and poignant, and I had to go back twice"

  • Music

    August 17, 2006

    New Skin

    Advance EP (Cleopatra Records)

  • Music

    August 3, 2006

    Brian Posehn

    Live In: Nerd Rage (Relapse)

  • News

    April 20, 2006

    Jump-Out Boys

    Scheming snitches, dirty detectives, intrepid investigators. This ain't The Shield's Strike Team.

  • Calendar

    August 12, 2004

    Dread-less Dolphins

    A new reality dawns

  • Recreation

    May 13, 2004

    BEST PLACE FOR PUBLIC SEX

    Between Collins and Washington avenues on Fourteenth Street

  • Recreation

    May 13, 2004

    BEST PLACE TO BURN A BLUNT

    Bank of America

  • News

    November 28, 2002

    Letters from the Issue of November 28, 2002

    Haitians and Cubans and the unfairness of it all

  • News

    November 7, 2002

    Letters from the Issue of November 7, 2002

    In Denmark we really know how to get stoned

  • Film

    July 13, 2000

    Killer Weed

    Grass leaves the viewer hungry for more.

  • Film

    March 30, 2000

    Smoke This

    Grass

  • News

    July 10, 1997

    Dope Detective

    If it gets you high, chances are that James Hall knows more about it than anyone anywhere

  • News

    June 19, 1997

    Mystery Cruise

    The Lone Ranger gets set for a round-the-world voyage with one of America's last great eccentrics at the helm

  • Music

    April 25, 1996

    Bang a Bong

    The Lone Ranger gets set for a round-the-world voyage with one of America's last great eccentrics at the helm

  • News

    May 4, 1995

    Wipeout! Part 2

    Two citizens corroborate allegations by Surfside patrolmen that police reports were falsified

  • News

    March 2, 1995

    In Havana, On Drugs

    As faith in the revolution sinks to new lows, kids in Cuba are getting high

  • News

    June 16, 1993

    How They Nabbed the Nickel Bag Felon

    Sixty-three-year-old Miami Beach gadfly Stanley K. Shapiro might seem an unlikely enemy, but war is war

  • Music

    April 15, 1992

    Fire It Up

    Didjits are a smoking band who wouldn't mind talking about something else for a change

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