Psychoactive Drugs

Man Arrested During His Florida Honeymoon for Soliciting a Prostitute

Generally, honeymoons should be sex-filled jaunts, but the general rule is that the sex should be with your new spouse, and not, say, an Orlando-area prostitute you met online. Especially when your new spouse doesn't know about it. A 21-year-old man named Mohammed Ahmed was charged with solicitati ... More >>

Ultra 2013: Five New and International Names for Molly, According to UMF Ravers

We found Molly. And if we're ever at an electronic dance music festival in Brazil, we'll know to keep an eye out for balas. Similarly, next time we're in Ecuador and someone offers us pepas, we'll know they're taking about MDMA, at least according to Ultra Music Festival 2013 attendee Esteban Orti ... More >>

Bankrupt Banah Sugar Employed Ex-Coke Traffickers and Raised Thousands For Dominican President

As his Hialeah sugar company burned through cash and failed to pay employees, vendors, and landlords, Alexander I. Perez gave plum jobs to former drug-trafficker buddies and raised bundles of cash for Danilo Medina, president of the Dominican Republic.Two weeks ago, Perez's Banah Sugar filed for Cha ... More >>

Marleys, 2 Chainz, and Future at Nine Mile Music Festival March 2

Comedian Steve Berke Talks "Pot Shop" Parody Video

Justin Bieber at American Airlines Arena January 26 and 27

War on Drugs Fail: Heroin Deaths Back on the Rise in Florida After Pill Mill Crackdown

Here's the truth about the war on drugs: You can pass new laws. You can carry out police stings. You can put people behind bars. You can squash one growing probably, like Florida did with pill mills. And, yet, even after all of that people are still going to find ways to abuse drugs.See, heroin deat ... More >>

$2.7 Million Worth of Cocaine Seized at Miami Airport

It takes a lot of balls to straight up pack your luggage full of nothing but cocaine. For an unknown drug trafficker that gamble didn't pay off.Federal customs agents at Miami International Airport uncovered 230 pounds of cocaine packed inside three suitcases yesterday.

Florida Teacher Taught Third Grade Class While High on Marijuana and Opiates

There are only a few jobs we recommend doing while high on marijuana: Reggae singer, surrealist artist, and Lil Wayne's personal assistant are among them. Third-grade teacher is not.Elizabeth Edmonds, a third-grade teacher in Leesburg, Florida, was recently suspended after she went to school high as ... More >>

7-Year-Old Forced to Smoke Pot at Gunpoint

"Honestly officer, I didn't mean to get high. Someone pointed a gun to my head and made me do it.""Yeah, likely story, kid.""No, seriously. I'm a seven-year-old and some crazy f'n mad man pointed a gun to my head and forced me to smoke pot."

Woman Tried to Smuggle Crack Pipe Into Florida Jail In Her Vagina

Body scanners aren't just found in airports and apparently crack pipes aren't just found between your lips (of the mouth variety anyway).Ronnie Ann Richards was being booked into a St. Lucie County jail when a body scan uncovered an object in her lady parts. Turned out it was a crack pipe.

Boom Goes the Synthetic Pot: Palm Beach Man Sues After Drug Lab Explosion Burns His Business

When it comes to finding a home for your small business, there are a lot of factors to consider: the cost of rent, where your customers are located, how much space you need. But it's also worth trying to figure out if your neighbors run a drug lab full of unstable, highly flammable chemicals that co ... More >>

Mugshots Friday: Daddy's Girl

​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 th ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Reader mail: Gay-bashing Buju Banton needs to make peace with the Lord

One-Legged Drug Dealer Attempts to Hop Away from Police in Jacksonville

As the suspect was not Rose McGowan in Planet Terror, he didn't pose much of a threat. ​What do you call a drug dealer with one leg trying to escape from police? Caught.No, this isn't open mic night at the Chuckle Hut, this is quite naturally real Florida news.

1,300 Pot Plants Seized After 25 Miami Grow Houses Busted in "Operation Machete"

​Twenty-five people were arrested yesterday after Miami-Dade police discovered 25 separate hydroponics labs in the county during a crackdown dubbed "Operation Machete." Besides the alleged criminals, police also seized more than 1,300 pot plants during the daylong sweep.

Jam Cruise 10 with Umphrey's McGee, Galactic, Bruce Hornsby on MSC Poesia January 9-14

Matchmaking With Mugshots, a Nervous Chuckle, and a Beard-Off

​​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 >>

The Bleached-Blonde Carjackers, Gangsta John Waters, and God

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 >>

John Stirling, Canadian Busted With 800 Lbs of Coke, Tells FBI "There's Nothing Wrong With Cocaine Trafficking"

​A tip for all you would-be cocaine kingpins: When the FBI catches you off the coast of Colombia with more than 800 pounds of yeyo stashed in your boat, do not argue that "there is nothing wrong with cocaine trafficking." That's exactly the tact John Philip Stirling, a 60-year-old Canadian captain ... More >>

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. .

A Boy Named Barbara, Flattop Moustache, And What You See When You Die

​Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week 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 series.

Mugshots Friday: A Meta T-Shirt, A Pimp's Broken Spirit, and Beards, Beards, Beards

​Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week 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 series.

Miami Beach City Attorney Says Marijuana Decriminalization Petition Doesn't Pass Legal Muster

​Despite 9,000 Miami Beach citizens signing a petition to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana, the city's attorney said that creating such a law is an impossibility. The attorney claims that such an action would conflict with state law.

Will Da Real One's murder left many questions

But a tight-knit group is ready to keep preaching the word.

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 >>

Five Steps to Becoming a Bona Fide Tiësto Fan

​Even if you can't tell house from techno and you've never even been to a rave, you know Tiësto. That's because he is the everyman's EDM disc jockey. He's the DJ that your mom plays on her iPod when she goes out jogging. He's a household name. But that doesn't mean he's readily accessible to the ... More >>

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

He Speak Americano

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 >>

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 >>

Letters from the issue of April 28, 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 >>

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.

Andres Lopez exposes the Colombian cartels

Get Metro Zu's Electrozlapp Mixtape for Free

Art by Freebase​Party people of Miami: Do you like going to the mall, making money, eating drugs, talking shit, scamming hos, riding dirty? Do you know what a basshead knapsack is? Do you now, or have you ever bought mass quantity of ecstasy pills for your own recreational use?If you answered yes ... More >>

5th Street Gym reopens

Woman Traveling Home From Miami Drug Trip Caught With Drug Straws in Vagina

​While state laws are trying to put a stop to South Florida's notorious pill mills, the area is still a popular destination for those looking to load up on illicit substances. Kelly Mowery and four others recently made a bit of an OxyContin shopping trip in Miami. While returning to Tennessee by v ... More >>

Is excited delirium killing coked-up, stun-gunned Miamians?

Massive Police Sting Nets 2,369 Pounds of Pot Worth $9.4 Million

A massive sting on Wednesday uncovered 49 hydroponic labs in Miami-Dade and put 42 people behind bars. The pot is believed to have a street value of $9.2 million. Police also found 11 grams of cocaine, 40 grams of processed marijuana, 126 Oxycontin pills, an Audi, and $9,562 in cash.The sting, known ... More >>

Fumble-Prone Former Dolphin Sammie Smith Gets Civil Rights Back

"Sammie Sucks. Sammie Sucks," chants are long since gone from Miami Dolphin home games, as is the unfortunate and short-lived pro football career of former running back Sammie Smith. But things finally seem to be turning around for one of the most hated Dolphins of all time. After finishing up a sev ... More >>

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 >>

Dancing, Drugs, and Fine Dining

Sounds Like Drugs and Is Just as Good

Adrianna's Fall

A teenager plummets from a luxury high-rise, leaving behind a mystery.

Marijuana Goes Upstate

Florida moves into the number two spot when it comes to grow houses

The Tokin' Few

Meet the "magnificent" Irvin Rosenfeld