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  Miami PD Backs Off Plan Letting Cops Use Drugs After New Times Story

  October 8 at 8 a.m.

  Miami Police officers nearly just won the right to do drugs and get away with it. Last month, New Times obtained a copy of the police department's new labor contract, and its language would let cops caught doing illegal drugs keep their jobs as long as they entered rehab after failing a drug test. Many critics found the rule hypocritical because one of the police department's main jobs is to arrest people doing drugs.

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  Venezuelan Intelligence Official Indicted for Drug Trafficking Sues Informants for Defamation

  October 1 at 9:30 a.m.

  The U.S. government says Pedro Luis Martin Olivares is an international drug trafficker who exploited his position in the Venezuelan government to move narcotics through his country. According to U.S. officials, he "facilitated the movement of cocaine," "accepted bribes from drug traffickers," "bribed other Venezuelan officials," and "worked closely with other...

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  Five Signs Miami Should Just Fully Decriminalize Marijuana Already

  September 22 at 9 a.m.

  Miami-Dade kinda decriminalized marijuana in 2015. That year, the county commission gave police officers the option of issuing civil tickets, like traffic fines, instead of arresting people caught with 20 grams of pot or less. The measure was hailed as a massive win for justice-reform advocates, who rightfully argue that pot possession is harmless and not worth jail time.

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  Five Times Florida Cities and Local Officials Tried to Stonewall Medical Marijuana

  September 16 at 8 a.m.

  Medical marijuana is legal in Florida for the simple reason that more than 70 percent of voters wanted it to be legal. But despite that overwhelmingly clear mandate in November 2016, legislators in Tallahassee have dragged their feet on setting statewide rules like petulant kids getting hauled to the dentist.

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  Miami City Employee Says He Was Fired for Using Medical Marijuana

  September 10 at 8 a.m.

  More than 70 percent of Floridians voted to legalize medical marijuana in 2016, yet many local governments still have bizarrely hostile relationships with pot. Take the City of Miami. Despite the fact that Miami-area cops have the option to issue tickets for weed, a New Times investigation found that they're instead...

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  Man Convicted of Key West Bombing Plot Says He Was Just Trying to Make Cocaine

  August 31 at 8:30 a.m.

  According to the feds, Harlem Suarez was a radical, an extremist, and an imminent danger to the public. In the summer of 2015, a confidential informant recorded the 23-year-old plotting to bomb a public beach in the Florida Keys, and investigators found an arsenal of explosive materials inside his apartment. After a three-month investigation, FBI agents swarmed Key West and charged him with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction.