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  Medical Marijuana Concert at the Wow House Continues Fighting Pot Stigma

  September 13 at 9:22 a.m.

  Pot is awesome. Recreational weed is a giggly good time. However, for millions of people, marijuana can be a life-transforming wonder drug. The founder of the annual Medical Marijuana Concert, who's known simply as Flash, has known this fact for a long time. “We’ve gone from being a fringe issue to being much more mainstream"...

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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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  Miami-Dade Police Give Most Pot Citations to White People, While Black People Are Jailed

  September 7 at 8:59 a.m.

  Of the 10,078 total citations issued between July 1, 2015, and July 1, 2018, 72 percent — or 7,268 — were given to white people. Twenty-eight percent — or 2,789 — were given to black people.

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  Miami Cops Needlessly Arrest Thousands of Pot Smokers

  August 28 at 8 a.m.

  Two more blocks and Polini Sanon would have made it home. The 31-year-old father of five had just left his job as a Wells Fargo banker on a Friday night in 2017 when his life took an unexpected turn. It was just a few minutes past 6 p.m. but already...

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  Miami-Dade's Fifth Medical Marijuana Dispensary Opening in Dadeland

  August 15 at 3 p.m.

  Medical pot is on the rise in Florida. Since voters legalized medical marijuana and low-THC cannabis in the November 2016 general election, Florida has added 144,557 patients to the Office of Medical Marijuana Use's user registry, according to the Department of Health’s latest update. For a state with a population of 21 million, about one in 145 Floridians can legally use medical weed.

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  John Morgan Wants to Get Recreational Marijuana on Florida's 2020 Ballot

  June 27 at 3:14 p.m.

  Legal recreational weed in Florida just got closer to becoming a reality. John Morgan, the Orlando attorney whose fortune and advocacy helped bring medical marijuana to the Sunshine State, says he's throwing his weight behind an effort to get recreational pot on the ballot in 2020.