Despite ongoing efforts by the Florida Legislature to thwart the will of the people, Florida likely has the fastest-growing medical marijuana program in the nation. More than 213,000 people are enrolled, with 10,000-plus signing up every month. New York, by comparison, implemented its medical marijuana program 18 months…
Never having been a pot smoker, Martha Bueno was surprised when the marijuana she began vaping from a local dispensary in 2017 helped allay the need to remove her thyroid. The 40-year-old vice chair of the Libertarian Party of Miami-Dade had multiple polyps and cysts growing on both lobes of her…
Well, America, it took us 243 years, but it looks as if we’re finally, maybe (sort of) becoming just a bit cool about weed. This was a shockingly tough hangup for us to overcome. For some reason, this country was able to tolerate hard liquor, addictive prescription drugs, a reality…
Dressed in a white guayabera and loose-fitting grandpa jeans, Robert Platshorn walks onto a small stage set up in the clubhouse of Lakes of Delray, a 55-and-over condo development in Delray Beach. About 300 snow-haired residents sit on dining-room chairs on a midafternoon in early March. They’ve shown up to…
Will Florida legalize recreational pot? Medical marijuana is already legal. But who really cares? It’s all bad for Miami’s black community, where weed has helped drive the economy for years. What governments aren’t even mentioning is paying reparations to black-dominated countries or African-Americans who have or will lose their livelihoods…
Less than a month after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill permitting the smoking of medical marijuana, Florida House Republicans are rallying for more restrictions nobody asked them to write. Leading the latest Prohibition-style drive is Fort Myers Beach Rep. Ray Rodrigues, who is sponsoring a bill to cap smokable marijuana at 10 percent THC.
According to Ricky, a “weed fairy” followed him after his retirement. Not literally, figuratively. We think. From Fuji to Australia, strangers would pull Ricky back into the comforting arms of cannabis.
In Miami, you can find a drive-thru for croquetas, flan, tres leches, and even vaca frita. Beginning today, you can also pick up pot — provided you have a medical marijuana card.
More than two years after voting overwhelmingly to legalize medical marijuana, Floridians are still fighting for access. Smoking it remained illegal until just days ago. And in cities like Miami Beach, officials are hellbent on restricting where and how dispensaries can operate. Other places, including Boca Raton and Coral Springs,…
The Florida House of Representatives this afternoon agreed to allow smokable medical marijuana in the state, opening the way for Gov. Ron DeSantis to seal the deal and make it law. Since Florida voters approved medical marijuana by more than 70 percent and Gov. Rick Scott’s Legislature banned the smokable stuff…
Florida is closer than ever to legalizing recreational, adult-use marijuana. That’s according to State Sen. Randolph Bracy and State Rep. Michael Grieco, who have introduced new measures aimed at placing the legalization of recreational pot in voters’ hands in the November 2020 general election.
In November 2016, 80 percent of Miami Beach residents voted to legalize medical marijuana. More than two years later, the city has only a single dispensary — and now one commissioner wants to prevent others from opening.
“Marijuana legalization is coming,” Sen. Randolph Bracy says as he talks up his resolution that would place the legalization of recreational marijuana in voters’ hands in the November 2020 general election. “There are going to be a couple of bills proposed this year to regulate it,” he says, “But…
In a case that illustrates America’s bizarre and quasi-colonial relationship with the Bahamas, the U.S. Coast Guard announced today that, while its officers were just buzzing around in Bahamian airspace over Andros Island, about 154 miles from Miami, its officers “smelled” marijuana…
When 62-year-old cancer survivor Jer Valentino set out to obtain his medical marijuana card, the Naples, Florida, resident had to wait two weeks before he could even see a doctor. Another three months and several hundred dollars later, he finally had the pot he needed to treat the…
Twenty-seven months have passed since Floridians overwhelmingly voted for the right to access medical marijuana. But you wouldn’t know it by the way the previous administration obstructed access, slowed implementation, and denied the will of the people. Nearly 200,000 patients in Florida have used this medicine for relief from terminal…
OK, we’re just gonna put it to you straight: Getting a medical marijuana card in Florida isn’t exactly the quickest or most affordable process. In all, it can take several weeks and run you $200 to $300 in initial fees before your ID card arrives in the…
The revolution is here. Knox Medical, one the state’s largest medical marijuana companies and the only one based here, opened its first local dispensary about two weeks ago at 175 NW 167th St. in North Miami Beach. The company plans five stores in Miami-Dade County, a Knox spokesman, Scott Klenet, said this…
Twice a week, John Kondelka, a 96-year-old Air Force veteran, boards a Go-Go Grampa bus in Hollywood and rides an hour or so, all the way to Kendall, to see his 92-year-old lady friend, an also-retired social worker and flight attendant named Genevieve Kennedy. He wears a string tie sometimes. She’s, well,…
Miami area police wrapped up 2018 by arresting more people for possession of less than twenty grams of marijuana than they did the last two years — despite the fact cops can simply hand out tickets for the offense instead.
Miami New Times is looking for a freelance reporter to cover Florida’s burgeoning marijuana scene. The ideal candidate will have a college degree and at least one year of experience reporting on public policy for a credible news publication.
Two court decisions and a petition drive could spark a revolution.
