As part of Florida's efforts to crack down on pill mills, the state initiated an online database in 2009 that tracked the store prescribing and dispensing data for controlled substances.

Well, according to the ACLU, the private medical data of more than 3,000 Floridians has now leaked from that database.

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Miami has a serious pot problem.

According to a study released yesterday by the ACLU, Miami-Dade is one of the most aggressive and racially biased counties in the country when it comes to marijuana arrests.

Not only did Miami have the ninth most marijuana arrests of any American city in 2010, but 57 percent of those arrests targeted African-Americans. That means Miami's black residents are 5.4 times as likely to be arrested for weed possession than whites -- the fifth worst racial disparity in the nation.

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- Miami-Dade TNT Unit Loses the War on Drugs and Liberty City's Trust

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Hialeah Police Sgt. Tomas Muñoz wants you to know he's not some sort of coke fiend. He's merely an innocent public servant who happens to be dating a prostitute with an evil pimp.

Muñoz was arrested over the weekend on charges of possession of cocaine and drug paraphernalia after drugs and a crack pipe were found in a hotel room he had rented with the woman.

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A day after a bill that would ban the sale of bongs and certain pipes in Florida overwhelming passed the Florida House, its sister bill found similarly broad support in the Senate. The bill passed the legislative body 31-2 today, and will now head to Gov. Rick Scott.

Though, the bill has been considerably watered down since its inception and would have virtually no effect.

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- Anti-Bong Bill Passes Florida House 112-3

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While other states are legalizing medicinal marijuana and decriminalizing possession of small amounts of pot, Florida is going in the exact opposite direction. A bill that would ban the sale of pipes and bongs that could be used to smoke marijuana passed the state House yesterday with a lopsided 112-3 vote.

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- Ten Homemade Smoking Options if the State Bans Bongs and Glass Pieces (New Times Broward-Palm Beach)

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Someone contact Cedric Gervais, because molly was found at the Feinberg Fisher K-8 school in Miami Beach this afternoon. Two 14-year-old students were apparently experimenting with the drug and had to be rushed to the hospital after complaining about a rapid heartbeat.

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Ever get home and regret eating that gas-station hot dog earlier in the day? You got nothing on Norman Mosch. Or maybe you have a friend who always talks you into doing stuff you inevitably question later, like that extra shot of Patrón at LIV? Norman Mosch scoffs at your woe.

Police say Mosch, 65, was pitched the idea by his buddy Leslie McLeary that they would take a cruise to Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, and while there ingest baggies of cocaine -- in Mosch's case 87 of them, weighing a little more than two pounds.

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Monroe County Deputy Jaime Miranda pulled into a Winn-Dixie parking lot Saturday night and left with a whole lot of beef -- the kind of beef that will get you a crapload of time in the joint. Miranda is accused of buying drugs from an informant, all while in uniform in his police car like Denzel Washington in Training Day.

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Despite Florida Governor Rick Scott's idea to drug test people receiving state assistance turning out to be an embarrassing failure on multiple levels, a Republican congressman from Tennessee has decided to take the idea national.

Rep. Stephen Fincher of Frog Jump, Tennessee has introduced a bill that would require all states to randomly drug test 20 percent of the residents that receive welfare. So much for civil liberties and state's rights.

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Come 2014, Florida may join the ranks of states that legalize medical marijuana. There is talk of putting the measure on the ballot in the next state-wide election, and a new poll conducted by People United for Medical Marijuana finds that nearly seven out of ten Floridians back the idea.

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