Family of pot-loving Robert Durst eyes medical-marijuana bid

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The Durst family real-estate empire — which weeded out pot-loving killer Robert Durst from its ranks — is teaming up with a major hospital trade association in a bid to legally grow and dispense medical marijuana.

Durst, 72, has been locked in a New Orleans jail since his March 14 arrest, when FBI agents found a revolver and marijuana in his hotel room, his latest in a string of pot-fueled follies.

Durst also is facing extradition to California to face charges that he killed his longtime friend Susan Berman after she’d been contacted by the Westchester County DA, who was investigating the 1982 disappearance of Durst’s wife, Kathleen.

Durst had testified that he kept five pounds of high-grade marijuana in the freezer of his home in Galveston, Texas, where his self-defense stance helped him beat a murder rap in the shooting death of a neighbor.

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