Colorado marijuana industry cited in Miami growhouse trial

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Ricardo Varona is accused of trafficking the drug in Southwest Miami-Dade

He claims he grew the plants to help ease his wife’s cancer-related suffering

A pot businessman testified the defendant’s operation was ‘amateur’

With its established medical and recreational pot industry, Colorado loomed large Thursday over the trial of a Miami man who insists he operated a marijuana growhouse only to help ease the suffering of his cancer-stricken wife.

A successful Colorado purveyor of legal pot explained to jurors the nuances of marijuana strains, cultivation and state regulations. A neurologist testified the western state’s entrepreneurs are “literally spending hundreds of millions in a rush to patent their formulas of therapeutic form of cannabis.”

And Maria Varona told jurors she must now travel to Colorado to buy edible marijuana goods and cancer prevention pills since her husband was busted for cannabis trafficking in Southwest Miami-Dade...

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