Meet the First Miami Farm Allowed to Grow Weed Legally

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For years, Homestead and the Redland have been the epicenter of Miami's booming marijuana-growing scene. Of course, the millions of dollars' worth of weed shipped out of South Dade every year has to be produced on the sly in black-market grow houses and is subject to regular raids by law enforcement officials.     

"Costa Farms... looks forward to quickly beginning production of this much-needed medicine to serve some of Florida’s most vulnerable citizens," the farm says in a statement sent to New Times. So it's appropriate that the Redland will also be home to the first farm in Miami's history allowed to grow marijuana plants legally. Costa Nursery Farms, a large-scale operation just off SW 216th Street, yesterday snagged one of five highly sought-after licenses to grow low-THC medicinal pot.

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