Marijuana boom the rise and fall of Colombia's first drug paradise
"Before Colombia became one of the main producers of cocaine in the world in the 1980s, traffickers from the Caribbean coast partnered with American buyers in the 1970s to make this South American country the principal supplier of marijuana for the largest market in the world at the time, the U...
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Oakland, California
University of California Press
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : a forgotten history
- Wheels of progress : tropical commodities and regional formation
- Coming from the mountain : coffee contraband and marijuana smuggling
- Santa Marta gold : technological adaptations and boom
- Parranderos : Vallenato music and cultural negotiations
- Two peninsulas : Narcotics diplomacy and the war on drugs
- Reign of terror : criminalization and violence
- Conclusions : a remembered history
