Marijuana boom : the rise and fall of Colombia's first drug paradise / Lina Britto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Britto, Lina, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drug traffic--Colombia--History.

Drug traffic.

Drug control--Colombia--History.

Drug control.

History.

Colombia.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 332 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]

Summary:

"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 US counterculture. Marijuana Boom offers a unique and in-depth perspective to this forgotten history. Combining archival research with extensive fieldwork, Lina Britto puts together fragmented pieces of evidence in order to understand the constellation of factors that produced the perfect storm, one that subverted life in a corner of the Caribbean, and changed Colombia for decades to come"-- Provided by publisher.

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Britto, Lina. Marijuana boom.

ISBN:

9780520325456

0520325451

9780520325470

0520325478

OCLC:

1111653676