Marijuana Boom: The Rise and Fall of Colombia's First Drug Paradise

Marijuana Boom: The Rise and Fall of Colombia's First Drug Paradise
Lina Britto
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Trade Paperback
h229 x 152mm - 344pg
21 Apr 2020 US
International import eta 10-30 days
9780520325470
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Before Colombia became one of the world's largest producers of cocaine in the 1980s, traffickers from the Caribbean coast partnered with American buyers in the 1970s to make the South American country the main supplier of marijuana for a booming US drug market, fueled by the US hippie counterculture. How did Colombia become central to the creation of an international drug trafficking circuit? Marijuana Boom is the story of this forgotten history. Combining deep archival research with unprecedented oral history, Lina Britto deciphers a puzzle: Why did the Colombian coffee republic, a model of Latin American representative democracy and economic modernization, transform into a drug paradise, and at what cost?
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ISBN-13: 9780520325470
Published: 21 Apr 2020
Published In: United States
Imprint: University of California Press
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 344

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