Marijuana fueled Colombian drug trade before cocaine was king

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By The ConversationNov 10, 2020, 10:00 am150 pts
The big idea Long before Pablo Escobar's Medellín cartel got rich supplying Americans with cocaine in the 1980s, Colombia was already the United States' main source of illicit drugs – specifically, marijuana. That's the takeaway of my new book “Marijuana Boom.” This debunks the popular notion of Escobar…

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