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Marijuana fueled Colombian drug trade before cocaine was king

  • Written by Lina Britto, Assistant Professor of History, Northwestern University
Marijuana fueled Colombian drug trade before cocaine was kingA marijuana trafficker practicing his aim in the Guajira, epicenter of Colombia's first drug boom, in 1979.Romano Cagnoni/Getty Images

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Long before Pablo Escobar’s Medellín cartel got rich supplying Americans with cocaine in the 1980s, Colombia was already...

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