Colombian Cannabis History

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Well it seems that some folks need some clarity in reference to Colombian landrace Cannabis origins and true history not derived from American Drug War propagandist magazines like a 70's issue of TIME; which is worth the read if you can read between the lines and lies.

The following text is pretty self explanatory but in short it documents internal Colombian recreational Cannabis use dating back to the 1930's.

Heres a link to the full document that is in Spanish but i'm sure the curious will easily have it translated by Google or AI.

LA "PREHISTORIA" DE LA MARIHUANA EN COLOMBIA: CONSUMO Y CULTIVOS ENTRE LOS AÑOS 30 Y 60

Ive also included a couple of images of the document with names and dates and all that 'fact worthy' paraphenelia that accompany scientific and scholarly papers and a brief summary translation in English.

Colombias recreational/spiritual Cannabis culture and history were not born in the 60's or even the 50 's or 40's, it goes way further back than any N. American narrative or reference and this is just what has been documented.

Also included a bud of the real non-hybridized Colombian Punto Rojo for your viewing pleasure.

Hope you dig it.

 

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Yeah, that bud pic got me drooling. I'm old enough to have smoked some of the real Columbian a few times in the early 70's. That shit was damn near psychedelic.

 

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It would be great if someone could/would post a translation.

 

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Colombia had followed a different path than the United States regarding cannabis, although, in the end, the results were similar. From apathy, the governments of the mid-twentieth century moved on to its industrial use and prohibition of any other use, as Lina Britto tells in her detailed book The Marijuana Boom: Rise and Fall of the First Drug Paradise in Colombia . In 1947, the policies of the Government of President Mariano Ospina Pérez exemplified this ambivalent relationship with the plant. On the one hand, one of the first initiatives of the newly created Ministry of Agriculture was to import cannabis seeds from India for the country's textile industry. On the other hand, Ospina Pérez criminalized the planting, sale and distribution of cannabis and coca. Subsequent governments toughened the penalties, but crops continued to grow and with them the moralizing campaigns against marijuana. By 1966, Berta Hernández de Ospina, the wife of President Ospina Pérez and a sort of Creole ancestor of Nancy Reagan, complained about the publicity offered by news about drug seizures, as this would lead to “lazy and lazy people” dedicating themselves to drug trafficking. to the marijuana trade.

Victor's father and older brother were one of those “lazy ones.” Like them, in the late 60s and early 70s, thousands of farmers from the interior of the country arrived in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, displaced by violence, driven by unemployment or lack of opportunities, or attracted by plant gold. . There, in the middle of unexplored beaches, cloud forests and virgin jungles, they found an incipient industry based on ancient foundations and a favorable international situation.

Contrary to what legend says, drug crops in Colombia did not begin with the Peace Corps or gringo visionaries and entrepreneurs. Coca had a millenary tradition and workers at the United Fruit Company had begun to plant cannabis for personal consumption at least since the beginning of the twentieth century. In the Sierra, according to Lina Britto's research, a variety that grew nearby in certain areas near the banana area and Dibulla, in La Guajira, was mixed with strains from Hawaii and Mexico to create Santa Marta Gold. The initial variety, in addition to its striking golden color, had a high percentage of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol or THC, one of the 113 cannabinoids in cannabis and its main psychoactive component, but produced small flowers. Local growers with the help of American clients apparently experimented with the other strains until the variety was stabilized.

El vuelo del ‘Mosco’: una breve historia del cannabis en Colombia

Desde hace más de cinco décadas, el cannabis se siembra como cultivo de exportación en Colombia. La bonanza marimbera arreció y menguó, la coca se convirtió en el principal foco de la “guerra contra las drogas” y el país legalizó el cannabis medicinal. Víctor Julio Saavedra, conocido como ‘El Mosco’

www.lamatanomata.com

 

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Cool!

 

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"From ancient Asia to pre-Columbian America"

 

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Colombia had followed a different path than the United States regarding cannabis, although, in the end, the results were similar. From apathy, the governments of the mid-twentieth century moved on to its industrial use and prohibition of any other use, as Lina Britto tells in her detailed book The Marijuana Boom: Rise and Fall of the First Drug Paradise in Colombia . In 1947, the policies of the Government of President Mariano Ospina Pérez exemplified this ambivalent relationship with the plant. On the one hand, one of the first initiatives of the newly created Ministry of Agriculture was to import cannabis seeds from India for the country's textile industry. On the other hand, Ospina Pérez criminalized the planting, sale and distribution of cannabis and coca. Subsequent governments toughened the penalties, but crops continued to grow and with them the moralizing campaigns against marijuana. By 1966, Berta Hernández de Ospina, the wife of President Ospina Pérez and a sort of Creole ancestor of Nancy Reagan, complained about the publicity offered by news about drug seizures, as this would lead to “lazy and lazy people” dedicating themselves to drug trafficking. to the marijuana trade.

Victor's father and older brother were one of those “lazy ones.” Like them, in the late 60s and early 70s, thousands of farmers from the interior of the country arrived in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, displaced by violence, driven by unemployment or lack of opportunities, or attracted by plant gold. . There, in the middle of unexplored beaches, cloud forests and virgin jungles, they found an incipient industry based on ancient foundations and a favorable international situation.

Contrary to what legend says, drug crops in Colombia did not begin with the Peace Corps or gringo visionaries and entrepreneurs. Coca had a millenary tradition and workers at the United Fruit Company had begun to plant cannabis for personal consumption at least since the beginning of the twentieth century. In the Sierra, according to Lina Britto's research, a variety that grew nearby in certain areas near the banana area and Dibulla, in La Guajira, was mixed with strains from Hawaii and Mexico to create Santa Marta Gold. The initial variety, in addition to its striking golden color, had a high percentage of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol or THC, one of the 113 cannabinoids in cannabis and its main psychoactive component, but produced small flowers. Local growers with the help of American clients apparently experimented with the other strains until the variety was stabilized.

El vuelo del ‘Mosco’: una breve historia del cannabis en Colombia

Desde hace más de cinco décadas, el cannabis se siembra como cultivo de exportación en Colombia. La bonanza marimbera arreció y menguó, la coca se convirtió en el principal foco de la “guerra contra las drogas” y el país legalizó el cannabis medicinal. Víctor Julio Saavedra, conocido como ‘El Mosco’

www.lamatanomata.com

I'm familiar with that work and its by no means definitive.

Even less so when you realize how it was commissioned and financed.

You'd have to understand (or believe) that New York University and Harvard have NEVER had Colombias interests at heart but quite the opposite they serve directly to N. American interests and industry.

Or do you think this little book came out of the authors fondness or passion for Cannabis?

And just in time when Colombia is giving birth to legalized Cannabis and a multi-billion dollar industry, what a coincidence.

That you would use ONE of the worst possible cases of American colonial terrorism in Colombia (that is the United Fruit Company ) as some kind of reinforcement to your argument shows me exactly how little you know of our true history and how little you care for it or honestly where your real devotion lies.

AND being a proud Mexican...?

Algo no cuadra.

(A que ni español hablas cierto?)

Oh yes, so i'd love to hear the stories about people smuggling Hawaiian and Mexican Cannabis INTO Colombia in the 30's!

I'm really not sure why a "Mexican" Cannabis aficionado would be so invested in supporting a colonial industry narrative like this, what do you have to gain?

That somehow in that make-believe world Colombian Cannabis is somehow Mexican? Or Thai? Or Afghan?

Ive heard everything and the only people who would be even interested in pushing those narratives; especially people who are not even Colombian or even know our history, are people that have some other vested interest unrelated to our Cannabis culture or history but quite the contrary are trying to subvert it.

I see no other reason honestly.

Is there nothing more important going on in Mexico that your so in love with us?

In the meantime here are some more beautiful Colombian landrace buds for your viewing pleasure.

I love vintage Cannabis photography as much as the next guy but real pictures of real plants are fun too, you should try it!

 

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1st and last pic from last Post