Marijuana Boom - The Rise and Fall of Colombia's First Drug Paradise - Lina Britto

\Lina Britto's Marijuana Boom is a stunning history of transitions and dependencies, from one drug to another: coffee, pot, and cocaine. Britto synthesizes a number of scholarly approaches--including commodity and cultural studies and social, economic, and diplomatic history--to present a work far more valuable than the sum of its methods. Connecting the Andean highlands to the greater Caribbean and then outward to the United States, Marijuana Boom reveals how the seeds, so to speak, of today's..