Colombian historians cited by the anthropologist William Partridge date the country's first marijuana law to 1928, a year after Costa Rica's. They link the spread of smoking to the Caribbean coast and the Magdalena valley, through ports such as Santa Marta, Barranquilla and Cartagena, and to the movement of workers around the Caribbean after the building of the Panama Canal. Only around 1945 did the press begin reporting clandestine plantations on the Atlantic coast and in the Cauca valley.[1]
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References
- Cannabis and Cultural Groups in a Colombian MunicipioWilliam L. Partridge · In Cannabis and Culture, edited by Vera Rubin · Mouton · 1975 · pp. 148–149 · ISBN 90-279-7669-4
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