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Maxwell 97-797 herbarium gathering, Mae Taeng (1997)
Maxwell 97-797 is a herbarium accession of Cannabis sativa collected near Pah Dang, a red Lahu village in Geut Chang subdistrict, Mae Taeng District, Chiang Mai Province, northern Thailand, on 30 July 1997 by J.F. Maxwell. The California Academy of Sciences holds a sheet as catalogue 1781016, published by GBIF as preserved specimen occurrence 6408927556. The Forest Herbarium (BKF) in Bangkok holds a duplicate as accession BKF 121956, barcode SN 118283.
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Estudios ambientales en la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (1986)
Estudios ambientales en la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta afectada por cultivos de marihuana y fumigación con glifosato (Environmental studies in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta affected by marijuana crops and glyphosate spraying) is a report written in 1986 by three officials of INDERENA, the Colombian government's institute for renewable natural resources and the environment. It describes a field commission to the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, made with the anti-narcotics police of Magdalena, to see the state of a mountain range cleared for marijuana and sprayed from the air with glyphosate, and to set the terms of reference for a study of the spraying's effects on the environment. It gives the altitudes and river valleys that clearing for the marijuana boom had reached by 1986.
The report is a government agency's case against the spraying programme of another branch of the same government, and it is evidence of that dispute as much as it is a survey of the mountains. Its short history of marijuana in the Sierra Nevada is cited to a botanist whose volumes say something else.
INDERENA, the Instituto Nacional de los Recursos Naturales Renovables y del Ambiente, had warned the government against aerial spraying of marijuana with herbicides from 1978. In a letter of 19 June 1978 it asked for an environmental study of the areas before any spraying, as the national code of renewable natural resources required. In August 1984 it wrote again, this time that it opposed spraying the national parks with glyphosate. The report gives the same history in its own words: two letters from INDERENA's management to the director of the National Police, of 1978 and 1984, setting out terms of reference for a study, to which the police did not reply. …
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