Corinto
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| Kind of name | Local name |
|---|---|
| Also called | Corintiana Corinteña Corinto Gold |
| Language | Spanish |
| Refers to | Marijuana from the north of Cauca and the seed-grown plant raised there before creepy |
| Country | Colombia |
|---|---|
| Places | Northern Cauca Corinto (appellation) Caloto (appellation) |
| First recorded | 2012[1] |
Corinto (also corintiana or corinteña) is a name used in Colombia for marijuana from the area around the municipality of Corinto, in the north of the department of Cauca, and for the seed-grown type of plant raised there before creepy. The national police count corinto among the four native varieties of Cauca.[2]: 86–87 In 2017 the journalist Sebastián Serrano wrote that Corinto, the rule in Colombian cities fifteen years earlier, had become a rarity there as creepy replaced it.[3]
Name
The journalist Diana Maria Pachón writes of the type called corinto or corintiana;[4] a policy brief of the peace institute CAPAZ calls it corinteña.[5]: 2–3 English-language forum posts write "Corinthian".[6] A seed dealer interviewed in Toribío in 2018 spoke of a variety called Corinto Gold.[2]: 58
In 2016 Serrano found that the indigenous growers near Corinto called it nativa. Olmes Ortiz, president of the Comunidad Cannábica Colombiana, told Serrano that in Medellín the same marijuana was called regular or pangola, and elsewhere cafuche, mango biche or punto rojo: "Esos son nombres que se van pegando" (those are names that stick). Eight members of a Latin American cannabis group on Facebook told Serrano that Corinto was a name for marijuana grown in the region of the municipality, which might have its own flavour and aroma but was not necessarily a variety distinct from the other marijuana grown in Colombia before creepy.[3]
Serrano traced the name to seed that, in the account of Wilson Conde, governor of the indigenous reserve of López Adentro in Caloto, men of the M-19 guerrilla brought to the reserve in the early 1980s. The descendants of that seed, Serrano wrote, were grown in the north of Cauca and carried to the rest of the country, and so took the name of Corinto.[3]
History
A journalist from Riohacha told the historian Lina Britto that in the early years of the marijuana trade on the Caribbean coast, in the late 1960s, the drug was said to come from Corinto, because the marijuana of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta became known only later.[7]: 79 The CAPAZ brief dates the first crops for adult use in Corinto and Toribío to the 1970s; in its account corinteña was carried from there to the Caribbean coast and on to the United States.[5]: 2–3 The seed dealer interviewed in Toribío said that the native varieties, Corinto Gold among them, came to the area from Santa Marta by way of Medellín.[2]: 58
Pachón, visiting a farm off the track from El Palo, in Caloto, towards Tacueyó, found 2,000 plants of corinto up to three metres tall, which took six months to flower. The seed sold at 10,000 pesos a pound, against 50,000 to 250,000 pesos for a packet of five imported seeds. A farmer with 5,000 plants of the native corinto told Pachón that growing imported seed was a habit of white people.[4] In 2012 "Corinto" was grown between Toribío and Miranda and sold at about 170,000 pesos an arroba.[1] A police characterisation published in 2017 describes the native varieties as adapted to the climate of Cauca and taking seven to eight months to harvest, and priced a kilogram of native marijuana at 50,000 to 200,000 pesos in 2016, by quality.[2]: 86–87
A poster on the forum ICMag recalled Corinto as very common in Bogotá in 2003 to 2006.[8] Serrano wrote in 2017 that Corinto had been the rule fifteen years before, still predominated ten years before, and had become a rarity. The reasons he was given were quality and profit. In Medellín, a pound of regular sold for 50,000 to 60,000 pesos and a pound of cripa for 200,000 or more; Julián Quintero of Acción Técnica Social put the THC of the cripa sold in Bogotá at up to 22 per cent, against 7 per cent for a good Corinto. Conde told Serrano that over the previous five years growers had been urged to give up the old plant for the new one, which needed lights and greenhouses but was ready in half the time and paid better.[3] People interviewed by Cruz and Pereira in Toribío gave the same reasons: the native varieties needed more work, yielded less and suffered more from pests.[2]: 85–86
Conde said that some indigenous people still grew the old plant in their gardens, to rub on the skin against pain: "esa planta no era nuestra, no era de aquí, pero la gente aprendió a usarla" (that plant was not ours, it was not from here, but people learned to use it).[3]
Reputation
Smoking the marijuana from López Adentro at a cannabis cup near Cali in 2016, Ortiz told Serrano that it was what he had smoked as a boy. Serrano wrote that Corinto, being cheap and not very strong, is smoked in large joints.[3] A poster writing from Colombia in 2018 said that Corinto was not very highly regarded there;[9] another in 2022 called it "the best grass in Colombia", "far superior to the punto rojo".[6]
Seed sold under the name
The seed seller The Landrace Team sells a line it calls Corinto and describes as a "Pure Colombian variety preserved since the 70's", from lines grown in the vereda of La Cominera, in Corinto, and in Caloto. The seller says that the line was called "Coro" locally, and that collectors also call it "Limon Verde", "Cominera", "Corinto Purple" or "Corinto Monster", and that a Corinto can no longer be found in those places, because Dutch and American hybrids giving three or four crops a year have replaced it.[10]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Graaff, David (4 November 2012). "La guerra en medio de los diálogos de paz". La Silla Vacía (in español). Retrieved 20 October 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Cruz Olivera, Luis Felipe; Pereira Arana, Isabel (November 2021). Laberintos de prohibición y regulación: los grises de la marihuana en Colombia. Colección Dejusticia (in español). Bogotá: Editorial Dejusticia. ISBN 978-958-5597-98-3. Retrieved 20 October 2026.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Serrano, Sebastián (17 April 2017). "Cada vez es más difícil conseguir marihuana nativa en Colombia". VICE en español (in español). Retrieved 2 November 2026.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Pachón, Diana Maria. "Marihuana de Corinto: Cien por ciento campesina" (PDF) (in español). Indepaz. Retrieved 20 October 2026.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Granados, Diana; Rojas, Axel; López, William; Moriones, Germán; Anzola, Sebastián (August 2024). Regular para la paz: recomendaciones para la regulación del cannabis de uso adulto en el norte del Cauca (PDF) (Report). Policy Brief 10-2024 (in español). Bogotá: Instituto Colombo-Alemán para la Paz (CAPAZ). ISSN 2711-0346. Retrieved 20 October 2026.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "The central american landrace and heirloom thread part 1". Overgrow. 17 October 2022. Retrieved 2 November 2026.
- ↑ Britto, Lina (2020). Marijuana Boom: The Rise and Fall of Colombia's First Drug Paradise. Oakland: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-32547-0.
- ↑ "Vintage Colombian". International Cannagraphic Magazine. 3 January 2015. Retrieved 2 November 2026.
- ↑ "Most potent best effect landraces – wtf did I just smoke". Overgrow. 28 January 2018. Retrieved 2 November 2026.
- ↑ "Corinto (The Landrace Team)". SeedFinder. Retrieved 2 November 2026.