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Marijuana Boom (2020) covers Lina Britto's 2020 book on the marijuana export boom of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and the Guajira: its author, how it was researched, its argument, what it says about the crop, its contents and its published reviews. The trade itself is treated in Bonanza marimbera; the trade name of the Sierra's marijuana in Santa Marta Gold.
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- The book. The article rests on the book itself: its copyright page, acknowledgments, introduction, chapters 2, 3 and 5 and the notes to chapter 3. Page ranges are given by chapter.
- Reviews. Of the English edition, by Wil G. Pansters, Jane M. Rausch, Sharika D. Crawford, Franklin Reynel Bonivento, Julián Gómez-Delgado, Javier Guerrero Castro, Benjamin Smith, María Luisa Ruiz, Aileen Teague, Cameron Hoffman and Luis van Isschot; of the Spanish edition, by Rubén Darío Molina Palacio, Juan-Daniel Guisao-Álvarez and Fernando Salamanca.
- The Spanish edition. Its reviews give different details: Juan-Daniel Guisao-Álvarez names Crítica and the Universidad de los Andes as publishers and 490 pages, Molina Palacio names Editorial Planeta Colombiana and 488 pages, and Fernando Salamanca names Crítica and 496 pages.
Where the sources disagree
- Marimba and mariamba. Britto derives marimba from mariamba, which she gives as the name for hemp among people of African descent on the Caribbean coast, citing Nicolás del Castillo Mathieu's lexicon of African words in Colombian Spanish (1984, p. 143). The lexicon gives mariamba as a Kimbundu word, from a grammar of that language, and asks in a note (p. 143, n. 18) whether marimba comes from it, beside a second hypothesis; its informants in Palenque use marimba for a musical instrument. The article gives the derivation as Britto's.
- Indigenous growers. Britto states in a note to chapter 3 that the Indigenous peoples of the Sierra Nevada have not grown or used marijuana. José Cervantes Angulo's La noche de las luciérnagas (1980) tells of marijuana grown by Indians descended from the Arhuaco, and the Time report of January 1979 that it reprints places a type called mona at the altitudes of the Arhuaco. The article gives Britto's statement as hers.
- The 1947 seed. Britto reports the story that Indian seed imported in 1947 for the textile industry seeded the crops of the Sierra Nevada and the Cauca valley, and found no evidence either way. Darío Betancourt and Martha Luz García (1994) state it as fact.
- The origin of Santa Marta Gold. The account in chapter 3 is the hypothesis of one witness, the agronomist Ariel Martínez, which Britto finds borne out by other sources: a native strain from two places in the Sierra crossed with Hawaiian and Sonoran strains. A magazine article reprinted by Cervantes Angulo (1980) calls Santa Marta Gold the traditional type of the Sierra.