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Santa Marta Gold covers the trade name Santa Marta Gold and its English forms (Colombia Gold, Colombian Gold, Santa Marta Golden, Samarian Golden): the forms in print, the explanations given for the name, what writers say the marijuana was, the export grades and colour names of the trade, and seed sold under the name. The boom itself belongs to Bonanza marimbera; the growing area to Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.

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Discussion

Sources

The Wall Street Journal (Everett G. Martin), cited in its reprint in the printed proceedings of the Senate hearing Stopping "Mother Ships" (p. 116). The reprint prints "Nov. 30, 1978" over the article; the record's contents list gives 20 November.
Time, 29 January 1979, "The Colombian Connection": the archive text, credited to Time; the body names the correspondent Donald Neff.
Carlos Antonio Herrera Fernández, in the magazine Guajira: cited in José Cervantes Angulo's reprint (1980, p. 304), which gives no issue or date for the article.
Henman: cited in the eighth edition (2019) of a work first published in 1978; the Spanish quotations are Gabriel Iriarte's translation.
Britto 2020: pages from the book's index (pp. 91, 93–94); the passage on the grades is cited by chapter (ch. 3).
Viloria 1997: cited for the figures of the 1978 thesis by Solórzano and Dangond, which is quoted through Viloria.
Cervantes Angulo 1980 reprints Time, Paris Match and other press reports; it is not a second witness for what it reprints.

Where the sources differ

One plant, a trade type or a grade. Britto (2010) calls it an improved-seed strain, and Britto's informant Ariel Martínez a cross of a native plant with Hawaiian and Sonoran seed. Henman and Herrera Fernández treat it as a trade type, the mona or gold, distinct from punto rojo. Cervantes Angulo and Betancourt and García make "Red Point" and Santa Marta Gold one grade, grade A.
Colombian Gold and Santa Marta Gold. The Wall Street Journal gives them as one name; Time uses both. One of Britto's informants said that in the 1960s Red Point was grown in the Andes and "Colombian Gold did not exist yet". Rada (2018) quotes an account pairing "Colombian Gold o punto rojo" against "Santa Marta Golden". The 1978–79 press treats Colombian Gold as another name for the same export.
The Peace Corps story. Betancourt and García (1994) cite Gálvez (1990) and Arango and Child (1987); the El Tiempo columnist calls it a rumour.
"Gold". Britto: the yellow colour and filigree texture, as in Acapulco Gold. Bonivento van Grieken: the yellowish leaves.

Title, kind and redirects

Title. Santa Marta Gold, the form of the 1978–79 press, with the trade's capitals.
Kind. Trade name: an export name in English for the produce of one region.
Redirects. Colombian Gold, Colombia Gold, Santa Marta Golden, Samarian Golden. Samarian Golden rests on one columnist (Mendieta, 2018) and one seller.
First recorded. 1978, the Wall Street Journal article.
Accessions. The infobox searches "Santa Marta Gold" and "Colombian Gold", which list VIB-COL-UNK-0100000001 and HCG-COL-UNK-0120210001.

Other reports

BBC Mundo (2023) calls Santa Marta Golden "una variedad de marihuana nativa". That is the journalist's characterisation; not used.
El Planteos statement that most marijuana sold under the name is not grown in Santa Marta carries no source; not used.
Mendieta's statement that High Times ranked Samarian Golden and Red Point the world's best names no issue; not used.
The Landrace Team equates its Colombian Gold Lowland with Santa Marta Gold, Samarian Golden and "Caturra", and calls its Highland line an appellation. These are the seller's claims; "Caturra" is also a coffee cultivar. Not used without a second source.

Open questions

Whether the name is in print before 1978, for example in High Times or in Partridge's work of 1974–75.
The date of Herrera Fernández's article in Guajira.