Patimorada
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| Kind of name | Local name |
|---|---|
| Language | Spanish |
| Refers to | A type of marijuana grown around Toribío and in the north of Cauca, called a kind of creepy |
| Country | Colombia |
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| Places | Northern Cauca Toribío (appellation) |
| First recorded | 2021[1] |
Patimorada is a local name in the north of the department of Cauca, Colombia, for a type of marijuana grown around Toribío. A grower in Toribío told the newspaper El Espectador in 2022 that it was the type most sown there at the time, for its high THC content, and that it took its name from the colour of its stem.[2] Growers and researchers place it among the types called creepy; two people quoted in 2021 counted it with the older native varieties.[1]: 58, 86
A kind of creepy
A person interviewed in Toribío in March 2017 by the Dejusticia researchers Luis Felipe Cruz and Isabel Pereira said that every indica type grown from cuttings without seed was called creepy, a generic name and not a variety. Of the four kinds under it the interviewee named patimorada, blanca rusa and manzanita. Patimorada was the commonest, the interviewee said, because it was adapted to the place and did not suffer from fungus: "Se adapta muy bien, tiene poco olor, pero la planta es muy linda y sale grande" (it adapts very well and has little smell, but the plant is very beautiful and grows big). Growers liked it for its harvest.[1]: 58
A 2025 study by the drug-policy centre CESED of the Universidad de los Andes, based on interviews with five growers and community leaders in the north of Cauca and eight former sellers in Cali between October 2023 and December 2024, found two ways of growing marijuana for adult use there. The "standard" one, based mainly on patimorada, aimed at volume, and accounted for 90 per cent of crops in the period of the study; the other used varieties called "exotic", for quality and price per gram. The study calls patimorada a marijuana of the creepy type, more resistant to changes in the climate than the native strains, with less leaf and easier to grow. According to the informants its THC averaged 18.5 per cent, and its cultivation became standard locally after creepy-type marijuana spread.[3]: 12–13
Among the native varieties
Two other people interviewed in Toribío in 2018 placed patimorada with the older varieties. One, a promoter of medical cannabis in the municipality, said that the Colombian native varieties, "la Santa Marta, punto rojo y patimorada", came from a time when hemp was grown, which in the interviewee's view explained their mildness.[1]: 46 Another said that when creepy and feminised seed arrived, punto rojo and patimorada came to an end, because the native plants, described as hermaphrodite, could pollinate the crops grown from feminised seed and spoil them.[1]: 85–86
In the legal market
El Espectador reported in 2022 that the multinational cannabis company Clever Leaves, which had sold extracts and medicines since 2018, expected to sell dried flower of several genetics, patimorada among them, by the end of that year.[2]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 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.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "El pesebre de marihuana que crece en el norte del Cauca". El Espectador (in español). 23 July 2022. Retrieved 20 October 2026.
- ↑ Restrepo, David; Cuéllar, Luisa (May 2025). Descifrando el cannabis recreativo: composición y dimensionamiento del sistema productivo de la marihuana desde el suroccidente colombiano (Report). Documento temático 52 (in español). Bogotá: Centro de Estudios sobre Seguridad y Drogas (CESED), Universidad de los Andes. Retrieved 2 November 2026.