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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...five or six times as profitable as growing coffee, corn or cotton. Despite the fact that the government has begun cracking down (it has burned more than 2,000 tons of marijuana since autumn), it is not inclined to be too harsh on the farmers. Says José Miguel Garavito, the swashbuckling operations officer of the Attorney General's antidrug unit: "It is hard to blame a farmer who is growing corn and earning a few pesos for switching when he seen his neighbors working no harder to grow marijuana and earning lots of pesos. The traffickers come in, give them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Colombian Connection | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

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