The Rise of Marijuana Trafficking Part I

In this episode, we do a deep dive into how marijuana grew in Mexico, the subsequent rejection of it, and how a counterculture used it as the plant of its movement. We also do a deep dive into the start of counternarcotics campaigns.

Sources for this episode are:

• El Siglo de Drogas by Luis Astorga

• Drug Trafficking in Mexico: A First General Assessment - by Luis Astorga

• Home Grown: Marijuana and the Origins of Mexico's War on Drugs By Isaac Campos

• El Cartel de Sinaloa by Diego Enrique Osorno

• El Narco by Ioan Grillo

• The Dope by Benjamin T. Smith

• The 1972 Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs By Edward M. Brecher and the Editors of Consumer Reports Magazine

• Operation Intercept: The Perils of Unilateralism by Kate D ...