With Marijuana Price Down 70%, Colombia Growers Are Bailing
Colombian Marijuana Farmers Fear Chaos When Rebels Disarm
This article is for subscribers only.
On a drug farm miles from anywhere in the central Andean mountains of Colombia, workers are digging up marijuana bushes and replacing them with avocados.
They’ll get no subsidies from a government crop substitution program since the state barely exists in these remote mountains in Cauca province, 30 miles south of Cali. They’re responding instead to a 70 percent crash in prices over the last year after farmers here planted so much marijuana that they saturated the market.