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Why The Illegal Psychoactive Drugs Industry Grew In Colombia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Francisco E. Thoumi
Francisco E. Thoumi*
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California State University-Chico
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The Growth of the illegal, psychoactive drug industry has had a dramatic impact on Colombia. Most studies of the financial effects of this industry — mainly cocaine and its by products, but extending also to marijuana, quaaludes, other psychoactive substances, and, more recently, heroin — have focussed upon trying to estimate its size and determining its impact on the national economy. On the whole, the conclusion of most observers has been that its effects on the latter have been more negative that positive (Kalmanovitz, 1989; Reyes, 1990; Sarmiento, 1990; Urrutia, 1990; Thoumi, 1987).

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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 34 , Issue 3: Special Issue: Drug Trafficking Research Update , Fall 1992 , pp. 37 - 64
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Copyright © University of Miami 1992

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