By Aiuri Rebello and Santiago Torrado
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – (El Pais) There is a new drug in the Brazilian illegal drug market that is progressively gaining space among dealers and users nationwide. It is Colombian marijuana, known as “Colombia,” “colombinha,” “colom,” “cripa,” or “creepy,” depending on the producing region.
The drug coming mostly from regions controlled by armed groups that operate in the neighboring country’s Pacific Ocean Corridor looks different, is of better quality, stronger, and more expensive than the Paraguayan marijuana that traditionally supplies most of the country.
Trafficker shows Colombian marijuana (left), known as “colombinha” in São Paulo, and Paraguayan marijuana, known as “prensado”. (Photo Anderson Prado)