Rafael Caro Quintero is on everyone's mind following his arrest by Mexican authorities on Friday, July 15, 2022.

And although Caro Quintero's name is remembered for the alleged kidnapping and murder of DEA detective Enrique "Kiki" Camarena in 1985, Caro Quintero's name is also mentioned because he completely changed the properties of marijuana.

This product brought millions of dollars to his criminal organization, the Guadalajara Cartel, which he commanded together with Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo.

Caro Quintero's perfected marijuana

During his early days as a criminal in his hometown of Badiraguato, Sinaloa, in northeastern Mexico, Caro Quintero modified marijuana by separating the male from the female plant, which gave the seedless marihuana, or how is commonly referred to as "sensi" meaning "Sin Semilla" or seedless marihuana, which enriches and enhances the potency effects of the herb.

Rafael Caro Quintero is credited with creating seedless marijuana, which raised the level of marijuana production for the Guadalajara Cartel.

While Caro Quintero was not the first to do it, he was the one who perfected it, and that is why he is credited with creating seedless marijuana.

Sinsemilla

In the book Narco-violence and a Failed State? by George W. Grayson, it is said that Caro Quintero was a "shrewd young entrepreneur who turned Mexican marijuana from a second-rate weed into the connoisseur's choice by perfecting a seedless variety of the plant (sinsemilla)".

The success of this modification was quite remarkable and grew the organization that sold tons of it both in the United States, Mexico, and even Europe.

Police in Helicopter

Although its production was decimated after the Mexican Army, with the help of the DEA, seized 9,000 tons of marijuana in 1984 from Rancho El Búfalo, located in the Golden Triangle area, property of Caro Quintero, from where the cartel obtained an annual production of more than eight billion dollars.

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