Quote Originally Posted by yokinazu
acapulco and columbian gold are NOT strains. they are called this the same reason that oil is refered to as black gold. they were the cash crop of that area of the world. they were however sativas, and many differant strains of sativa were refered to as gold.
alot of dealers back in the 70s would call there herb somthin just as a sales gimmik. with no idea where it actually came from.
Do you know this from experience or literature?

I read somewhere that Acapulco Gold was called that because it was grown in the mountains and actually had a gold tint. They talked about it in the show "Drug Years", where they interviewed someone about how they were the first American to find the gold weed. But that show is just for entertainment, so it's not necessarily fact.