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US CA: Column: Uruguay President's Plan To Sell Marijuana May

 

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URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v12/n419/a07.html

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Pubdate: Tue, 21 Aug 2012

Source: Sacramento Bee (CA)

Copyright: 2012 Miami Herald

Contact: http://mapinc.org/url/0n4cG7L1

Website: http://www.sacbee.com/

Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/376

Author: Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald

 

 

URUGUAY PRESIDENT'S PLAN TO SELL MARIJUANA MAY NOT BE THAT CRAZY

 

Judging from what Uruguayan President Jose Mujica recently told me in an extended interview, there is a real possibility that people in his country will soon be able to buy marijuana legally from a state-regulated company that will be in charge of marketing and selling the drug.

 

Mujica, 78, earlier this month submitted a bill to congress that may be the boldest marijuana legalization proposal anywhere in the world. It calls for the state to "take over the control and regulation of activities related to the importation, production, acquisition, storage, marketing and distribution of marijuana."

 

This would go way beyond what countries such as the Netherlands and Portugal have done in recent decades to in effect decriminalize marijuana use. It also dwarfs recent proposals by Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina and milder versions by the leaders of Colombia and Mexico to start an open debate over legalization of drugs.

 

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MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom

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