Uruguay votes to legalize marijuana sale & growth

The lower house of Uruguay's legislature voted by majority
to allow the cultivation and sale of marijuana.
A vote by their senate to approve is pending
and should occur later this year.

Currently, consumption of marijuana Is legal in Uruguay,
which sort of sets up a conflicting situation.
Those who legally smoke the herb,
have to commit a crime in order to obtain the herb.
This has enhanced the growth (pun intended) of organized crime.

Instead, Uruguay wants to regulate the growth & sale.
It is proposed that only people age 18 and over will legally be able
to get the herb at the pharmacy at a price much cheaper than can be
gotten illegally.

They feel this will help drive the drug cartels out of business
and if this is successful that other South & Central American
countries will follow this lead and do the same.

Here the original CNN story
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Uruguay sees enormous spike in tourism interest - airlines buy more planes to cater to the huge influx of hippie mungbeans flying in from all over the world. Parliment too stoned to care.laugh
Our government must take note as the poorest part of our country is the best part for growing marijuana. With the tax generated from the sales government will maybe able to afford building real roads in the Eastern Cape and especially the Transkei. Only minibus taxis and 4x4's can survive on what they call roads.
checking flights and accomadation now rolling on the floor laughing
Potheads in America have been requesting the US govt. take an identical path and totally decriminalize marijuana since the 1950s. The feel (with some justification) that the original legislation to ban it and many other drugs which had been totally legal to purchase, possess or grow in the 1920s was snuck by the American people and accompanied by special interest groups pouring money into untrue propaganda against marijuana favoring the legislation and placed on a rocket docket so as to avoid public debate about the legislation before it passed. Also due to many news media intentionally not covering the pending legislation the new laws came as something of a shock to those who had legally been growing and selling the cannabis. Even the US Navy was caught off guard and had to get a specific exemption because ropes made of hemp were among the best in the world for naval purposes.

So, view this and what happens in Uruguay as a test. If it works you may see a similar de-criminilization push here in the US. Quite simply Uruguay had indeed been fighting the drug war in the traditional US directed way, but there were growing body counts and before they slid into the Hell experienced by Columbia and Bolivia and Mexico, they decided to try a different way. Power to them.
woot-woot for Uruguay cheering
Society in Latin American countries is not ready for this.
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