s plan to set up a legal, regulated marijuana market has reached its final legislative stage, with the Senate expected to approve the plan by late on Tuesday and send it to President José Mujica for his signature. Senators prepared for a long day and night of speeches starting on Tuesday morning. The body is dominated by Mujica's ruling Broad Front coalition, which wants to make Uruguay the world's...
s newest state-sanctioned industry. This week, the country's senate is expected to pass the world's most far-reaching drug legalisation, which should transform Vasquez from a petty criminal into a registered user, grower and ultimately, he hopes, a respected contributor to society. That would be quite a change. After a police raid earlier this year, Vasquez – whose home doubles as a marijuana nursery...
s National Drugs Board, Julio Calzada, said the government would set the price of cannabis low in the hope of pushing drug traffickers out of the market. "The illegal market is very risky and of poor quality," he said. "The price of marijuana from Paraguay that gets sold on the streets here is about $1 a gram, so we're going to set the price of government-controlled cannabis at around that same price....
t have to pretend to have glaucoma any more. 3 However, Uruguay also has one of the most strictly enforced smoking bans in South America. It was initiated in 2006 by then-president Tabaré Vázquez, who remained a practising oncologist throughout his tenure. Vázquez was also president in 2009, when Uruguay became the first country to guarantee every schoolchild a free laptop and wireless internet access...
s drug tsar says the country plans to sell legal marijuana for $1 a gram to combat drug-trafficking, according to a local newspaper. The plan to create a government-run legal marijuana industry has passed the lower house of Congress, and Uruguay's president, José Mujica, expects to push it through the Senate soon as part of his effort to explore alternatives in the war on drugs. The measure would make...
s president, José Mujica, wants to make pot legal. The idea is getting a lot of praise abroad, but criticism at home Uruguay is one of the smallest countries in South America, but it could make a big impact on the world stage because of President José Mujica plan's to make the production, sale and consumption of marijuana legal. If the marijuana legalization proposal becomes a law, Uruguay will be...
s first legal national market for marijuana - and it plans to start sales off at $1 a gram. How will its prices compare? Which countries have the highest prevalence rates for marijuana consumption? Where is drug trafficking an issue? We...
re selling marijuana yet," say Juan and Enrique Tubino. They've had to put up a sign stating: "We don't sell marijuana." It's not just because the Tubino brothers keep their shop packed high with cannabis pipes, herb grinders and rolling paper – or because of the giant green hookah in the display window – that would-be customers are pouring in. The big excitement is because tiny Uruguay, a country...