Uruguay: the House says yes to the legalization of marijuana

    Uruguay: the House says yes to the legalization of marijuana

    New air in Uruguay, where the Chamber of Deputies has just preliminarily approved a bill to legalize marijuana. With 50 votes in favor out of 96, the measure will make it lawful to plant, consume and sell cannabis, even within certain limits.


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    New air in Uruguay, where the Chamber of Deputies has just preliminarily approved a bill for legalize marijuana. With 50 votes in favor out of 96, the measure will make it lawful to plant, consume and sell cannabis, albeit within certain limits.

    If the yes of the Senate, Uruguay would become the first country in the world where the state has full control of the entire process of producing and selling marijuana. While in the US there is talk of opening one Chain of stores, a little further south the legalization of cannabis is now one step away.

    The bill, published in June 2012 as part of a series of measures to combat growing violence, it requires the state to take over and regulate the import, planting, cultivation, harvesting, production, acquisition, storage and ultimately marketing and distribution of cannabis and its derivatives.

    After the yes of the Senate, users, upon registration, will be able to buy up to 40 grams of cannabis per month in pharmacies, but they will also be able to have their own cultivation for up to 6 plants and a yield that does not exceed 480 grams. Not a little.

    La decriminalization, a project considered by some controversial, was promoted by President José Mujica. It reads on viewer that 63% of the population was against such a solution according to a recent poll conducted by Cifra.

    Now the opinion of the Senate is awaited, which will be able to establish whether or not cannabis and derivatives will be able to circulate freely in the country. In any case, the provision provides for the creation of a state body who will take care of regulating the sector.



    If so, Uruguay would be the first country in the world where the management of soft drugs would become a state affair.

    Francesca Mancuso

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