Uruguayan President Asks World To Help Him Legalize Weed

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Uruguay’s president wants the world to lend him a hand in his quest to legalize weed.

In an interview with Brazilian daily A Folha de São Paulo published Sunday, José Mujica defended his push to legalize the limited government sale of marijuana, calling on foreign governments to support the project.

“We ask the world to help us create this experience,” Mujica told A Folha de São Paulo during an interview at his farm outside Montevideo. “It will allow us to adopt a socio-political experiment to address the serious problem of drug trafficking… the effect of the drug traffic is worse than the drug.”

A law that would give the government a monopoly on the controlled sale of legal marijuana has already passed the national legislature’s lower house. The Senate, where Mujica’s supporters hold a majority, is expected to pass the unprecedented measure as well. ....................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/02/mujica-legalize-marijuana_n_4373924.html