Uruguay may import marijuana from Canada

[n2doc]

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — In about a month, Uruguay’s revolutionary new cannabis law will go into effect. In addition to allowing citizens to grow, buy and sell weed, the government will also set forth on its mission to grow its own fields of marijuana, which will then be harvested, taxed and sold in neighborhood pharmacies.

At least, that’s the theory.

But growing weed takes a while. Cultivating fields of it, figuring out how to keep the fields safe from poachers, harvesting vast amounts of cannabis, packaging it, taxing it, distributing it and selling it take even longer.

Long story short: Uruguay’s government is not going to be producing much of its own cannabis any time soon. So, where is the official stash going to come from in the meantime?

Maybe Canada.

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http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/140319/uruguay-import-marijuana-canada-export-cannabis

[Enrique]

1. that's unexpected

“I think that we’re going to buy it from Canada, because that’s where the best quality is.”

[NightWatcher]

2. Noooooo. We're going to need the BC Buds here (Florida) come November

and I hear there are shortages in other legal states.

[JHB]

3. Sold under the brand name "Polar Vortex" n/t