Uruguay Becomes First Country to Legalize Marijuana Trade

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http://www.nationofchange.org/uruguay-becomes-first-country-legalize-marijuana-trade-1399645140

On Tuesday, Uruguay became the first country to publicly legalize marijuana. While President José Mujica’s coalition passed the marijuana bill last year, the new regulation enacts the most “ambitious cannabis legalization” in all the world.

Uruguay's new government-controlled regulation allows legal residents of Uruguay 18 years of age or older, who register with the government, to legally purchase marijuana from licensed pharmacies, grow it on their own and, or join marijuana clubs.

Registered users can legally purchase up to 40 grams of marijuana a month set at a cost of about $1 per gram. Annually, a person can grow up to 1.06 pounds of marijuana for commercial use, while marijuana clubs, consisting of 15 to 45 members, can legally grow as many as 99 plants. The Mujica administration’s goal is to “allow legal growers to corner a market estimated at between 18 and 22 tons of marijuana a year with a value of about $40 million,” according to The Wall Street Journal.

"We want to strike a blow against narco traffickers, taking market from them," the left-wing Uruguayan president said in an interview with reporters. "We're not recommending that smoking marijuana is good like some poets say. No addiction is good. The only addiction I recommend to young people is love."

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