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MONTEVIDEO (AFP) – Uruguay will write a piece of history next week when the small South American nation becomes the first country in the world to legalise marijuana, launching a social experiment as part of a broad strategy to combat drug trafficking. The plan was unveiled a year and a half ago by President Jose Mujica along with other measures designed to halt crime and violence associated with ...

 

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Uruguay is to give a green light Tuesday to making marijuana legal, in a social experiment that countries plagued by drug-related crime worldwide will watch. This puts Uruguay squarely in the forefront of changing policy-making and strategies," said Senator Luis Gallo of the Broad Front. The plan was unveiled a year and a half ago by President Jose Mujica along with other measures aimed at ...

 

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By Malena Castaldi MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) - Uruguay's Senate is expected to pass a law on Tuesday making the small South American nation the world's first to allow its citizens to grow, buy and smoke marijuana. The pioneering government-sponsored bill establishes state regulation of the cultivation, distribution and consumption of marijuana and is aimed at wresting the business from criminals ...

 

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