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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

''Uruguay Rejects “The War on Drugs”: Law Proposes State Control of Marijuana Production and Distribution''

From Upside Down World

''The government of President José Mujica achieved its main objective when it proposed legalizing marijuana: to spark a broad national debate regarding drugs, prohibitionist policies, and the repressive measures used to date.

State participation “would ruin” the market “ for the marihuana traffickers “because we will sell the product cheaper at a price you can’t get on the black market”, Mujica said to CNN [1]. The president told reporter Andres Oppenheimer “that a private business” could be in charge of selling marijuana, under strict state control.''

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