Anti-marijuana candidate loses in Uruguay primary
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — The biggest threat to Uruguay's new legal marijuana market has lost his party's presidential primary.
Sen. Jorge Larranaga had been a favorite to represent the National Party this year and strongly opposes the new law, which puts the ruling Broad Front government at the center of a regulated marijuana industry. The government's aim is to defeat organized crime by producing cheaper, better, legal weed and selling it in pharmacies to registered adults.
"We are going to overturn this law that legalized marijuana growing. Nobody plant anything! Don't plant anything because we're going to knock it down!" Larranaga had said ahead of Sunday's primary.
Other leading candidates to succeed President Jose Mujica in October are on the record favoring the legal cultivation and purchase of marijuana for personal use.
The right-wing National Party's surprise winner by a wide margin was congressman Luis Lacalle Pou, who supports home-grown...
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