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LACC partners with Uruguay for marijuana research project

Submitted by Marijuana News on Mon, 02/09/2015 - 20:31

The Latin American and Caribbean Center and the Universidad Católica del Uruguay have partnered to conduct a research project on the legalization of marijuana and the transformation of drug policy.

In 2013, Uruguay passed a bill regulating the production, distribution and consumption of marijuana. For Jose Miguel Cruz, director of research at the university’s LACC, this was the ideal situation for an experiment.

“The point of the project was not to advocate, or oppose, the legalization of marijuana,” Cruz said. “We really want to know, in terms of policy, what happens when you change your approach toward drugs.”

Once Cruz heard of Uruguay’s change of policy, he saw it as an opportunity to start studying the effects of the legalization in a Latin American country. According to him, it was the perfect way to explore the immediate consequences of a change of policy and people’s reaction to it.

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