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Uruguay Plans Pharmacy-Run Marijuana Sales in 2015 Under Vazquez

Submitted by Marijuana News on Sat, 03/07/2015 - 14:12

(Bloomberg) -- Recreational pot will hit pharmacy shelves in Uruguay as President Tabare Vazquez moves to fully implement a sweeping cannabis law signed by his predecessor, a senior government policy maker said.

“The law is going to be implemented and we are going to end up selling marijuana in the pharmacies like the law says,” Milton Romani, secretary-general of the National Drugs Board, said in an interview Thursday.

Wedged between Brazil and Argentina, Uruguay became the first country in the world to regulate cannabis for recreational, medicinal and industrial uses in December 2013. Former President Jose “Pepe” Mujica pitched the measure to Uruguayans as a way to allow legal growers to undercut a black market that government estimates put at about 22 tons a year.

 

Uruguay’s plan to issue up to five licenses to grow as much as two tons of pot each to supply pharmacies has attracted 11...

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