Uruguay again planted marijuana in the face of the United Nations

The government will defend the United Nations (UN) policy to combat drug trafficking. The National Drug Board shall report to the High Commissioner for Human Rights UN in which he defends, among other things, market regulation of marijuana despite repeated criticism from the international organization

"Uruguay has embarked on a different path. And we have not only proposed concrete measures but have also made them effective in a different sense," said the deputy secretary of the Presidency and President of the National Drug Board (JND), Juan Andrés Roballo. "In Uruguay we are watching very closely internationally. And locally we have a special commitment," he added.

The document to be submitted to UN calls for a discussion "without taboos". The UN, meanwhile, said that the Uruguay approved law "is incompatible with the provisions of the 1961 Convention", which limits the production, manufacture, export, import, distribution, trade, use and possession of drugs...

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