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InvisibleSimplepowa
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Uruguay To Sell Legal Marijuana At Low Price Of $2.5 Per Gram To Compete With Black Market * 1
    #18676304 - 08/08/13 01:43 AM (10 years, 9 months ago)

The Huffington Post  |  By Kavitha A. Davidson Posted: 08/06/2013 4:38 pm EDT

Good news, Uruguayan potheads -- your weed habit is about to get a whole lot cheaper.

Uruguay's lower house passed an unprecedented bill last week that legalizes marijuana and regulates the production, distribution, and sale of weed for adult consumers. El Pais now reports via Univision that the bill fixes the price of marijuana around $2.50 per gram. The bill is up for vote in the Senate, where it is expected to be passed, and finally signed into law by President José Mujica, a longtime supporter of drug reform.

The debate surrounding the bill is nothing new: critics point to potential health and welfare consequences, while supporters hail the attempt to pragmatically address the widespread use of marijuana and the systemic failures of the global war on drugs. And as The Economist points out, countries like Portugal and the Netherlands have significantly decriminalized the possession and use of small amounts of pot.

What sets Uruguay's bill apart, however, is that it provides for government control over the entire marijuana industry, from cultivation to consumption. Individual citizens, cooperatives, and private companies can grow a specified amount of weed each month, though it may only be sold to consumers by state-run pharmacies. Purchasers will have to register with the state and will be limited to 40 grams per month.

Such regulations could deter Uruguay's 120,000 or so marijuana users from leaving the black market, which is where the price point comes into play. Foreign Policy's Park MacDougald notes that the government has two tools at its disposal to lure customers into the legal market it seeks to create: affordability and quality control. While InSight Crime reports that the current cost of pot varies by region and can reach up to about $5 per gram, Julio Calzada, Uruguay's drug czar, told El Pais that the proposed fixed price of $2.50 per gram is on par with the going underground rates, the hope being that the competitive pricing will attract users to the legal market without providing a profit incentive for resale in the black market.

Furthermore, the bill includes strict guidelines for cultivating the cannabis plant that would eliminate common practices used by drug traffickers to alter the purity and potency of the drug. Thus, as MacDougald writes, "The legal cannabis ... will be the narcotic equivalent of artisanal goat cheese -- fresh and local."

Craft cannabis -- coming soon to a Uruguayan pharmacy near you.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/06/uruguay-legal-marijuana-price_n_3713826.html


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Re: Uruguay To Sell Legal Marijuana At Low Price Of $2.5 Per Gram To Compete With Black Market [Re: Simplepowa]
    #18676323 - 08/08/13 01:55 AM (10 years, 9 months ago)

canada needs to follow suit

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Re: Uruguay To Sell Legal Marijuana At Low Price Of $2.5 Per Gram To Compete With Black Market [Re: Simplepowa]
    #18676360 - 08/08/13 02:14 AM (10 years, 9 months ago)

Looks like I may have to alter my choice of retirement location. It was between New Zealand, Chile, Alaska, and The Netherlands. Uruguay just bumped Chile off the short list. :bigblunt:

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InvisibleMenalaus
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Re: Uruguay To Sell Legal Marijuana At Low Price Of $2.5 Per Gram To Compete With Black Market [Re: Simplepowa]
    #18676365 - 08/08/13 02:22 AM (10 years, 9 months ago)

$2.5 is getting there, if it every becomes whole sale the value will go down to like $10 lb. Unless they artificially inflate the price like diamonds

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Re: Uruguay To Sell Legal Marijuana At Low Price Of $2.5 Per Gram To Compete With Black Market [Re: Menalaus]
    #18676576 - 08/08/13 05:24 AM (10 years, 9 months ago)

Thank god. Don't get me wrong colorado and washington are doing a good jobat the moment, but when black market in my experience is only $3-5 more per gram for (allegedly) the same thing why bother going to all the trouble of buying it from a store?

If you're going to try and just barely beat the black market you're just going to end up with a nation full of horticulturist (not that that's a bad thing) and the gov. misses out on that money(and we've seen what happens when they can't profit of of something).

Hopefully the capitalism aspect comes into play now and eventually we'll be able to buy weed for something around $50 a bushel. (A bushel would be a lot right? I just like the thought of being able to walk into a store and ask for a bushel of the finest herbs in town. )


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Re: Uruguay To Sell Legal Marijuana At Low Price Of $2.5 Per Gram To Compete With Black Market [Re: LuSiD enthusiast]
    #18676595 - 08/08/13 05:35 AM (10 years, 9 months ago)

a bushel of weed......I got five on it.....:bigyesnod:


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Re: Uruguay To Sell Legal Marijuana At Low Price Of $2.5 Per Gram To Compete With Black Market [Re: greencrush420]
    #18676611 - 08/08/13 05:47 AM (10 years, 9 months ago)

Quote:

greencrush420 said:
Looks like I may have to alter my choice of retirement location. It was between New Zealand, Chile, Alaska, and The Netherlands. Uruguay just bumped Chile off the short list. :bigblunt:



Easy there, though no doubt this bill equates to seriously ballsy progress, there's still plenty of poverty and other issues in the country. It ain't perfect :shrug:


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Re: Uruguay To Sell Legal Marijuana At Low Price Of $2.5 Per Gram To Compete With Black Market [Re: Synthe] * 1
    #18676804 - 08/08/13 07:42 AM (10 years, 9 months ago)

Which just means he could live like a king for 50-100 bucks a week


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Re: Uruguay To Sell Legal Marijuana At Low Price Of $2.5 Per Gram To Compete With Black Market [Re: dark3st]
    #18676831 - 08/08/13 07:51 AM (10 years, 9 months ago)

nice...
criminalization (0-tolerance) is stupidity

even if it hurts some people mentally, it's their bodies, their risks


Netherland has nice laws too, or until recently when they banned shrooms due to negative media coverage
hopefully they don't punish them too bad

I could imagine moving there, due to their sensible laws
much better than UK or rest of EU


put tolerance in every law
that is sensible

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Re: Uruguay To Sell Legal Marijuana At Low Price Of $2.5 Per Gram To Compete With Black Market [Re: lessismore]
    #18676931 - 08/08/13 08:29 AM (10 years, 9 months ago)

im packing my bags now...

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Re: Uruguay To Sell Legal Marijuana At Low Price Of $2.5 Per Gram To Compete With Black Market [Re: LSDreams]
    #18682607 - 08/09/13 12:00 PM (10 years, 9 months ago)

You need a friend who lives there to go and buy it for you. But I did just that when I visited California, where it costs a lot more than 2.50 a gram. Uruguay doesn't want to turn into the Amsterdam of South America I guess. Can't say I blame them, fake drug pushers everywhere, homeless heroin addicts etc. When you are the only place with legal weed you tend to get a lot of undesirables. Hopefully this works and we can point to Uruguay's success.

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Re: Uruguay To Sell Legal Marijuana At Low Price Of $2.5 Per Gram To Compete With Black Market [Re: my3rdeye]
    #18683450 - 08/09/13 03:33 PM (10 years, 9 months ago)

Their are undesirables EvErYwHeRe, your logic is illogical and irrational


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