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Simplepowa
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Uruguay Legalizes Marijuana Tomorrow! 1
#19255496 - 12/10/13 01:43 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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by Phillip Smith, December 09, 2013, 03:14pm
Tuesday is going to be historic.
Tomorrow, the Uruguayan Senate will vote on a bill that would make their country the first in the world to legally regulate the production, distribution and sale of marijuana for adults. The bill was approved in the House of Representatives in July with 50 out of 96 votes. Once approved in Senate, Uruguay will have 120 days to write the regulations before implementing the law.
Two US states--Colorado and Washington--have already legalized marijuana, but this will mark the first time a signatory to the 1961 UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs has broken so directly with its prohibitionist consensus. (A handful of countries have not signed the convention.)
The Drug Policy Alliance, which has been working with the Uruguayans, has a few preliminary comments.
“It’s about time that we see a country bravely break with the failed prohibitionist model and try an innovative, more compassionate, and smarter approach. By approving this measure, Uruguay will represent a concrete advance in line with growing opposition to the drug war in Latin America and throughout the world,” said Hannah Hetzer, who is based out of Montevideo, Uruguay, as the Policy Manager of the Americas for the Drug Policy Alliance.
“Last year, Colorado and Washington; this year, Uruguay; and next year, Oregon and hopefully more states as well,” said Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance. “We still have a long way to go but who would have believed, just five years ago, that legalizing marijuana would have become a mainstream political reality both in the United States and abroad?!”
Indeed.
Montevidoe Uruguay
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2013/dec/09/uruguay_legalizes_marijuana_tomo
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Re: Uruguay Legalizes Marijuana Tomorrow! [Re: Simplepowa]
#19255740 - 12/10/13 02:44 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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The bill was approved in the House of Representatives in July with 50 out of 96 votes.
That was a close vote. Glad to see this becoming a reality now.
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Re: Uruguay Legalizes Marijuana Tomorrow! [Re: SuperD]
#19255836 - 12/10/13 03:06 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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cant wait for the booming success to reach american ears.
change is coming...
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Re: Uruguay Legalizes Marijuana Tomorrow! [Re: NWlight]
#19256331 - 12/10/13 04:52 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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SHROOMERY ROAD TRIP TO URUGUAY!

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Re: Uruguay Legalizes Marijuana Tomorrow! [Re: ch1ck3n.s0up]
#19256342 - 12/10/13 04:54 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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SHROOMERY ROAD TRIP TO URUGUAY!
GREAT idea!   
South America is an amazing continent; awesome history, bomb food, ridiculously friendly people, great for backpackers, and now legal trees!
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Re: Uruguay Legalizes Marijuana Tomorrow! [Re: NWlight]
#19256352 - 12/10/13 04:56 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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I have heard disturbingly little buzz about this stateside.
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Re: Uruguay Legalizes Marijuana Tomorrow! [Re: NWlight]
#19256537 - 12/10/13 05:32 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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NWlight said: cant wait for the booming success to reach american ears.
change is coming...
Boo-yah!
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Simplepowa
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Re: Uruguay Legalizes Marijuana Tomorrow! [Re: Le_Canard]
#19256695 - 12/10/13 06:02 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Carl Sagan - "Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people." --- Robert Pirsig - "When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion." --- Brian Cox - "[One] problem with today’s world is that everyone believes they have the right to express their opinion AND have others listen to it. The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right to an opinion, but crucially, that opinion can be roundly ignored and even made fun of, particularly if it is demonstrably nonsense."
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Re: Uruguay Legalizes Marijuana Tomorrow! [Re: Simplepowa]
#19258395 - 12/11/13 12:39 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Will it really change anything though? Uruguay is a small and uninfluential country, and while it's a positive step in the right direction for drug legalization; However, cannabis is basically legal in San Francisco anyway, so...
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