South American country Uruguay is set to become the first
country in the world to allow its citizens to grow, sell, buy and
smoke marijuana. The country's Senate began its final debate
on the issue today Tuesday Dec. 10th and claim they want to
legalize it in a bid to take the business from criminals.
If this bill, which has the support of majority of the House and
the president of the country, is passed, Uruguay will be the
first country to legalize a trade that is illegal everywhere else
in the world.
After the trade is made legal, Uruguay will then draft
regulations imposing state control over the cultivation and
distribution of marijuana. Anyone who wants to go into the
business would have to be licensed and registered, with
government monitors keeping tabs to enforce limits, such as
the 40 grams a month that any adult will be able to buy at
pharmacies for any reason.