Pubdate: Thu, 01 Aug 2013
Source: Dallas Morning News (TX)
Copyright: 2013 The Associated Press
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URUGUAY CLOSER TO LEGAL MARKET FOR MARIJUANA

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) - Uruguay's unprecedented plan to create a 
legal marijuana market was approved by 50-46 in the lower house of 
Congress just before midnight Wednesday after 13 hours of debate.

The measure goes to the Senate, where passage is expected to make 
Uruguay the first country in the world to license and regulate the 
production, distribution and sale of marijuana for adults.

Legislators said that legalizing marijuana would help fight organized 
crime and that the global war on drugs had been a costly and bloody failure.
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