Pubdate: Mon, 02 Sep 2013
Source: New York Daily News (NY)
Copyright: 2013 The Associated Press
Contact:  http://www.nydailynews.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/295

URUGUAY'S GOV'T IS GOING TO POT

(AP) - URUGUAYAN President Jose Mujica says his government's long 
experience as a maker and seller of liquor makes it more than capable 
of dominating another substance: marijuana.

Final approval of Uruguay's marijuana law is expected this month, and 
the government plans to license growers, sellers and users as quickly 
as possible thereafter to protect them from criminal drug 
traffickers, ruling party Sen. Lucia Topolansky, who is also 
Uruguay's first lady, said.

The law makes the government alone responsible for producing and 
distributing a drug still considered illegal around the world.

The government says its goal is to lower marijuana consumption in 
Uruguay by strictly regulating a legal market for it.
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