Uruguay MPs back marijuana legalisation bill
Do you think that this kind of decision (Legalese Selling and Trading) will solve the problem of drugs Smuggling or would make issue more complicated?
what about the Effects?
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Members of Uruguay's House of Representatives have passed a bill to legalese marijuana.
If it goes on to be approved by the Senate, Uruguay will become the first country to regulate the production, distribution and sale of marijuana.
The measure is backed by the government of President Jose Mujica, who says it will remove profits from drug dealers and divert users from harder drugs.
Under the bill, only the government would be allowed to sell marijuana.
The state would assume "the control and regulation of the importation, exportation, plantation, cultivation, the harvest, the production, the acquisition, the storage, the commercialisation and the distribution of cannabis and its by-products".
Buyers would have to be registered on a database and be over the age of 18. They would be able to buy up to 40g (1.4oz) per month in specially licensed pharmacies or grow up to six plants at home.
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If approved by the Senate as expected, this will become a groundbreaking law, but not only for Uruguay. For decades, drug trafficking has caused thousands of deaths throughout Latin America in countries like Mexico or Colombia.
Legalisation has long been taboo for governments who aligned with the US anti drug policy, heavily dependent on law enforcement and prohibition.
This is still considered the orthodox approach and it is supported by conservatives and the Catholic Church.
But more and more leaders, like Guatemalan president Otto Perez Molina and former Mexican president Vicente Fox, are asking to discuss decriminalizing some drugs in an attempt to undermine the cartels.
Foreigners would be excluded from the measure.
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If you ask the majority of those junkies you see on the street they would tell you the destruction process started with marijuana.
Legalisation would immediately take drug revenues away from criminal gangs & allow the government to fund education and medical programs to help drug users be informed about the real effects of drugs.
It will be same as smoking and drinking.
Did think of the amount of moneyt they gonna spend To treat people from addiction?
There is a lot of Dimensions to the story!
You can't solve a problem with a bigger problem
The prohibition of drugs is the worst solution for preventing abuse. Firstly, it brings about a black market that is corrupt and costs human lives. Secondly, it constrains people who wouldn't abuse drugs. Thirdly, prohibiting drugs is expensive.
the Disadvantages is more than the advantages
It is like, putting Bytchs in the street, so people can stop raping
Instead of wasting time to discuss legalizing it
Why not to catch the Smugglers and control the situation.
Many countries are looking into legalising "soft drugs". Colorado, in the USA is discussing making it legal for anyone over 21 to possess an ounce of cannabis..
I personally do not agree with it, but to each his own..
Very good move.
Making it illegal has taken so many lives already.