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Uruguayan Government Delays Marijuana Sale Until March

Telesur Reuters

Thursday 27 Nov 2014

Uruguay’s government, the first in the world to, legalize the consumption, production and to control the sale of marijuana, is still working on the concrete implementation of the law.

The sale of cannabis in Uruguayan pharmacies could eventually start in March, instead of by the end of this year as it was originally planned, the National Board of Drugs said Wednesday.

?The secretary of the agency, Julio Calzada, told the press that the commercialization “would take place at the end of this [political] term, at the beginning of the next one,” given that Uruguay will be voting for a new president on Sunday.

The law regulating marijuana's production and sale was approved last December in a bid to combat drug trafficking. Yet its implementation has been delayed for technical reasons, as no models for such a program exist in the world.

According to the law, previously registered – though anonymously – Uruguayan nationals over the age of 18 can buy up to 40 grams a month of marijuana at drugstores and can grow a maximum of six marijuana plants at home. Since last August, 1,200 self-producers have registered with another 300 formal smokers' clubs formed, another way to consume the plant as contemplated in the law.

According to the latest polls, current President Jose Mujica is likely to be succeeded by Tabare Vazquez, the candidate from Mujica’s leftist Broad Front coalition. However, during the electoral campaign, Vazquez – who belongs to a more centrist wing of the coalition than former guerrilla Mujica, expressed some reservations about the law.

Vazquez said the program’s implementation will be meticulously supervised, and that at any time the law could “receive the required corrections.”

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