Items tagged with uruguay
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Growers celebrate as Uruguay prepares to legalize marijuana cultivation, distribution [24.10.2013] | Pot connoisseurs of the world take note: Uruguay is about to go where no country has gone before by legalizing the cultivation and distribution of ma ... |
Uruguay official: Legal pot for $1 per gram [20.10.2013] | Uruguay’s drug czar says the country plans to sell legal marijuana for $1 per gram to combat drug-trafficking, according to a local newspaper. The pl ... |
Uruguay Marijuana Polls Good News for Regional Proponents [12.09.2013] | While public opinion remains largely opposed to marijuana regulation in Uruguay, a new poll shows support for the bill is growing, especially among l ... |
Mexico and marijuana: A leaf out of Uruguay's book? [12.08.2013] | Ten days ago, the lower house of Uruguay's parliament passed a law legalising marijuana, reflecting a growing sentiment in Latin America that the cur ... |
Uruguay moves one step closer to becoming first country to legally regulate marijuana [08.08.2013] | On Wednesday 31st July 2013, the Uruguayan House of Representatives approved a marijuana regulation bill, bringing it one step closer to becoming the ... |
Latin America Drug Policy Dialogue 2013 Maldonado (Uruguay) [06.08.2013] | The ninth Latin America informal drug policy dialogue was devoted to "dilemmas in regulation of the cannabis market." The two-day dialogues were stru ... |
Guatemalan president applauds Uruguayan pot legalization vote [05.08.2013] | Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina has called last week’s approval by Uruguayan lawmakers in the lower house of the legalization of recreational ... |
Ganja legalisation gaining traction [05.08.2013] | The world is watching, with keen eyes, as legislators in Montevideo inch ever so close to making Uruguay the first country ever to legalise the produ ... |
The experiment [05.08.2013] | After more than a year’s public deliberation and a 14-hour parliamentary debate, on July 31st Uruguay took a big step to becoming the first country i ... |
Uruguay steps forward with Marijuana legalisation vote [03.08.2013] | The bill will now be taken up in Uruguay’s Senate—where the governing Frente Amplio coalition also holds a majority—and could soon arrive on the desk ... |
Uruguay's Marijuana Regulation Bill Passes in Lower House [03.08.2013] | The week got off to an ominous start on Monday with the release of a survey by Cifra, Uruguay's leading pollster, showing that around two-thirds of t ... |
Uruguay poised to legalize marijuana: Is this the right way forward? [01.08.2013] | Uruguay is poised to become the first nation in the world to create a legal, regulated marijuana market. .. but is this the right way forward? Martin ... |
What Legalizing Pot In Uruguay Means For the World [01.08.2013] | Late Wednesday night, following months of intensive debate and negotiation, the Uruguayan House of Representatives passed a bill to legalize marijuan ... |
Uruguay votes to create world's first national legal marijuana market [01.08.2013] | Uruguay's unprecedented plan to create a legal marijuana market has taken its critical first step in the lower house of Congress. All 50 members of t ... |
Global trendsetter? Uruguay moves to legalize marijuana [31.07.2013] | Uruguay has effectively sealed the passage of a groundbreaking marijuana legalization bill that puts production, distribution, and sale of the drug i ... |
Legalization of marijuana seeks to protect teens and minor addicts from addiction - expert [31.07.2013] | Uruguay's House of Representatives has passed a bill to legalize marijuana by 50 of the 96 MPs following 13 hours of tough debates. Now the bill is t ... |
Nederland wietland ingehaald door Uruguay [31.07.2013] | Wij hebben het er al jaren over, Uruguay doet 't gewoon: wiet wordt er legaal. Niet alleen de verkoop, ook de productie. Daarmee is Uruguay het eerst ... |
Uruguay's marijuana bill faces olitical, economic obstacles [24.07.2013] | Uruguay is pushing to legalize marijuana. If Uruguay's proposal to regulate the production, sale and distribution of marijuana is properly implemente ... |
Cardoso Endorses Uruguay’s ‘Regulacion Responsable’ [19.07.2013] | In an op-ed first published in Mexico’s El Universal and Brazil’s O Globo on Tuesday, Cardoso praised the proposal’s potential to take away profits w ... |
Models for the legal supply of cannabis [27.05.2013] | Three United Nations Conventions provide the international legal framework on drug control, instructing countries to limit drug supply and use to med ... |
Cannabis to substitute crack [22.04.2013] | The mayor of Bogota has recently proposed a pilot scheme with crack cocaine addicts to explore the substitution of crack made of cocaine base paste ( ... |
Cannabis and the 1961 Convention [12.03.2013] | Over the past years, there have been some soft and hard defections on cannabis control. It is now time to discuss alternatives that are based on fact ... |
Uruguay postpones vote on 'state as dealer' approach to drug regulation - but not for long? [23.12.2012] | Uruguay has been on the vanguard of drug policy reform in the Americas, proposing a state regulatory market for the cultivation and consumption of ma ... |
Uruguay government aide defends marijuana plan [22.11.2012] | Juan Vaz, an Uruguayan activist and government aide who has been jailed for growing marijuana in his home, says it's time to end a contradiction that ... |
Latin America looks to Europe for drug fighting models [17.11.2012] | Latin American countries are turning to Europe for lessons on fighting drugs after souring on the prohibition-style approach of the violent and costl ... |
Uruguay lawmakers consider legalization of marijuana with goal of outselling pot dealers [15.11.2012] | Uruguay came one step closer to turning the government into the country’s leading pot dealer, as lawmakers formally introduced to Congress a framewor ... |
The will of the voters [12.11.2012] | Now that the voters in Colorado and Washington have approved marijuana legalization initiatives, attention has turned quickly to questions surroundin ... |
Uruguay plans to legalise marijuana under state monopoly [23.10.2012] | The president of Uruguay, José Mujica, has announced plans to legalise the production and sale of marijuana under a state monopoly, triggering a live ... |
The relaxation of cannabis laws shows the failure of the war on drugs [21.09.2012] | When the Uruguayan president José Mujica was asked about his proposal to make a historic break with global prohibition and put in place a legal, stat ... |
Uruguay takes 'war on drugs' in new direction: The state as dealer [18.09.2012] | Uruguay has long been at the vanguard of social reform in Latin America. Today, it is on the verge of passing into law one of its most radical ideas ... |
Uruguay's Government Eyes Legalized Marijuana [12.09.2012] | Leaders in Mexico, Colombia, and other Latin American nations wracked by cartel violence are calling for a new approach in the U.S.-led war on drugs. ... |
Uruguay’s plan to sell pot may not be that crazy [17.08.2012] | Judging from what Uruguay’s President Jose Mujica told me in an extended interview last week, there is a real possibility that people in his country ... |
Uruguay ponders making government legal pot dealer [09.08.2012] | A plan by Uruguay's leaders to turn the government into the nation's marijuana dealer has been presented to Congress, where the idea faces an uncerta ... |
Officials in Uruguay and Chile Submit Marijuana Legalization Bills [09.08.2012] | While the Uruguayan president has endorsed a bill which would create a legal, state-run marijuana industry, congressmen in Chile are pushing a bill t ... |
South America Sees Drug Path to Legalization [28.07.2012] | Uruguay’s famously rebellious president first called for "regulated and controlled legalization of marijuana" in a security plan unveiled last month. ... |
Cannabis regulation in Uruguay: "Someone has to be first ..." [17.07.2012] | Uruguay may be poised to become the first country to opt for a state controlled and legally regulated cannabis market for medical as well as recreati ... |
Drugs and Prisons in Uruguay [17.07.2012] | In Uruguay, the consumption of drugs, including marijuana, is not punishable with prison time. Even so, the cultivation of marijuana for personal con ... |
Uruguayan drug legalisation: Thinking the unthinkable [29.06.2012] | Latin American leaders have begun to rebel against rigid drug prohibition and the decades-long "war" on drugs. So when Uruguay’s government this mont ... |
Uruguay’s Plan to Legalize Marijuana Sales [26.06.2012] | Uruguay's proposal to legalize marijuana sales – and make its government the sole seller – reflects a growing worldwide urge to find new and less vio ... |
A breakthrough in the making? [25.06.2012] | Remarkable drug policy developments are taking place in Latin America. This is not only at the level of political debate, but is also reflected in ac ... |
Uruguay says pot law won't make it a drug haven [23.06.2012] | Uruguay's government plans to start growing marijuana soon after a law legalizing sales of the drug passes Congress, but a ban on selling to foreigne ... |
Uruguayan government announces unprecedented plan for legal, regulated arijuana markets [21.06.2012] | In the latest challenge from Latin America to drug war orthodoxy, on June 20, 2012, the Uruguayan government unveiled a proposal that, if adopted by ... |
Uruguay Considers Selling Marijuana [21.06.2012] | Uruguay is showing a novel approach to Latin America's growing fatigue with the war on drugs with a new proposal: normalize marijuana use and hand ov ... |
Uruguay mulls government marijuana sales [21.06.2012] | Uruguay is planning a novel approach to fighting its rising crime: having its government sell marijuana to take drug profits out of the hands of deal ... |
The Case of Uruguay [08.12.2010] | Uruguay has one of the most advanced drug policies on the continent. In Uruguay, the law does not criminalize drug use or possession of drugs for per ... |
Drug Laws and Prisons in Uruguay [07.12.2010] | Uruguay has one of the most advanced drug policies on the continent. In Uruguay, the law does not criminalize drug use or possession of drugs for per ... |
'Paco' Under Scrutiny [01.10.2006] | Based on two studies carried out in the cities of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, this report examines the origin, characteristics and impact of the exp ... |
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