In Uruguay, learning legal cannabis

The crowd, ready to rush to the counters at the opening on July 19, 2017 in Montevideo, for the launch of the sale of cannabis via pharmacies in Uruguay. MIGUEL ROJO / AFP

By: Théo Conscience Follow

In 2013, Uruguay became the first country in the world to legalize the cultivation and sale of recreational cannabis. Noting the failure of the repressive approach to the "war on drugs", the then president, José Mujica, whom you have just heard, proposed to make his country "a laboratory for the whole world" . Seven years later, this unprecedented experience begins to bear fruit.

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