In Uruguay, learning legal cannabis

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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. Taking note of the failure of the repressive approach of 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 is beginning to bear fruit.

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