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joshcryer

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4. DEA reopened a field office there in 2012.

Reply to MADem (Reply #1)

Thu Aug 1, 2013, 02:23 AM

Aug 2013

Mujica wants to handle the dispensing of the drugs probably to appease western interests. One thing people don't understand about Mujica is that he's pragmatic, though I agree this is a shitty precedent, Latin America doesn't have to do all things the "American way." (Private selling of goods with regulations.)

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Uruguay's Lower House Votes to Legalize Marijuana [View all] Comrade Grumpy Aug 2013 OP

.....create a registry of those who buy it. MADem Aug 2013 #1

I'm not particularly fond of that part. Comrade Grumpy Aug 2013 #2

I wouldn't sign up. joshcryer Aug 2013 #8

DEA reopened a field office there in 2012. joshcryer Aug 2013 #4

Good for them! TexasTowelie Aug 2013 #3

Fantastic! roody Aug 2013 #5

Good for Uruguay except for that identification part. Uncle Joe Aug 2013 #6

Big step forward. Hope this will have influence elsewhere. It's time. n/t Judi Lynn Aug 2013 #7

Mother Nature always intended for her children to smoke weed.... DeSwiss Aug 2013 #9

UN narcotics body warns Uruguay over marijuana bill Jesus Malverde Aug 2013 #10

This is the best news I've had in a while duhneece Aug 2013 #11

Prohibition is a failed public policy...everywhere. nt TeamPooka Aug 2013 #12