Uruguay leader calls Colorado pot law 'a fiction' [View all]
Source: Associated Press
Uruguay leader calls Colorado pot law 'a fiction'
By LEONARDO HABERKORN
Associated Press May 2, 2014 Updated 6 minutes ago
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — President Jose Mujica says Uruguay's legal marijuana market will be much better than the system in Colorado, which doesn't track the drug after sale. And he says the medical marijuana laws many U.S. states have adopted are based on "hypocrisy" because they enable people to fake illnesses to get prescription weed.
Mujica also predicted Friday that Uruguay's system will be much tougher on drug users, and more effective in combatting illegal drug trafficking.
Mujica, who will visit President Barack Obama in the White House on May 12, says his government will license and regulate the entire marijuana business, enforcing pot possession rules as well as limits on production and sales so that violators get punished and addicts get help.
In an exclusive Associated Press interview just hours before the release of Uruguay's long-awaited marijuana regulations, the former leftist guerrilla also predicted that many will call him an old reactionary once they see the fine print.
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