Uruguay: 1st country in the world to make it legal to grow, sell and consume MJ

[Oakvale]

What is the attraction of smoking weed? I just don't get it. So many legal narcotics to purchase, and yet people choose to go to the trouble of getting illegal dope. Why?

...because it feels good and enhances your senses.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Lives lost or ruined? Come on. The cost in "lives lost or ruined" of legal marijuana is just about zero - the cost of "lives lost or ruined" by prohibition is nearly uncountable.

Don't be disingenuous. You know perfectly well that I in no way support penalizing drug consumption.

people should be allowed do what they want as long as it's not hurting anyone else.

Well, I wholeheartedly disagree with this philosophy. And I think it is responsible for a good deal of the issues modern society has.

[Cassius]

Lives lost or ruined? Come on. The cost in "lives lost or ruined" of legal marijuana is just about zero - the cost of "lives lost or ruined" by prohibition is nearly uncountable.

Don't be disingenuous. You know perfectly well that I in no way support penalizing drug consumption.

people should be allowed do what they want as long as it's not hurting anyone else.

Well, I wholeheartedly disagree with this philosophy. And I think it is responsible for a good deal of the issues modern society has.

How can you properly discourage something (which is, I assume, your position of marijuana) without at least some degree of penalisation when it comes to users.

[they don't love you like i love you]

And that's a problem?  Do you actually believe marijuana is dangerous?

Do you actually believe it has no health consequences? lol, wishful thinking

There are many things with worse "health consequences" than marijuana that are legal.

[Tender Branson]

A new poll has 66% of Uruguay voters opposed to this new law, 24% in favour and 10% undecided.

[Tender Branson]

A new poll has 66% of Uruguay voters opposed to this new law, 24% in favour and 10% undecided.

By age:



By party:

[Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas]

I'm all for legalization if it shuts up the stoners.

[they don't love you like i love you]

WTF? Politicians more pro-legalization than the general public? That almost NEVER happens.

And what's with the 18-29 bracket in that poll?

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

WTF? Politicians more pro-legalization than the general public? That almost NEVER happens.

And what's with the 18-29 bracket in that poll?

The 18-29 bracket is still markedly more pro-legalization than the other brackets; it's just presumably less so than in the United States. I don't find that hugely surprising if Uruguay is this anti-legalization in general (which does, itself, surprise me).

[dead0man]

What is the attraction of smoking weed? I just don't get it. So many legal narcotics to purchase, and yet people choose to go to the trouble of getting illegal dope. Why?

What other legal narcotics?  Drink disagrees with a lot of people's bodies.  People shouldn't need a prescription to enjoy their own free time.

[Famous Mortimer]

Recreational marijuana isn't as common as in America and Western Europe.

This law change in Uruguay isn't seen as much as a social policy as a drug war policy.

Maybe people think it seems weak and appease-y.

[Peeperkorn]

Uruguay Considers Using Medical Marijuana To Treat Cocaine Addicts In Prison

NEW YORK -- Uruguay is considering using medical marijuana to treat prison inmates addicted to a crude and cheap form of cocaine, one of the country's top health officials said Thursday at the United Nations.

The South American country made headlines last year when it became the first in the world to legalize the sale of marijuana. Now, as Uruguay prepares to implement its pioneering legislation, health leaders are considering possible uses for medical forms of marijuana -- including in prisons, where many of the incarcerated are addicted to drugs.

"Jail is not a very suitable place for someone to safely overcome drug addiction," Leonel Briozzo, the country's undersecretary for public health, said in an event at the U.N. Briozzo called for "new strategies for drug addiction treatment, especially for harder drugs like 'pasta base.' And in that sense, we harbor a possible hope that medical marijuana can play a role in this as well."

"Pasta base" -- also known as "paco" -- is cocaine base paste, a byproduct of the cocaine refining process. The cheap drug swept through Uruguay and neighboring Argentina during the 2000s, leaving public health officials struggling to control its fallout.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/04/uruguay-medical-marijuana_n_5092773.html

[Peeperkorn]

Uruguay will have salves, pills and oil made from canabbis


After recreational marijuana general decree , mid-year will be another special to regulate medical marijuana. There are already interested in investing in Uruguay .

Deputy secretary of the Presidency, Diego Canepa, announced that in addition to this general decree on marijuana , will be other specific decree to regulate the production , sale and consumption of medicinal marijuana.

Cánepa also said that there are companies interested in investing in Uruguay for production, for example, pills , salves and oils from cannabis.

Based on this framework , with the participation of foreign experts ended Thursday update the international forum on medical and therapeutic uses cannabis. The professor Laura Dominguez , University of the Republic , said in a medicinal Uruguay " safety and quality " cannabis may . Depending canabbis medicinal composition can be used in individuals with cancer, epilepsy , analgesic , or immunosuppressive , among other uses.

[Hatman 🍁]

Gawdamn, Uruguay is an awesome country. All hail President Mujica!

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

FYI it's already legal to grow, sell, and consume in Best Korea.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Best Korea.

so edgy

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

Best Korea.

so edgy

Not that this necessarily applies to Sagestalker, but you've never run across people who say this sarcastically?

[Antonio the Sixth]

No, actually. Apologies to Snowtalker if I misunderstood.

[Oakvale]

No need, Antonio. If anyone here's an unironic tankie it'd be Snowstalker.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

I've never known anybody to say 'Best Korea' and not mean it sarcastically, but somebody has to be the first, and Snowstalker's as good a candidate as any.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

I am not an unironic North Korea supporter (or a tankie in general) for fuck's sake. Juche is far-right if anything.

And yes, Best Korea is said ironically all the time.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

Juche is far-right if anything.

Good. Not enough people realize this.

[Nhoj]

Its really not far right in the traditional sense either.

[Meursault]

It's probably closest to some strains of Third Positionism, at least in terms of its practical manifestations. It certainly isn't Marxist.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

'Far-right' may not be the best way to characterize it but its rhetoric for domestic consumption is profoundly racist and part of its practical manifestation is the development of a system of absolute monarchy in all but name, arguably both more absolute and more monarchical than any of the actual formal sovereign monarchies still existing in the world.