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Uruguay to sell marijuana to take profits from dealers

June 20, 2012 18:30

The Latin American country is planning not only to legalize marijuana, but to actually start selling it. By dose.

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Joe (unregistered) 28.11.2012 15:04

If you look closer, you will realize that all this is, is the biggest gang in the land moving in on the drug dealer's turf.  If it were really about freedom, they'd let anyone sell it.  

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ScepticalDutchman (unregistered) 23.06.2012 00:53

I applaud the legalisation. There are a lot of harmful and very dangerous drugs out there, but marijuana is not amongst them. In Holland we have a toleration policy, meaning one can legally acquire and utilize weed for recreational purpose. However -and I can't stress this enough- we have little to no problems with useres of it.

Myself I use it from time to time, and well, it's not at all worse than drinking a couple of beers, only thing is, it's a lot cheaper. And it doesn't really get stacked on top of the beer, considering how it will often cause you to 'pump out' all your beer when used afterwards. And when used first it will just create a really relaxed atmosphere. I also am pretty sure it's not a lot more harmful to you than smoking on its own, and I am definitely sure it is less harmful then alcohol.

The problem comes however with the growing of weed. It is illegal to grow it for commercial use, so theoraticly that means noone could ever aquire it from shops. This leads to legal shops having to import stuff illegally... But as said, the gouvernment tolerates it -even though strictly it's illegal-.This makes it so that ALL shops have to import it from dark sources (terrorists, gangs, etc.), which is ridiculous. Now that there are new regulations towards 'drug tourisme' criminal dealers make waaay more profit since they can sell to foreigners who would first legally acquire it through shops...

 It would be a boon if there were more countries that allow people to grow and sell weed. This will lead to the government (besides profitting from it)  also beeing able to take the business out of the hands from criminals almost completely. It really works people, and believe me, it makes the world safer rather than more dangerous.

I rest my case :P

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DC (unregistered) 23.06.2012 00:42

Speaking of Mary Jane... funny how we all have been lied to throughout the years as pot being the "Gateway Drug" - Wrong! In my opinion the true gateway drug is nicotine (cigarettes)... do any others out there possibly see this as factual?

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GoldMorgCom (unregistered) 23.06.2012 00:22

GoldMorg anti informs that at present ha rmfull synthetic narcotics are flooding the market, like MDPV is bulksold by the producers for less than a cent per dose. In this contekst the legal prohibition of Marijuana seems to have become rather outdated and harmfull. Illegal dealers of Marijuana turn it into rather sh it by adding dangerous toxines like MDPV to make their customers severely addicted very fast and to add effectiveness to the very rubish quality they trade. Heroin is a di.ty war of the NATO against Russia and Iran by flooding them with abundant cheap Afghan heroin where the production is supported and protected by NATO. The food aid to the poeple is distributed to the village elderly / the warlords. They pass the food on in exchange of opium that they convert into heroin in their labaratories to export it to Iran, Russia and beyond. NATO allows neither Iran neither Russia to tackle the opium and heroin production and export in Afghanistan like the USA tackles cocain in south amerika. So the NATO protects it. Legalization of good quality Marijuana will probably be an effective measure to fight homeland use of opium and heroin and the booming other extremely dementing synthetic narcotics like MDPV. Those will have to move on to West- Europe when the Russia and Iran switch to Marijuana consumption. By the way, in 1901 the NCF was founded in Amsterdam, the Netherlands Cocain Factory, at that time by far worlds largest in the world. In WW I it did the superprofitable supply to the troops of both sides with plentifull cocain and other narcotics to endure the terror of war, that so could last longer. Other things the small country excelled: The supply to pois ongas Sadam, the handover of the new efficient ur anium enrichment technology to the Pakistani Khan who later sold it to North Korea and Iran and recently on request of US GoldMorgs the development, production, testing and partial publication in Rotterdam of a very infectious variety of the birdflue that so can k ill many millions and incapacitate billions for years, in particular Asians who have less natural resistence to the flue. So it is the ultimate EW MMM. beware of the GoldMorgs, they do more than highly to xic financial waste and war. .  

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Christen Stephansen (unregistered) 22.06.2012 21:22

This is the only right thing to do! I mean, at least it's the smart thing to do. I smoke pot and hashish, don't suffer from it, but with the limits set and so forth, what can go wrong?

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Steve (unregistered) 22.06.2012 18:59

The Russians do a good job at enforcing anti-Marijuana laws. They don't have even a Medicinal "exemption".

They do that because they know that Marijuana destroys the frabic of a society.

I believe the United States should have the same Marijuana laws that the Russians have.

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muqraker 22.06.2012 15:54

is that a catholic church clock tower i see in the distance? perfect shot.

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Truth Constrictor (unregistered) 22.06.2012 14:05

Brazil should follow!

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Peter Jennings (unregistered) 22.06.2012 12:33

Russia used to be the biggest producer of hemp in the world at one time.

Just a thought.

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GoldMorgCom (unregistered) 22.06.2012 06:55

GoldMorg anti informs that it would be a great day for mankind when the President Putin and the Duma decide legalization of regulated growth and sales of marijuana acompanied with free education about the destructive potential of illicit narcotics. When Russia does then soon the world will follow.Legalization of marijuana can keep many people from overconsumption of alcohol, heroin and other very harmful synthetic narcotics and illegal marijuana. Harmful synthetic narcotics tend to be added to illegal marijuana. Overconsumption of alcohol and all kinds of synthetic narcotics tend to destroy the brain and make retarded very fast.Normal henf plants are usuful for a range of products, ranging from sheets to building materials and components for cars.

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Pepe (unregistered) 22.06.2012 05:27

I'm uruguayan, and i'm proud of this measure beyond the good thing about cannabis, is the fact that this will be a big hit on drug traffiking and a great ensure of  personal freedoms.

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henri (unregistered) 22.06.2012 03:23

YEAAAAAAAAH The only way you can get killed by marijuana is to get a drop of a tonne on yer head. set it on fire or drink it like tea it can be the best remedy around.This magic plant has lots of properties the pharmaceutical companies don't want you to know, and the only way to find out is to burn it and earn .Booyaka selassia man.

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Brazilian Eyes Wide Open (unregistered) 22.06.2012 02:33

The reason why alcohol and Prozac are THE western drugs is because they are both monopolized by Jews/Zionists in the stock markets.  The west forbids all softer drugs because they want everyone into the alcohol Jew/monopoly either drunk for the Jewish Lehman family from CH (Ambev Inbev Anhauser Busch Burger King) to keep a monopoly on the necessary anesthesia humanity needs, oh brutalized humanity with their alcohol.  Or their Prozac .  Uruguayan joints , tomorrow, off to Punta del Este, I´ll open up a bar .

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