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Uruguay has become the country in the world to legalise the marijuana trade, from the drug’s to its distribution. This means it is the only where the government has total of the commercialisation of marijuana (also known as ). Uruguay's President Jose Mujica said his is to try and disrupt the activities of drug and possibly put them out of business altogether. He hopes that his , together with the close monitoring of marijuana by the state, will reduce dependence on the drug and drug-related crime. Mr Mujica said he was well aware that the new legislation was "an experiment," which had no of being successful.

The legalisation has fallen of an international treaty on drug control. Uruguay is a to the 1961 Convention on Narcotic Drugs. The Convention limits the use of cannabis "to and scientific purposes". The president of the International Narcotics Control Board, Raymond Yans, said he was "" that Uruguay had "knowingly decided to break the agreed and internationally endorsed provisions of the ". He warned the move could , saying: "It will not protect young people, but rather have the perverse of encouraging early experimentation, lowering the age of first use, and thus contributing to…earlier onset of and other disorders."

 


 
 
 

 

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