Products for growing marijuana hit the market in Uruguay

By Patricia Alvares.

Special soil, humidity gauges, pruning shears and books on growing cannabis are among the items in demand in Uruguay a year after the regulations for producing and marketing marijuana under government control took effect.

"We noticed that there has been increased demand, and it continues because the market was created and it will keep growing," Manuel Varela, owner of a downtown Montevideo store offering items for growing marijuana, told EFE.

"And we also see the growing number of stores like this over the past year," Varela said. "There are now about 20."

Varela said his store offered plant food, tools, additives to germinate seeds in pots, irrigation systems, greenhouses that allow plants to grow in enclosures, temperature and humidity monitors, special pruning shears, rolling paper, books "and everything related to the cultivation of cannabis."

Varela said he and a friend decided to set up the business in...

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