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Home 🌿 Recreational Marijuana News 🌿 On this day in 2013, Uruguay became the first country to legalize marijuana 🌿On this day in 2013, Uruguay became the first country to legalize marijuana
On Dec. 10, 2013, Uruguay led the way in marijuana reform as the first country in the world to legalize the cannabis trade.
It was former leftist president, Jose Mujica, who pushed the initiative to legalize marijuana.
He argued that the marijuana market already existed and would continue to exist, and legalizing it would allow the state to regulate and tax a commodity that had, up to that point, been fully run by criminal organizations, as reported by Reuters.
Per Reuters:
“We’ve given this market as a gift to the drug traffickers and that is more destructive socially than the drug itself, because it rots the whole of society,” the 78-year-old former guerrilla fighter told Argentine news agency Telam.
It’s now been two years since Mujica authorized the world’s first nationalized market for marijuana cultivation, sale and use.
How has the “great experiment” fared so far?
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