Medical Marijuana can create a 'small development center' in Uruguay

The authorities have insisted they do not want to attract marijuana tourists, a subject for which the country has gained international fame in recent years.

The growing interest of international companies to settle in Uruguay to produce and export marijuana for medical use could lead to create a "small development center," said an official.

"Several international companies have shown interest in settling in Uruguay to produce and export medical marijuana," the secretary general of the National Drug Board, Milton Romani said in an interview with AFP.

"This is not what he had intended and can mean a small center of development for the country," he added.

The law that authorizes and regulates the production of cannabis was approved in 2013 by the Uruguayan Congress on the initiative of the then President Jose Mujica (2010-2015) and enables the state to license production of marijuana, whether for medicinal use or recreational.

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