Latin American country soon to be first nation in the world to fully legalize marijuana. The decision by Uruguay lawmakers to legalize the possession and sale of marijuana could signal the beginning of the end for the increasingly unpopular U.S.-led war on drugs, experts say.
“Uruguay being the first nation to engage in legalization and alternative drug policy could be kind of a tipping point,” says Nathan Jones, a post-doctoral fellow at Rice University’s James Baker Institute for Public Policy in Texas.
He says that Uruguay’s move challenges “those international treaties that kind of hold the whole drug prohibition regime together.”
On Wednesday, Uruguay’s House of Deputies voted 50 to 46 in favour of a bill to legalize the production, commercialization and distribution of pot.
Andre Mayer – CBC News – Aug 02, 2013.
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