Uruguay’s marijuana growers come out into open

[Judi Lynn]

Uruguay’s marijuana growers come out into open
By Associated Press, Updated: Saturday, December 28, 10:35 AM

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Juan Andres Palese was using a fake name in public when he opened Uruguay’s first store dedicated to cultivating marijuana, where he offered growing equipment and advice but no illegal plants or seeds. Now that President Jose Mujica’s plan to create and regulate the world’s first national marijuana market has the force of law, Palese’s got much bigger plans.

His tiny shop, Urugrow, is already too small to support a rising number of clients, and he’ll be moving to a larger, higher-profile locale soon. Once the law’s regulations are in place, he hopes to openly sell seeds and cuttings along with all the tools anyone needs to legally grow up to six plants in their own home.

The symbols of marijuana are in full bloom in Uruguay: T-shirts featuring designs of pot leaves are sold on the streets, the radio carries the music of Jamaican singer Bob Marley.

But the people who are so enthusiastically buying potting soil, lights and irrigation equipment to start their own marijuana gardens also could be buying trouble from police if they don’t wait to start cultivating the weed until after the state launches its registration and licensing system, the nation’s drug czar said Thursday.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/uruguays-marijuana-growers-come-out-into-open/2013/12/28/0e8f302c-6fde-11e3-a5d0-6f31cd74f760_story.html

[idwiyo]

1. k&r

[ConcernedCanuk]

2. Sorry to be negative, but I'll bet the USA tries to muck it up.

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DEA, MIC, FBI or any number of the USA's alphabet soup agencies are gonna stick their nose in,

if they aren't doing so already.

It's just their way!

(sigh)

CC

[Judi Lynn]

3. Everyone involved in building, staffing, maintaining the vast US prison industry,

and the privately owned prisons, the towns where the prisons get located, etc., etc., etc., making the US the proud top of the heap in having the most people per capita incarcerated in the world, benefits from keeping everything just where they are now, with the same stream of small marijuana busts keeping the court system overloaded, and everyone except the small users and their loved ones well employed.

Gotta keep everything going the same since so many divine corporate heads outsourced the regular jobs US Americans used to hold.

Someone's gotta work to make money in order to pay taxes to keep Congress and all our other beloved politicians making legal money, in addition to the payoffs and excessive campaign contributions.