Global trendsetter? Uruguay moves to legalize marijuana.
Marijuana legalization: Uruguay's lower house of parliament set a global first last night by voting to give the state control of marijuana production, distribution, and sales.
“The trend is becoming irreversible,” argues Martin Jelsma of the Transnational Institute, a think-tank in Amsterdam. “The era of globally enforced marijuana prohibition […] is drawing to a close.”
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