Instead, Uruguay’s government has developed a legalization model whose apparent goal is to make marijuana use as boring as possible. The endeavor puts Uruguay (population: 3.4 million) at the forefront of a growing list of nations and U.S. states experimenting with marijuana. The experiment is not without skeptics and detractors — one reason it has taken longer than expected to fully implement the country’s legalization model. His successor, Tabaré Vázquez, a trained physician, largely has sought to play down the legalization experiment, seemingly wary of a potentially negative impact on Uruguay’s image. Uruguay’s cannabis connoisseurs have little interest in this marijuana-for-the-masses.

Source: Washington Post July 07, 2017 21:25 UTC