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Uruguay to sell legal marijuana for $1 a gram
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/22/uruguay-legal-marijuana-drug-traffickersUruguay's drug tsar says the country plans to sell legal marijuana for $1 a gram to combat drug-trafficking, according to a local newspaper.
The plan to create a government-run legal marijuana industry has passed the lower house of Congress, and Uruguay's president, José Mujica, expects to push it through the Senate soon as part of his effort to explore alternatives in the war on drugs.
Marijuana sales should start in the second half of 2014 at a price of about $1 a gram, drug chief Julio Calzada told Uruguay's El País, on Sunday – an eighth or less of what it costs at legal medical dispensaries in some US states.
The plan to create a government-run legal marijuana industry has passed the lower house of Congress, and Uruguay's president, José Mujica, expects to push it through the Senate soon as part of his effort to explore alternatives in the war on drugs.
Marijuana sales should start in the second half of 2014 at a price of about $1 a gram, drug chief Julio Calzada told Uruguay's El País, on Sunday – an eighth or less of what it costs at legal medical dispensaries in some US states.
I think this should be implemented here in America. It's a win-win for everyone, the US would be spending much less of our tax money growing and selling marijuana for $1 a gram than it currently spends fighting the "war on drugs" and Americans would have access to quality, affordable cannabis in a safe and well regulated location.
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Fox News would be dead air in a month.
The most pressing wedge issue would become the Great Nacho Shortage of 2014. 
