{"id":183882,"date":"2012-10-24T21:10:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T02:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/10\/24\/i-think-that-ill-vacation-in-uraguay\/"},"modified":"2012-10-24T21:10:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T02:10:00","slug":"i-think-that-ill-vacation-in-uraguay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/10\/24\/i-think-that-ill-vacation-in-uraguay\/","title":{"rendered":"I Think that I&#8217;ll Vacation in Uraguay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2012\/oct\/23\/jose-mujica-uruguay-legalise-cannabis\">Uruguay will legalize marijuana and sell it through state stores<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The president of Uruguay, Jos\u00e9 Mujica, has announced plans to legalise the production and sale of marijuana under a state monopoly, triggering a lively controversy in Montevideo. The relevant bill will soon be tabled in parliament, where the governing centre-left coalition led by the Broad Front (FA) enjoys a majority but is divided on this issue.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Possessing and consuming marijuana was decriminalised in 2000. &#8220;There is no question of Uruguay producing and distributing drugs, but the state will control and regulate the market,&#8221; said interior minister Eduardo Bonomi.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;We have a progressive tradition,&#8221; said Bonomi who, with Mujica, belonged to the Tupamaros urban guerrillas in the 1970s. &#8220;At the beginning of the 20th century our country ended the prohibition of alcohol, prostitution and gambling.&#8221; Abortion is currently in the process ofbeing legalised. &#8220;Our approach to marijuana is equally pragmatic,&#8221; Bonomi said. &#8220;The negative effects of consuming marijuana are far less harmful than the outbreak of violence associated with the black market.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do they have ice cream sammiches in Uruguay?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like Uruguay will legalize marijuana and sell it through state stores: The president of Uruguay, Jos\u00e9 Mujica, has announced plans to legalise the production and sale of marijuana under a state monopoly, triggering a lively controversy in Montevideo. The relevant bill will soon be tabled in parliament, where the governing centre-left coalition led &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1013,1068,1020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drugs","category-latin-america","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}