smoke is injuries for health causes of diseases cancer i'm smoking weed with the president of uruguay, at his farm outside of montevideo. last year colorado became the first state in the us to legalize recreational marijuana. but here in uruguay the government is getting ready to legalize and regulate weed across the country from ?city? to smoke so we came here to figure out how they are going to pull this off is it going to be a smoker's paradise or an overly regulated cash crop for the government in december 2013 uruguay congress passed a law that regulated the cultivation, sale and consumption of marijuana it was a watershed moment in the historyof pot prohibition first entire country decided toeradicate the brutal legacy of the war
on drugs and open up the potential of anew legitimate economy but we'd is an entirely legal yet fromdecember until april of this year the government has been debating and writingthe specifics of the regulations which will likely be set in stone in lateapril and then take effect as fall turns out the devil is in the details and thelaw poses more questions than answers about individual liberty the prospect ofa commercial we boom and more the great uruguayan experiment broughtforward by the country's progressive president has stirred up a heated debatefrom both sides of anti prohibition aisle
alysia castilla and danielle vide arelong time we'd advocates and academics alicia was just released from prisonwhere she spent three months locked up on marijuana charges she was one of the last people to be putaway for pot when you visit them in their home just outside the country'scapital yeah it will be i say no but cena soconsumidor they can have esata aproximadamente cincuenta use me parisooh la la rep receiver k league elisa l if tu mamaque sigue en relaciones con su madura no
corresponding le cadeau de estar a lapersona no corresponding electronic regular las no creo que tipo que de quesi funciona la da de terminar de cuanto se puede llamar de mas cuando la personasarah heat ray solo para consumer la marihuana kelly todd oliva a proportionare in oct / miguel de decir cual es la marihuana casa de mar de veinte veinte iinterest in a ser de tu nuevo como deleted i mas los le narcotraficantes no no paraver eso mercado a problem nt african marijuana de mejor calidad y mejorprecio haha so you think the government will beterrible growing weed
you're not gonna do it on a couch aregrowing we can go see yo entiendo table everybody bad oh yeah those are big it took a shot isiendo our order soon aletta cuando la serre 11 de la persona sarahy trimsupport tonight after safe planters and you don't want to register because youdon't want the government to know what you're doing yo quiero que los veo que eres de graciasolo holiness la comunidad de todo lo que sabemos lo que la la la puedo hacercon los indios oh no que hemos tenido el caso de que no do you
farah here and that and you're sort of30 those of us who say they're con la e que vas hacer con una persona quetendrã¡ que tras la a guru you change your i keep it all bottled up but i where shecalled is alysia just being paranoid have theyears of forced criminality soured her on the very first pass of the law orthis year ago i just need to give it a try and go from there the big question is how does the conceptof individual liberty rub against the government's desire to regulate therollout of full legalization
we went to the office of julio calzadahe's the secretary general of the national commission of drugs the guy who's actually writing theregulations in a little why a consume all the marijuana and added the mainocean - 10 de cuatro you don't they got into an you to bemore they're gonna want to monitor and pondo those who are you the marijuana i could survey last yearna de comer conmigo but a kid it is retention controllabilitymcclurkin suma de mesa de la puerta de que la persona que hora for much in thevalleys with the movs a memento
here's how secretary calls on his officehas crafted the rules if you're over 18 there will be three ways to get yourweed one grow yourself and if you do you'll be limited to six plants to buyit at a pharmacy you can only buy 40 grams a month andthe price will be fixed at a dollar a gram and three you and a couple friendscan form a club to grow up to 99 plants for your own personal use medicalresearch and development will be spearheaded by the government but thequestion remains who will actually grow all the weeds sold in pharmacies andmost importantly how will the black market of we'd actually be stamped outwhatever you choose you will have to
write your name down in a centralregistry that will forever mark you as a good-for-nothing eat next owner and the law only applies to citizens ofuruguay tourists cannot buy weed weed smoking is nothing new in uruguay where was all that weed coming from andhow did uruguay function in the broader south american illicit drug economy guillermo garage is a journalist who'swritten a book about drugs in uruguay we paid him a visit to talk about what kindof weed your clients are actually smoking
oh no gasps acquired and i know - idon't know why argentina i would accede achiely about how are you - why it was aprince how but i was never get away in contact in latin america i know is i buyit there but it turns into a sealed opening for the white party they'regoing to the lord ok let's start with this if you got myneed up there excited as a dog uruguay has beentacitly supporting the black market since it legalized use in the seventiesbut in raw numbers a black market isn't that huge of a problem uruguay is a tiny country with apopulation of about 3.4 million people
and only eight percent of uruguayanadmit to smoking weed for legalization activists and growers like one vazbringing black market growing out into the open holds great promise so one is now going to take us to anunderground indoor grow up here in montevideo which is still technicallylegal that kind of represents have a growing culture has been here in thecity so this right here is paraguay and shitbrick weed it's like really the only stuff that youcan find on the street so one of the reasons why legalization is so hot rightnow is because people want to get better
weed and what better way of doing thatthan growing your own oh well 30 points i mean this is still illegal not regulated in the cups in here theywould take all the grasp of the judge will let's go just one sea of green meet eyes with the idea and the sourcevideos out that it is tapas a plant as my grandma's italianleaders collison momenta load across your deskit the most self para perros de la
elecciã³n the freedom of legalizationand the restrictions of regulation are in some ways two sides of the same coin we left montevideo and headed out tocarnivale at the beach town of la pedrera to see what young people thinkabout registering with the government so every year before lent people aroundsouth america go crazy for carnivale so this is sort of europe wise versionof it here in a beach town called la pedrera where thousands of peopleconverge from around the country to go file you
you think that's like young people whoare going to sign up for the registry album which actions into but we'retalking to your doctor . be important am i you know what to get educated step onhere did you get for my oh you're okay so it's not successfully . well it'sbeen an hour and what do you think of that there is this family remember book am i not my heart better way that timeanyone everyone wants something
hillary we'd is going to be legal and the kidswere going apeshit the carnival party years didn't seem to care at all aboutthe stigma attached to registering buy weed and much of the celebration wasabout the potential of getting better weed to smoke come to cabo polonio a one-horse shantytown built in the side of the beach in a nature reserve this is sort of this spiritual center ofmarijuana culture historically in every way
so we're going to see how people arereacting to legalization and its consequences alejandra diana is a longtime residentagreed to show us around alejandro well that is that is cocolonia is na na pequeno see anyghosts in the mountainous wallow in self-pity or the four dollars decisionanalysis then he left because even a simple ago because you see the coaches no se no se nada con otrotiempo de una manera de tanto de nosotros somos gente pero tenemos unamomento mã¡ximos en tiempo de verano
k viendo una persona y como una preguntaque me siento como si te lo menos que va a sacar una zona escuchanos hoy por sino se porque no tenemos una casa del vecino como vc nomas que es una plantade todos modos de mar de la cita para ser la muchacha de cima de la planta quela tomas santo cielo como plant asada with alyssa para conectarte only . sohow many plants do you have going here macabre ideas yes if you have ten that'sabove the you know limit that you're allowed to have legally right they gothrough solamente te de se todavia en tres y eso que el numero de landa'svideo it sounds arbitrary like the laws isarbitrary right it's just a number
because they had to come up with anumber aparte de buddha economica a party c'est la planta de semana santa nokianokia estamos en su planta que muchos anos de propiedad de muy bajo la tierraen mi seã±or es como pintar centaurea an open-toe marcus in a problem . theseinclude any personal physician on you culo e la kuya know what you wanna know music okay spending time in the ca weather here ilike okay so put it on yet juan vaz a spokesperson for growerslobbying group that advises the
government about regulation responded tothe many critics we met around the country he spent 11 months in jail because ofweed la le cambia el paraiso de comic orbrowse para seguir luchando por lo que nosotros pensando que mucho muy fã¡cilde sentarse de enfrente de sã©rie i porque solo cuenta de ramos por que ceroseis plantas porque porque porque no no i cover participar lo de toda la naciã³na ver que por suerte sanjay plan de los muertos on quadrant aramos porque dicenpero mucho mas restrict you own the congress passed a law in december by athin margin that split along the
country's to party lines veronica lanza was the deputy leader ofthe opposition party yo yo t know when i cannot replace yes la droga venir para que no se aprendemozambique on asia's sabemos que las drogas si tiene que el mundo pero notenemos por que aprender economy con que tengo mas que se siente quatro porciento de hablar en contra de acuerdo en estudio de opinion in questa opinion yocreo que estã¡ el gobierno y mucho a la gente en el barrio santa cuando sepregunta si prefieres que narco-traffickers en cara de la genteesta hora pero ella tiene cinco por
ciento de los muchachos a preferred latarde esta medio de mente que una una de que tomar el para pensar lo que como sinada nomas estaba pensando in european sizes you are yo creo que la gente no creaky laseducciã³n el problema narco-trafficking por ejemplo yo quiero ser pero esteproducto de operaciones la presion antenna bikini consume marijuana programparte la presion international cano y una picadura financiero como el casorose in de la mente que es una presiã³n international george soros is a hungarian-bornamerican business magnate who has given
over 8 billion dollars to variousprogressive movements of the past two decades congresswoman alonso charges that sorosunduly influenced the internal politics of your guys debate by donating money toyour client organizations in favor of full legalization is there someleft-wing conspiracy at play we ask pedro of brahma the head of thelatin american program at the george soros funded open society foundation it's really easy to challenge good ideaswith the conspiracy theories and which organizations that you support and howmuch money was given to them
the man was issued supportive was aprodigious that they ran a campaign on streets on tv to give information aboutwhat would be the the consequences of relation what was the facts of thecurrent legislation again this is less than one percent ofour expenditures in latin america in a given year while it took the concerted efforts ofinterest groups like one vices and pr campaigns by pretentious thelegalization of marijuana in uruguay will be the legacy of the country'schief executive president pepe josã© mujica he has become a worldwide liberaldarling
because of weed legalization and hisadministration's efforts to legalize gay marriage and abortion and his life storyis even more astounding he was a former guerrilla fighter wasshot six times by police in the seventies and spent 14 years in prisonhe donates ninety percent of his income to charity and has decided to live athis modest farm rather than at the lavish official presidential palace dude is legit so we're out in front of the executivebuilding in the center of months of the day oh and we're waiting for thepresident's car to take us to his farm
which is about half an hour outside ofthe city that's where he lives and that's wherewe're going to interview for the day so the president's house at the end ofnote dirt road stray cats or dogs in the street and kind of like missiles arearound overall like a really hbu colic in microkind of a beautiful place to live background that work in please i will know beyond consider allresistant area katie meanwhile cambia you're a mandarla cumbia coke seojun can you think you're here we need a plan to yard
it's gonna be the winning at the elmundo conserve our get on camera is your and mine now and we were holy soul look in the suit wrote down more day andfor intelligent good traffic from google and older than his own miguel is acastle oh no from in demo will consume more than anyone for the contrary ohtour edition foreign citizen placido will be organ summary wanna see lessattention a goodra por eso te more that's our plan time and i will knowwhere it is you do that but raha hoon of cloning body and difficult in theventilation aversion lookin from your she get it going to me too much you gotthe name of the interview go
yamaha that was a very common that likeshe was had been there for the temporary my way to my own party will keep herhere no pasa nada our she did almost on parthey want a yeah no i get that many commenting in that position the flu andsome people we've talked to find it very dangerous that they have to put theirname on the registration list in order to buy marijuana the pharmacy or inorder to grow they remember the times of the dictatorship when the state could enact its powerupon the individual citizen and they don't want the stigma attached to themof being a stoner
so as far as those laws are written doyou support or you know what do you think of this sort of like registry bookof marijuana users in movie so it's in in more twitter and moral fable and move they cannot cantando todo lo que hace loque he's a bunch of world or lao shi gay so oh it got your support in america andthe quote that talkie , particularly in division para toda la vida she gave the basic contract it's obviousthat woman and no got this indian is a year in the shower and get a possibleshown us a few min their self
what are the responsibilities that comewith being the first country in the world the entire world to have the wholemarijuana industry legalized and regulated this is the reason my mom google hasshown to marco guess she say who lesson magically delicious you consume mymemory when is she you know she means well you're my soul mate we consume and a tomar glenda teennecesito came upon a room in there alida in difficult hablo de luto control whenno nor oro pero cuando empieza la prima
they have intention of moving away yourpashto ghuli de tokyo dominate the camino guess she and then you can removethat are they bring me in gonna go travel we go you gotta mow be or so what is theposition of the state in order to help get rid of the black market as you saidhas been such a scourge sort of in south america no i just here but i said my mother isthat going to be w ya know mikhail pero shared know why somebody said and paranosotros vamos a free down leverage economica porque todo a su negocio
they also practicamente monokini thebrac pika - drock p.m. only on getting completed or is it our controller polarthe cow oh so no more inherent experiencingcassey ho the us , taher flitter international very actual moon banco para eso lo deeso si o si lo que maken-ki we gonna pee in the bushes leader mundo but as you have fully decision recordduring your presidency you have been able to marry ideas of theprogressive left with pro-business policies and it seems to me that thiswould be a missed opportunity with
marijuana because you're wise of thefirst full nation could be able to not only not only legalize it for itscitizens but be able to produce it here and then exported around the world andbe a center for scientific research about you know various aspects ofmarijuana that might be medicinal capacity capilla del revelation ofcourse your lemon pieces yet within the app is a mucha printing animal they pushplay rock a pedo pero como el pasito forget the name of the public courses amen . camino que no no same dynamichealy korean in town see the no public can in a political reformer pilgrimprevents is coming under the interment
the poor player in lotro the poor boy inthe order but whatever should be able to join really are and don't say is thatthe name of the devil are a good wash two ways press your not proper and lita meanthings but i guarantee no kyra initially lose phone ok a que por que forma parte con triuneedition atomic or andrew kalley that area and recording now i got it to be ori think a lot of people who support regulation and legalization see smokingweed is a matter of personal liberty for freedom
really so i'm wondering what what isyour conception of freedom you know brewing my medium anyone conoco to be cro she personally rejectedon with the monitor / - frito that you were telling thing gah know that danglethat way comparable your time for a keto and it's just never happened in syriawill double she saw you have been dnt knows are youa printers vehicle the problem to me my neither where they hit upon to beat embefore oh that that is how old is it what year is it from e is a little chinpinoy you very much and we know this one
playable show you all drugged out whatyou got another do you have another one you're going to you with lou you don't got two cars the president's take on weed is prettypaternalistic even a bit inaccurate there's never been a medical consensuson physical we dependency but since he's the one spearheadinguruguay is efforts it seems clear why the regulations areso specific and so stringent judging from what pepe said making weed acommodity isn't really that important to his government and the prospect ofexporting it to other countries seems
far-fetched the pes term ends in 2015and the groundwork to become a center for weed research and cultivation hasbeen laid but from an american perspective it kindof feels like uruguay is blowing it our experience of legalization has beenone big a cash grab dispensaries raking in millions and states like colorado andmaybe one day california filling holes in their budgets from the increasedtaxes the cannabis republic of uruguay is taking a different path a six plants per person one dollar agram nanny state to be sure no one in uruguay is going to jail over sensibleuse anymore but weed smokers are by
nature a tad anti-authoritarian so itmakes sense that so many people here r ankle against the regulations but hey atleast you'll be better equipped to get super stoned step 8 i know that you're againstsmoking marijuana but it's legal to do it recreationally and i'm wondering you mind if i do atarget you know tomorrow and they'll throw ahomeowner in below 450 or no tengo nada brocation moon i'm smoking weed with president columbiain a country usually
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