{"id":870,"date":"2012-10-24T07:58:46","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T07:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/?p=20266"},"modified":"2012-10-24T07:58:46","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T07:58:46","slug":"uruguay-moving-forward-with-plan-to-legalize-marijuana-and-combat-drug-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/uruguay-moving-forward-with-plan-to-legalize-marijuana-and-combat-drug-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Uruguay Moving Forward With Plan To Legalize Marijuana and Combat Drug Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/uruguay-moving-forward-with-plan-to-legalize-marijuana-and-combat-drug-violence\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/uruguay2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"uruguay\" title=\"uruguay\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-20268\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/uruguay-moving-forward-with-plan-to-legalize-marijuana-and-combat-drug-violence\/attachment\/uruguay-3\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-20268\" title=\"uruguay\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/uruguay2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>As<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/presidential-debate-on-foreign-policy-omits-international-war-on-drugs\/\" target=\"_blank\"> marijuana.net noted yesterday<\/a>, the escalating drug cartel violence received no mention during Monday\u2019s presidential debate.\u00a0 While many of our fellow Western Hemisphere countries look to The United States for leadership on the issue, we continue to maintain our failed drug policy.\u00a0 Fortunately, other countries in Central and South America are considering their own alternative to the 40 year failed War on drugs.<\/p>\n<p>For the last several months the Uruguay government has been discussing legalizing, regulating, and distributing marijuana.\u00a0 While there has been some opposition to legalization, the plan appears to be moving forward.\u00a0 Several government officials have made recent comments regarding the program.\u00a0 \u00a0Uruguay Interior Minister, Eduardo Bonomi recently said &#8220;We have a progressive tradition\u2026 The negative effects of consuming marijuana are far less harmful than the outbreak of violence associated with the black market.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Uruguay may be far along the process of altering their approach toward reducing drug war violence but they are not the only one.\u00a0 As the United States continues fighting the cartels in the traditional way, which involves gunfire and bloodshed, other countries now realize they will be responsible for their own safety and legislative direction.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalpost.com\/dispatch\/news\/regions\/americas\/colombia\/120630\/colombia-decriminalizes-cocaine-marijuana\" target=\"_blank\">Columbia has recently decriminalized<\/a> personal possession for marijuana and cocaine.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/health-and-families\/bolivia-seeks-decriminalization-of-coca-leaf-chewing-2192137.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bolivia <\/a>has also been attempting to decriminalize cocoa leaves.<\/p>\n<p>The people of the United States are war weary after a decade of The Afghanistan conflict and the recently ended Iraq operations.\u00a0 In this region America has taken note of our previous mistakes and has decided on a new direction in its approach toward dealing with Iran\u2019s pursuit of nuclear weapons.\u00a0 Instead, as we saw both President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney agree to during Monday\u2019s debate, economic sanctions have been used to put the pressure on Iran to come to the table and talk disarmament.\u00a0 In the modern world, economics can also be an effective weapon.\u00a0 While we applaud a progressive approach toward Iran, when will see the United States utilize and economic approach to stem the daily violence occurring close to home, not thousands of miles across the world.\u00a0 Legalization and regulation would reduce the drug cartel\u2019s power, influence, and purpose in the western hemisphere.\u00a0 If marijuana were regulated and available domestically, this could crush the cartels economically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/uruguay2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"uruguay\" title=\"uruguay\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-20268\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/uruguay-moving-forward-with-plan-to-legalize-marijuana-and-combat-drug-violence\/attachment\/uruguay-3\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-20268\" title=\"uruguay\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/uruguay2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>As<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/presidential-debate-on-foreign-policy-omits-international-war-on-drugs\/\" target=\"_blank\"> marijuana.net noted yesterday<\/a>, the escalating drug cartel violence received no mention during Monday\u2019s presidential debate.\u00a0 While many of our fellow Western Hemisphere countries look to The United States for leadership on the issue, we continue to maintain our failed drug policy.\u00a0 Fortunately, other countries in Central and South America are considering their own alternative to the 40 year failed War on drugs.<\/p>\n<p>For the last several months the Uruguay government has been discussing legalizing, regulating, and distributing marijuana.\u00a0 While there has been some opposition to legalization, the plan appears to be moving forward.\u00a0 Several government officials have made recent comments regarding the program.\u00a0 \u00a0Uruguay Interior Minister, Eduardo Bonomi recently said &#8220;We have a progressive tradition\u2026 The negative effects of consuming marijuana are far less harmful than the outbreak of violence associated with the black market.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Uruguay may be far along the process of altering their approach toward reducing drug war violence but they are not the only one.\u00a0 As the United States continues fighting the cartels in the traditional way, which involves gunfire and bloodshed, other countries now realize they will be responsible for their own safety and legislative direction.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalpost.com\/dispatch\/news\/regions\/americas\/colombia\/120630\/colombia-decriminalizes-cocaine-marijuana\" target=\"_blank\">Columbia has recently decriminalized<\/a> personal possession for marijuana and cocaine.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/health-and-families\/bolivia-seeks-decriminalization-of-coca-leaf-chewing-2192137.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bolivia <\/a>has also been attempting to decriminalize cocoa leaves.<\/p>\n<p>The people of the United States are war weary after a decade of The Afghanistan conflict and the recently ended Iraq operations.\u00a0 In this region America has taken note of our previous mistakes and has decided on a new direction in its approach toward dealing with Iran\u2019s pursuit of nuclear weapons.\u00a0 Instead, as we saw both President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney agree to during Monday\u2019s debate, economic sanctions have been used to put the pressure on Iran to come to the table and talk disarmament.\u00a0 In the modern world, economics can also be an effective weapon.\u00a0 While we applaud a progressive approach toward Iran, when will see the United States utilize and economic approach to stem the daily violence occurring close to home, not thousands of miles across the world.\u00a0 Legalization and regulation would reduce the drug cartel\u2019s power, influence, and purpose in the western hemisphere.\u00a0 If marijuana were regulated and available domestically, this could crush the cartels economically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[710,210,711,52,115,356,82,712,713,714,715,56,9,68,51,70,127,1,3,92,132,74,61],"tags":[3283,2788,3284,2632,2693,2934,2660,3285,3286,3287,3288,2636,2647,2631,5,2705,2670,2710,2652,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}