The historic sale of marijuana for recreational use in Uruguay will begin next Wednesday at a local pharmacy group, the Uruguayan government announced today. The presidency ratified in a statement that the state-owned Cannabis Regulation and Control Institute (IRCCA) resolved to comply with the sale of controlled marijuana in pharmacies since July 19.
"To date, 16 pharmacies adhere to the system and comply with all the requirements demanded by the Institute, ensuring the provisions established" in the law passed in 2013 to regulate the production and sale of this drug.
The schedule for the sale of marijuana to pharmacists has been the most controversial and complex point of the law, presented and approved during the term of former president Jos Mujica (2010-2015) as a strategy to fight against drug trafficking.
For this last stage of sale of "non-medical use psychoactive cannabis", and that will allow to fulfill 100% with the application of the legislation, it is anticipated to announce the list of pharmacies adhered the same Wednesday 19.
The institute authorized the sale of two types of marijuana, which will be marketed in packages of 5 and 10 grams.
According to the regulator, pharmacies will sell "cannabis flowers packaged in a natural state, dried out".
Juan Andrs Roballo, the undersecretary of the Uruguayan presidency - under the aegis of the National Drug Board - expressed satisfaction with the media over the closure of the timetable and indicated that "adequate agreement was reached between production, The adherence of pharmacies and the number of people registered. "
Cost effectiveness?
IRCCA notes that since the registration process began on May 2 and through July 10, 4,711 people have registered to buy marijuana, 60% in Montevideo and the rest in the other 18 departments (provinces ).
The majority of those registered are persons between 30 and 44 years old (four out of ten registered), natural or legal residents in Uruguay, whose population is about 3.4 million inhabitants.
The previous discussion as well as the implementation of the legislation has been surrounded by controversy in Uruguay.
This law allows three ways to access cannabis: self-cultivation in homes; Cooperative cultivation in clubs and sale in marijuana pharmacies produced by private companies controlled by the State.
Pharmacists are skeptical about the profitability of the business: every registered person has the right to buy 40 grams a month, at $ 1.30 a gram.
They are also concerned about the number of people registered and how they will prepare the people who will be in charge of the sale, in addition to the security of their businesses, which slows the adhesion.
The product to be sold has also been criticized by people linked to the activity, as this week the president of the Endocannabinology Society of Uruguay, Raquel Peyraube, told local media that this cannabis "does not strike anything" (it has no psychoactive effect ). Others say it will favor the black market offer.
But Roballo went out to the crossing. "I do not share that statement at all, let's see how the system works and then we talk."
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