| inbluevt | Date: Sunday, 2013/08/04, 8:51 AM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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The "weed brothers" have been turning away potential pot-buying customers from their tiny shop in downtown Montevideo quite a lot recently. "They come about three times a day to ask if we're selling
marijuana yet," say Juan and Enrique Tubino. They've had to put up a sign stating: "We don't sell marijuana.
"It's not just because the Tubino brothers keep their shop packed high with cannabis pipes, herb grinders and rolling paper – or because of the giant green hookah in the display window – that would-be customers are pouring in. The big excitement is because tiny Uruguay, a country so small that a single dialling code covers the whole territory, is about to become the first in the world to legalise the production and sale of marijuana. The Tubinos are hoping that their Yuyo Brothers shop (yuyo is Spanish for weed) can capitalise on its fame among Montevideo cannabis users to sell legally what goes into the pipes.
"When people think of liberal drug laws, they tend to think of Holland, but actually it's Uruguay that has always been at the forefront," says Hannah Hetzer, a young dual-nationality Austrian-American from the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) who landed in Uruguay in February to help local drug reform activists. The DPA is a weighty US drug policy reform NGO that can boast tycoons such as George Soros and Richard Branson and celebrities including Sting on its board of directors. "Uruguay never
banned private consumption of any drug at all, including hard drugs such as heroin, even though their production and sale is banned," says Hetzer.
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Visitors examine smoking paraphernalia during Uruguay’s second Cannabis Cup contest last month in Montevideo.
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