LatinNews Daily Report - 03 August 2012

POLITICS & SECURITY | Uruguayan government to go ahead with legalisation proposal. On 2 August the assistant secretary of the presidency, Diego Cánepa, and the president of the national drugs board (JND), Julio Calzada, told the chamber of representatives’ commission on addiction that next week, the government of President José Mujica will send to congress a one-article bill which, if approved, would authorise the executive to plant, process, distribute and sell marijuana, leaving any future regulation in the hands of the executive. This has displeased the opposition, which wants the executive to make a clear and detailed proposal. It is yet unclear whether the executive will submit a bill allowing the cultivation of marijuana for personal consumption, which most legislators would back.

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