Uruguay mulls government marijuana sales

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Well -- -- plan in the works to legalize marijuana and put the government in charge of selling it.

No not here.

Lawmakers in south American country of Europe why are debating the measure which would make -- government be first in all the world to sell marijuana.

Officials say it'll help fight crime and that profits would go to drug rehab programs.

This comes amid growing public support for legalization and decriminalization of pot here regulate it tax it.

Make money off the largest unregulated market in the history of the world.

Back to the lawyers now Randy -- and Arthur I know Randy puts -- well -- let's over the.

The fear I think that the general population does.

-- the addiction of -- and the addiction to marijuana.

And I looked -- Amsterdam even though it's not legal in Amsterdam they -- and it's tolerated.

And what the united nations office of drug and crime has said.

14% of Americans use marijuana only 5%.

Of the Dutch -- -- So what -- the place where it's more -- 16% of of Americans use -- fourteen according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

They should say 40% admit -- we go okay.

And but only five admitted in the -- the Dutch and so where is more accessible you have less people using it or fewer fewer people and they -- making a lot of money.

That means a whole bunch of course the Germans are driving their cars over there and they've eliminated some areas because the Germans want their cars too much but that's another matter -- -- The devil may be in your details -- let me tell you something when -- seventeen year old.

You catch and drinking and underage you don't say it's okay as long as you do with me.

That is not how you deal with this situation marijuana and they gonna put on the bed don't operate heavy machinery don't get into a car here.

-- I think you prevent Iran going to.

How do you prevent the person that the government is selling it to from getting into the caucuses from giving it to someone else and it's selling it to somebody yeah.

-- by way of observation we're gonna talk a couple police friends about this.

It's very hard for kids to get alcohol now because the penalties against the sellers -- distribute of the alcohol -- so -- You can get according to these -- -- whom I spoke you do there's no age limit on pot right now.

And you can get it delivered to your house at least in this city -- police officers more quickly than you can't have pizza.

So the one way to keep it at a kids' hands is not to let the drug dealers decide who gets it but maybe to -- I'm not advocating for or against.

I'm just saying that the way it is right now anybody can get it -- a lot easier to get in the Budweiser and I got -- tables -- and we noticed that well the thought there's that we all got together to deal with our kids and drinking.

Yeah well -- here.

This is pot upholds a much bigger problem who holds a huge problem -- -- -- -- -- bigger but -- -- big problem the Dow.

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