Will Uruguay legalize marijuana?

Uruguay is showing a novel approach to Latin America’s growing fatigue with the war on drugs with a new proposal: normalize marijuana use and hand over its distribution and marketing to the government.

Under a plan Defense Minister Eleuterio Fernández Huidobro announced late Wednesday, which the leftist government will soon present to lawmakers, the state will oversee sales, which would be allowed only to adults 18 and older.

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