Dude: Pot clubs set to go legal in Uruguay

Dude: Pot clubs set to go legal in Uruguay

Nation's ambitious plans to roll out a state-supervised marijuana distribution system moves into the next major phase.

By Mary Papenfuss | Nov. 1, 2014 at 7:08 AM

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- Marijuana clubs are now registering with the government of Uruguay as the first nation in the world to approve a state-run system to supervise distribution of the drug takes its plan to the next major phase.
Under the new law, passed last year, licensed clubs of up to 45 members will be allowed to grow a maximum of 99 plants each year. They can't be withing 164 yards of a lower school, college or drug rehab center.

Over the summer growing up to six pot plants at home became legal. The government hopes that pot will be sold at the nation's pharmacies by next year, though it's well behind schedule rolling out the national system.

Experts estimate that some 150,000 Uruguayans regularly smoke pot, but the issue is still a sensitive one in the nation just as voters are preparing to turn out for a presidential runoff election the end of November.

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