This is the model I want in the US. Let's defund the drug dealers and allow people to grow a little pot at home.

By Elisha Fieldstadt, NBC News
Uruguay has moved one important step closer to becoming the first country to have a legal, government regulated marijuana industry — but the president warns stoner tourists shouldn't light up in celebration just yet.
Fifty members of Uruguay’s lower house of Congress late Wednesday voted in favor creating a government entity — the National Cannabis Institute, which would monitor the cultivation and sales of marijuana. Forty-six members voted against the bill, which is heavily backed by Uruguay’s leftist president, Jose Mujica.
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