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"There will be a monthly limit of 40 grams per person and all consumers will have to register."

Does your government limit the amount of alcohol you can purchase per month and do you have to register to buy said alcohol? Because if not, that's rather ridiculous. I personally would not want to be on any sort of registry like that.




No, they don't, there are no alcohol licenses or registers or anything.

Stores don't need licenses to sell alcohol either.

We have the dubious record of being the biggest per capita consumers of Whiskey

http://elobservador.com.uy/noticia/256478/uruguay-primero-en...


I admire the progress your country has made thus far, but it seems so silly to limit the quantity you can buy. Especially considering you can overdose on alcohol and kill yourself, where you can't with marijuana.


Maybe it's to avoid foreign gangs buying up lots of legal weed and shipping it out of country.


You really think gangs will buy legal weed, including all the taxes?


They surely will because even with taxes it will be order of magnitudes cheaper than illegal one.


No, it's not. Example: Netherlands. Illegal weed is way, way cheaper than the one you can buy in any coffeeshop.


This is being discussed right now here in Uruguay. The price government is thinking is in the U$ 2 or 3 range for a gram, which is apparently higher than the black market.


It's still cheap. In the Netherlands prices are between 5€ and 11€ per gram.




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