MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — Uruguay’s Senate was finishing its final debate Tuesday before voting on an audacious and risky plan to create the world’s first national marijuana market, with the state regulating the entire process of growing, selling and using a drug that is illegal almost everywhere else in the world. Approval late Tuesday was all but assured, given the ruling coalition’s majority and support from President Jose Mujica, who says he’s convinced the global drug war is a failure and that state regulations can do a better job than weapons to contain addictions and defeat a thriving illegal market.
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