It’s a policy that would be a hammer blow to criminal gangs. It would stop criminalising non-violent people, drastically undermine racist policing, be good for people’s health and it would…

José “Pepe” Mujica shot back on Friday at the president of the International Narcotics Control Board, a U.N. agency, for saying that his administration refused to meet with the agency’s…

The world’s most far-reaching cannabis law has been passed by the Uruguayan parliament, opening the way for the state to regulate the production, distribution, sale and consumption of the planet’s…

Uruguay’s president wants the world to lend him a hand in his quest to legalize weed. In an interview with Brazilian daily A Folha de São Paulo published Sunday, José…

The government of Uruguay makes Scotch whisky. It also makes and sells rum, vodka and cognac, and has done so for nearly a century. Many people consider this sideline of…

MONTEVIDEO, Sept 5, 2012 (AFP) -Uruguayan President Jose Mujica said Wednesday that if parliament were to pass a groundbreaking bill allowing the state to sell marijuana, drug tourism would not…

Uruguay has one of the best drug policy in the continent. In Uruguay, the law does not criminalize the use of drugs or their possession for personal consumption.   Additionally,…