Today June 19, 2017 is a historic day for Uruguay as marijuana began to be sold legally in some Uruguayan pharmacies previously registered to be able to sell cannabis with a maximum of 40 grams per month ($ 1.30 US per gram) and a registration requirement Previous in a national registry with about 5,000 registered of which they congregated high rows in the day of today.

This historic process is unique in the world since it includes both the production and sale of cannabis by the state, it should be noted that only 16 pharmacies have registered for the sale of cannabis, but for the promoters of the new law has been everything A success exhausting the stock of cannabis in only hours.

Marijuana sold in pharmacies has special features that make it very easy for authorities to identify whether marijuana was produced by the state and detect possible trafficking activities. The crop is developed hermetically on fields monitored by the army.