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Last week, Canada officially approved legalization of cannabis throughout the country. While it’s the first G7 nation to fully legalize cannabis, it’s the second in the world overall. The first? Uruguay, a country some of us struggle to pronounce, spell, or find on a map. (Don’t “ooooooh” me, y’all know it’s true.)
Uruguay is a nation of nearly 3.5 million, bordered by Argentina and Brazil, and it first legalized cannabis in 2013, with sales finally beginning in July 2017. Among the objectives for Uruguay’s legalization was to eliminate the robust unregulated market of weed coming in from nearby Paraguay. There isn’t an established medical cannabis program in Uruguay.