Uruguay to Become First Nation to Fully Legalize Marijuana

Mark Karlin @ Buzzflash - It's about 5200 air miles in distance between Washington DC and Montevideo, Uruguay, but the separation in terms of drug policies is about to become a whole lot wider.

Given the passage of a sweeping new law legalizing marijuana in the entire nation of Uruguay by their Congress on August 2 (with the apparent inevitable passage by the Uruguayan Senate this fall), the South American nation is likely to become the first nation to set the dominoes of a ruinous US drug war policy to tumbling down.  Read more.