Hemp can be bought in pharmacies Uruguay officially
Of the more than 1,200 registered pharmacies in the country, to engage in trade of medical cannabis at the moment it decided to only 50 pharmaceutical institutions.
Despite the fact that Uruguay became the first country in the world is completely legalize all aspects of the activity associated with the psychoactive cannabis back in 2013, only in the middle of last week in the country's pharmacies start selling the plant was officially given the rich cannabinoids. Of the more than 1,200 registered pharmacies in the country, to engage in trade of medical cannabis at the moment it decided to only 50 pharmaceutical institutions.
Several surprising to see such passivity in matters of Uruguayan pharmacists retail sale of medical cannabis, comparing the zeal of their counterparts from Canada and Germany. Pharmacology of the countries where officially authorized sale of psychoactive cannabis, doing everything possible as quickly as possible to get the exclusive rights to distribute medical cannabisa in the region of its activities.
Such behavior of pharmacists from Uruguay may be explained by the following reasons:
- Negative public opinion, which still do not see any difference between medical cannabis grown under state control and marijuana, actively sold on the black market. Pharmacists are not willing to deal with the "drug", as cannabis, according to them, will destroy the good reputation among regular pharmacy customers;
- Impact on the representatives of the pharmaceutical business of the country of clandestine drug dealers, who felt the competition from the state and realizing its potential defeat, pharmacists threatened with death in the event that they decide to engage in hemp business.
Despite such a passive start, the authorities look at the sales system psychoactive cannabis through a network of pharmacies with enthusiasm. Price officially sold medical cannabis is much less than on the illicit market due to the fact that in the framework of the state program of legal psychoactive hemp production is subsidized by the state. To date, the price of one gram of medical cannabis, purchased with a prescription from a pharmacy for less than the price of staple foods such as bread or eggs.
Comment of the Association "Ukrainian industrial hemp"
The situation in Uruguay for the identification of medical cannabis marijuana and illegal market like a "running" in the 30s of the last century in the United States similar to the action that led to the destruction before the most highly profitable branches of agriculture of the country - konoplevodstva. It can be argued that the slower will be a process of legal sales of medical cannabis in the territory of Uruguay, the longer the representatives of the country's drug market will receive the profits from the sale of marijuana on the illegal drug market.
The country's laws allow citizens of Uruguay on their own to cultivate six plants at home for personal use, subject to voluntary registration of their data in the appropriate public database. Alternatively, self-cultivation, Uruguayan citizens have the right to enter into a registered club, whose members divide their crop grown among all members of the organization. Until recently, the representatives of Uruguay drug markets have not seen this kind of competition in the local official psychoactive cannabis cultivation, as law enforcement is strictly followed in order to officially grown cannabis could not get on the illegal market. That is why any competition between private growers or specialized clubs and illegal market, until recently, was not observed. Now, when the sale of medical cannabis can be carried out officially by the pharmacy chains, drug dealers have felt a threat to their illegal business. That the representatives of the illegal market, trying to prevent a significant decrease in their business, are appealing to the previously imposed by speculation and fears of people in the country, trying to identify the psychoactive cannabis officially sold in pharmacies with marijuana, sold in the illegal drug market.
Given the fact that is a bill which "Run" mechanism for the use of cannabis for medical purposes, you need to learn to recognize the true motives of his opponents and now negotiate and write subordinate legal acts in the Supreme Council of Ukraine, on the basis, including on experience Uruguay on the matter.
Information taken from the site http://tku.org.ua