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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/22/2013 11:21 AM, Scott Dredge
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<div dir="ltr">Tom asks:<br>
<Que pasa, V-Peeps?><br>
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Estoy feliz hoy<br>
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<span tabindex="-1" id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span
class="hps">Eso es bueno</span> <span class="hps">porque hay</span>
<span class="hps">casi tantos</span> <span class="hps">hispanohablantes</span>
<span class="hps">en los Estados Unidos</span><span>, ya que hay</span>
<span class="hps">en</span> <span class="hps">España</span><span>.</span>
<span class="hps">España</span> <span class="hps">cuenta con</span>
<span class="hps">38.588.817</span><span>,</span> <span
class="hps">y</span> <span class="hps">los EE.UU.</span> <span
class="hps">tiene</span> <span class="hps">38.325.155</span><span>.</span>
<span class="hps">Hispanohablantes</span> <span class="hps">forman</span>
<span class="hps">el 13 por ciento</span> <span class="hps">de la
población estadounidense</span><span>.</span><br>
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<span class="hps">La población de habla</span> <span class="hps">española</span>
<span class="hps">de</span> <span class="hps">Uruguay</span> <span
class="hps">es</span> <span class="hps">3.136.114</span><span>.<br>
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Ken<br>
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That's good because there are almost as many Spanish speakers in
the United States as there are in Spain. Spain has 38,588,817,
and the U.S. has 38,325,155. Native Spanish speakers form about
13 percent of the American population.<br>
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The Spanish-speaking population of Uruguay is 3,136,114. <br>
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<hr id="stopSpelling">From: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</a><br>
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 10:54:45 -0700<br>
To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>
Subject: [Vision2020] Uruguay Plans to Sell Legal Marihuana
for $1 per Gram<br>
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<div style="">I have only one question . . . </div>
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<div style="">Que pasa, V-Peeps?</div>
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<div style="">Courtesy of <b
style="font-style:italic;">Class Warfare Exists </b>at:</div>
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href="http://www.classwarfareexists.com/uruguay-plans-to-sell-legal-marijuana-for-1-a-gram/"
target="_blank">http://www.classwarfareexists.com/uruguay-plans-to-sell-legal-marijuana-for-1-a-gram/</a></span></div>
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<div style="">And ABC News at:</div>
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target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/n59myeq</a></span></div>
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<div style=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,
255, 255, 0);"><b>Uruguay Plans to Sell Legal
Marihuana for $1 per Gram</b></span></div>
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255, 255, 0);"><br>
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<div style=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,
255, 255, 0);">Uruguay’s drug czar has announced
the country’s latest plan to combat illegal drug
trafficking: Legalize the sale of marijuana and
set the prices so low that the drug dealers cannot
compete. </span></div>
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255, 255, 0);"><br>
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<div style=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,
255, 255, 0);">As AP reports:</span></div>
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255, 255, 0);"><br>
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<div style=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,
255, 255, 0);"><span style="">"</span>The plan to
create a government-run legal marijuana industry
has passed the lower house of Congress, and
President Jose Mujica expects to push it through
the Senate soon as part of his effort to explore
alternatives in the war on drugs.</span></div>
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<p style="padding:0px;"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The
measure would make Uruguay the first country in
the world to license and enforce rules for the
production, distribution and sale of marijuana
for adult consumers.</span></p>
<p style="padding:0px;"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Marijuana
sales should start in the second half of 2014 at
a price of about $1 per gram, drug chief Julio
Calzada told a local newspaper, El Pais, on
Sunday."</span></p>
<p style="padding:0px;"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The
stunningly low price (an 8th of what it costs at
dispensaries in the United States) is not meant
to be profitable. Instead, the cost would make
competing against the government prices nearly
impossible. The Uruguayan government hopes this
price fixing will serve as a monetary
disincentive to those looking to profit from the
illicit sale of the drug.</span></p>
<p style="padding:0px;"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“The
illegal market is very risky and of poor
quality,” he said. The State “is going to offer
a safe place to buy a quality product and on top
of that, it’s going to sell it at the same
price.”</span></p>
<p style="padding:0px;"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In
August, he had estimated that the price would be
around $2.50 per gram.</span></p>
<p style="padding:0px;"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Smoking
marijuana has long been legal in Uruguay, but
growing, carrying, buying or selling it has
called for prison terms. Now, Uruguay turns to
controlling the market rather than fighting it.</span></p>
<p style="padding:0px;"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The
model is very different than the one the United
States has been adopting recently.</span></p>
<p style="padding:0px;"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Washington
has imposed a heavy 25% tax on each of the three
parts of pot production: producer to processor,
processor to retailer and retailer to customer.
Regulators say that will put the price of
marijuana pretax at an average of $12 a gram, a
price that the ACLU’s Holcomb says is
competitive with illicit pot on the street.
Colorado votes on its pot tax — a less onerous
15% excise tax and 10% sales tax."</span></p>
<p style="padding:0px;"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">These
prices will still try to be competitive with
street value of marijuana so as to encourage
people to use the legal stuff, but the idea has
always been to make a profit. One of the ways
marijuana legalization advocates in the U.S.
have gotten politicians and the public to soften
towards the drug is by suggesting that it will
benefit the economy through taxation.</span></p>
<p style="padding:0px;"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In
case you’re already on travelocity booking your
flight to Uruguay, the government doesn’t plan
on being the next marijuana vacation
destination. The law limits the sale of legal
marijuana to locals only.</span></p>
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