Topic: South America

Peru’s conservative leadership legalizes medical marijuana

• Legal marijuana sales in Uruguay face challenges from banks
• Paraguay’s booming marijuana export traffic attracting gangs and violence
• Legal cannabis sales begin in Uruguay under landmark 2013 law
• Chile starts medical cannabis pilot program
• Uruguay opens registry for world’s first government-run marijuana market
• Argentina legalizes medical cannabis, creates research program with free access
• Global ganja: Cannabis policies rapidly evolving
• Peru’s president wants to legalize medical marijuana
• A majority of pharmacists in Uruguay don’t want to sell pot, here’s why
• How the Americas are leading the way to a new weed world order
• World’s weed growers have new rival to fear from South America
• Chile medical marijuana: First harvest slated for 200 cancer patients
• Chile plants seeds for country’s new medical marijuana program