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Marijuana museum opens in Uruguay

December 9, 2016

A museum dedicated to all things marijuana was inaugurated in Montevideo, Uruguay. The government legalized the cultivation and sale of marijuana in 2013 in a bid to create the world's first regulated, legal national marketplace for pot. The goal was to fight rising homicide and crime rates associated with drug trafficking in the South American country.

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