Thousands of people participate in marijuana march in Uruguay and ask for changes in the law

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Thousands of people went to the main avenue in Montevideo, capital of Uruguay, to participate in the Marijuana March of 2017 and ask for changes in the legislation of the country, especially the advance in the use of the plant in the medical field. The information is from the EFE Agency.
The activists marched from Montevideo's Plaza de Liberdade to the Executive Tower, the presidential seat, with protest signs. At the end of the demonstration, organizers read a manifesto and demanded "greater political will to enable possible access to medical marijuana as a plant species or food supplement."
In 2013, under the administration of President José Mujica, Uruguay approved the marijuana distribution and production law that established three modes of access to the substance: purchase in pharmacies, self-cultivation and consumer clubs for users.
However, access to medical marijuana is still restricted. "This is legally possible and humanly necessary to have the possibility of having quality standards, with guarantees of 'cannabis profile' and absence of toxicity," the manifesto says.
The organizers of the Marijuana March in Uruguay have asked that the Ministry of Health "unlock" the way for a national production of cannabis for medicinal purposes. "In this way, those with few resources will also be able to buy it and not only those that are richer and can pay the importation of the United States," they said.
Activists also cited the opening of the register so that users can buy marijuana in pharmacies. The process began on May 2 and has more than 1,400 people, 6,662 self-cultivators and 62 member clubs for herb consumption.
While acknowledging that registration has taken place "within law enforcement," demonstrators say there are only a handful of sites that distribute the drug. For this reason, they urged the government to improve the distribution network, oversee the two companies that won the bid to produce legal marijuana, and increase the quality and quantity controls of production.
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