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The city has taken the first step toward establishing guidelines for medical marijuana dispensaries that might be looking to open in New Port Richey. Medical marijuana dispensaries will not be allowed in New Port Richey's downtown zoning district, but they could pop up in any commercial and...

The legal sale of marijuana in Uruguayan pharmacies is facing challenges as banks refuse to deal with companies linked to the drug in order to follow international financial laws. A government official said Friday that Uruguayan banks risk running afoul of laws that ban receiving money tied...

Pharmacies in Uruguay started selling marijuana Wednesday under a four-year-old law that has made the small South American country the first in the world to legalize pot from production to sale. At a pharmacy in Montevideo's old town, five customers were waiting to buy when the store shutters...

Uruguay has become the first country in the world to legally sell marijuana for recreational use. Sixteen pharmacies started dispensing marijuana on Wednesday, Almost 5,000 people have signed up to a national registry to be able to buy marijuana legally. They will be able to buy up to 10g...

Legal sales of marijuana for recreational purposes are set to begin next week in Uruguay at a limited number of pharmacies to nearly 5,000 people who have registered as consumers. The South American nation's Cannabis Regulation and Control Institute said Friday in a statement that pot will be...

Pharmacies in Chile's capital, Santiago, will start selling cannabis-based medicines this week, the first time such treatments have been offered by drugstores in Latin America, the companies behind the launch said Wednesday. Canadian cannabis producer and distributor Tilray said it had...

On the outskirts of Libertad, a small town an hour's drive from Montevideo, barbed wire and guard towers surround a ten-hectare plot of state-owned land. Inside, greenhouses shelter thousands of marijuana plants. These belong to ICC and Simbiosys, the two firms licensed by Uruguay's government...

Uruguay is beginning to register people who want to legally buy marijuana at pharmacies as part of the world's first government-regulated national marketplace for pot. Authorities announced the registry's launch Tuesday. Uruguay legalized the cultivation and sale of marijuana in 2013. The law...

Uruguay: Uruguay, which in July will become the first country selling state-produced cannabis in pharmacies for recreational use, will open a user registry on Tuesday, authorities said. Any Uruguayan or permanent resident wishing to purchase cannabis in that way will be required to register...

In December 2013, the Uruguayan Chamber of Senators approved Law 19.172, through which the General Assembly regulated the production, marketing and possession of marijuana in Uruguay. According to the Scientific Advisory Committee for Monitoring and Evaluation of the Policy for the Regulation...

Uruguay will finally be creating a registry for consumers who want to buy marijuana in pharmacies. The government reported the amount of marijuana that is produced for sale in pharmacies is enough for distribution; however, according to experts and surveys of domestic consumers, it won't...

Uruguay will finally be creating a registry for consumers who want to buy marijuana in pharmacies. The government reported the amount of marijuana that is produced for sale in pharmacies is enough for distribution; however, according to experts and surveys of domestic consumers, it won't...

Uruguay was the first country in the world to fully legalize the production, sale and use of marijuana, but the legal market has suffered growing pains. Uruguay announced earlier this month that legal marijuana would soon be available for sale at registered pharmacies, but only a small number...

In December 2013, Uruguay became the first country to legalize cannabis for recreational use.[1] This movement was supported by former President José Pepe Mujica in an effort to regularize "a clandestine market."[2] Mujica argued that legalization "is a measure against...drug [dealers]." "We...

Montevideo, Uruguay — Rossana Rilla could sell marijuana under Uruguay's pioneering law that lets pharmacies distribute pot. But she says there is no way she will. In her 28 years as a pharmacist, she has been beaten, dragged across the floor and threatened by thieves at gunpoint and with a...

Montevideo, Uruguay — Rossana Rilla could sell marijuana under Uruguay's pioneering law that lets pharmacies distribute pot. But she says there is no way she will. In her 28 years as a pharmacist, she has been beaten, dragged across the floor and threatened by thieves at gunpoint and with a...

State Rep. Tanner Magee has filed a bill that would remove the 10-pharmacy limit placed on medical marijuana pharmacies that area allowed to dispense the drug to patients throughout the state. The bill appears aimed at quelling concerns raised on March 30, when the bill was up for debate on...

In March, Croatian pharmacies are expected to finally start selling capsules of cannabis oil. The final price for end customers has not yet been defined, and it will depend on pharmacy profit margins, but it will certainly be much lower than the price on the illegal market. According to sources...