Uruguay says pot law won’t make it a drug haven

<p>MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) Uruguays government skeleton to start flourishing pot shortly after a law legalizing sales of a drug passes Congress, though a anathema on offered to foreigners will stop a republic apropos a drug tourism hot-spot, officials say.
The revolutionary supervision announced skeleton final week to legalize a marijuana market as partial of a expostulate to stop rising crime, arguing that a drug is reduction damaging than a black marketplace where it now trades.
The use of cannabis and other drugs is already authorised in Uruguay, one of Latin Americas safest countries and a explorer on magnanimous lawmaking. The remodel being sent to Congress would legalize and umpire a sale and production.
Meeting a smoking needs of a republic of 3.3 million people will need annual prolongation of about 29.8 tons, a supervision estimates, and a drug will be cultivated in a camp of roughly 100 hectares (247 acres).
It is no...