Last December, the Uruguayan government passed a groundbreaking law that made it the first country in the world to legalize recreational marijuana use, and on Friday, after four months of hammering out the details, Uruguay President Jose Mujica announced the stipulations of the law that will go into effect May 6.
As marijuana prices have plummeted in the last five years, in part because of decriminalization in some states of the U.S., Mexican drug farmers in the remote valleys of the northern Sierra Madre have began to harvest opium poppies instead and distribute cheap $4 heroin to many rural areas in America.
