Traffickers of antibiotics 

Today, in Brazil, it is easier to buy marijuana than antibiotic.

 To buy antibiotic takes time, need to check medical consultation, must be of legal age and responsible for their actions, sometimes has retained revenue record of everything.

 As for buying marijuana is just out on the street, look both ways and find someone who has way you know where is.

 Antibiotic is sold only in authorized locations, subject to supervision and tax payers.

 Marijuana is sold anywhere - at the school gate, inside the school, police station, within the chain, on any street in any neighborhood in any city. 

Will no longer be so in Uruguay. 

From next year, our neighbor to the south, there will be rules in the marijuana trade.

 Minors may not buy, as can here in Brazil.

 Unlike here, there patients brutal diseases like cancer, AIDS, multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune thousand, psychiatric and degenerative ailments, and who use marijuana to treat, will be assured of a clean and reliable remedy. 

The government can observe the consequences of the use, to develop public health policy and education, instead of stupidly refusing to control the market, as it does in Brazil. 

Uruguay took the head of the hole and decided to deal with the issue. 

This is the most important in relation to the approval of the new policy Regulación Responsable which has just been approved by the Uruguayan Senate. 

If the system will work well or not, it is too early to know. 

Has many ways as a complex project like this can go wrong. But I have some certainties: 

1 The world will not end.

 Almost nobody will pass to smoke marijuana just because it was legalized. 

All the research shows that the prohibition does not prevent the use - only worsens the consequences of it. It may even be that the number of users increase 1% or 2%, or 5%, go there, but who does not like marijuana does not want to prove - and those who like longer has access. In this respect, very little will change. 

2 Thousands of people will benefit from access to a remedy of better quality or safer recreational substance that causes less dependence that do less harm. 

3 Traffickers will earn less money. And in our society, having less money is synonymous with having less power. 

4 The cannabis market will continue to exist, but will change hands, at least in part.

 And goes to more competent hands. 

Why even here in Brazil we think is a good idea to deliver a huge market and super-profitable for the worst kind of people? 

The change of the law in Uruguay is not the solution to all problems of the world, obviously. 

Violence and corruption still exist, some young people will continue to self-destructive behavior, death and disease are not eradicated. 

But the government there took the risk of an unpopular decision to actually try to solve the problem, instead of just pretending, as it does in Brazil, which has an expensive policy, which swells the state and does not generate any results. 

You need courage for that. 

Courage that our politicians do not have.