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Uruguay has the first country in the world to the marijuana trade, from the drug’s production to its distribution. This it is the only nation where the government total control of the commercialisation of marijuana (also known as cannabis). Uruguay's President Jose Mujica said his goal is to and the activities of drug traffickers and possibly them out of business altogether. He that his legalisation, together with the close monitoring of marijuana sales by the state, will dependence on the drug and drug-related crime. Mr Mujica said he was well aware that the new legislation was "an experiment," which had no guarantee of successful.

The legalisation has foul of an international treaty on drug control. Uruguay is a signatory to the 1961 Convention on Narcotic Drugs. The Convention the use of cannabis "to medical and scientific purposes". The president of the International Narcotics Control Board, Raymond Yans, said he was "surprised" that Uruguay had "knowingly to the universally agreed and internationally endorsed legal provisions of the treaty". He the move could , saying: "It will not young people, but rather have the perverse effect of early experimentation, the age of first use, and thus to…earlier onset of addiction and other disorders."