Pubdate: Sat, 29 Mar 2014
Source: News-Item, The (PA)
Copyright: 2014 Associated Press
Contact:  http://www.newsitem.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/3556

URUGUAY TO TRACK POT BY MARKERS

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP)- Uruguay's drug czar says every legal 
marijuana plant in the country will be registered and tracked using 
radio frequency tags and genetic markers to make sure what's grown 
there stays there.

Julio Calzada has described the plans for Uruguay's government-run 
marijuana market in an interview with The Associated Press. He says 
the rules will be published next month and the first government-grown 
plants won't be ready until the end of the year. He says it will take 
that long to harvest genetically identical pot from cloned plants 
whose product can be identified as legal by the authorities.
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