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ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, FEB. 16, 2014, AND THEREAFTER - FILE - In this Dec. 10, 2013 photo, people attend a demonstration in support of the legalization of marijuana outside the Congress in Montevideo, Uruguay. Uruguay's Senate approved the world's first national marketplace for legal marijuana. From the Americas to Europe to North Africa and beyond, the marijuana legalization movement has unprecedented traction, a nod to successful efforts in Colorado, Washington and the small South American nation of Uruguay, which became the first country to approve nationwide pot legalization. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico, File)
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ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, FEB. 16, 2014, AND THEREAFTER File- In this Dec. 10, 2013 file photo, legalization of marijuana activists gather outside the Congress building, as senators vote on a law to legalize the drug, in Montevideo, Uruguay. The activist are in support of the Washington and Colorado recreational laws that were passed 2012 to regulate the growth and sale of taxed pot at state-licensed stores. Sales began Jan. 1, 2014 in Colorado, and are due to start later this year in Washington. Twenty states and the District of Columbia also have medical marijuana laws. The. Uruguay's Senate gave final congressional approval Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013 to create the world's first national marketplace for legal marijuana, an audacious experiment that will have the government oversee production, sales and consumption of a drug illegal almost everywhere else. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico, File)
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ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, FEB. 16, 2014, AND THEREAFTER - FILE - In this July 31, 2013 file photo, a man smokes a marijuana joint, while Senators debate a bill at the Senate to legalize marijuana and regulate production and distribution in Montevideo, Uruguay. From the Americas to Europe to North Africa and beyond, the marijuana legalization movement has unprecedented traction, a nod to successful efforts in Colorado, Washington, and the small South American nation of Uruguay, which in Dec. 2013, became the first country to approve nationwide pot legalization. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico, File)
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ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, FEB. 16, 2014, AND THEREAFTER - FILE -This Dec. 10, 2013 file photo shows, activists smoking marijuana, as they pose for photos in front of the Congress in Montevideo, Uruguay. Uruguay's Senate approved the world's first national marketplace for legal marijuana. From the Americas to Europe to North Africa and beyond, the marijuana legalization movement has unprecedented traction, a nod to successful efforts in Colorado, Washington and the small South American nation of Uruguay, which became the first country to approve nationwide pot legalization. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico, File)
