José Mujica - On Legal Pot in Uruguay, the Drug War lyrics

I don't defend it, I wish it didn't exist. No addiction is good. We are regulating a market that already exists. We can't close our eyes to it. Repression has failed. We are asking the world to help us with this experience, which will allow the adoption of a social and political experiment to face a serious problem - drug trafficking. The effects of drug trafficking are worse than those of the d** themselves. There's always going to be pressure. There's an apparatus in the world that lives by repressing, and it costs a lot of money. We proposed the bill because of Uruguay's traditions. From 1914, 1915 to the 60s, alcohol was monopolized by the government. We produced and sold our own grapa, cachaça and rum for over 50 years. It was for a greater good and the money went to public health care. That's what we are doing now.