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Chile allows medical marijuana use: One woman's story

By Take Two Staff
Published Nov 4, 2014
Caption:A cannabis plant is seen in a house of Montevideo on April 25, 2014. In last December, Uruguay became the first country in the world to regulate the market of sales of cannabis and its derivatives in an plan considered a bold experiment by authorities frustrated with losing resources to fighting drug trafficking. The law authorizes the production, distribution and sale of cannabis, allows individuals aged 18 and older to grow their own on a small scale, and creates consumer clubs -- all under state supervision and control. Legalization of marijuana in the small country of just 3.2 million inhabitants has also drawn the interest of pharmaceutical companies around the world, who want to buy the drug for medical uses. AFP PHOTO/Pablo PORCIUNCULA (Photo credit should read PABLO PORCIUNCULA/AFP/Getty Images)
A cannabis plant is seen in a house of Montevideo on April 25, 2014. In last December, Uruguay became the first country in the world to regulate the market of sales of cannabis and its derivatives in an plan considered a bold experiment by authorities frustrated with losing resources to fighting drug trafficking.
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Pablo Porciuncula/AFP/Getty Images
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Chile allows medical marijuana use: One woman's story

Voters in several states are deciding marijuana initiatives Tuesday.

In Alaska and Oregon there are measures that would legalize recreational use.

And if Florida voters approve Amendment 21, it will become the 24th state to allow medical marijuana.

This movement to end restrictions on pot isn't limited to the U.S. In Uruguay, marijuana sale and possession is legal.

And Chile is now allowing cultivation for medical use. It's also allowed a Chilean woman, who is terminally ill, to import a cannabis-based medicine from Europe.

The BBC's Gideon Long has this report.