According to Yahoo News: [caption id="attachment_8361" align="alignright" width="300"] Tabare Vazquez[/caption] Tabare Vazquez, who served as president of Uruguay from 2005-2010, easily won Uruguay’s presidential election against rival, center-right candidate Luis Lacalle Pou, returning to power a left-leaning coalition that has helped legalize gay marriage and moved to create the world’s first state-run marijuana marketplace. The runoff vote counted Vazquez to have 53 percent in support of his reelection.…

According to Vox, just before U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder reported his resignation from the Justice Department, he stated in an interview with Yahoo News that it’s time to reconsider whether marijuana should be a Schedule I substance treated similarly to heroin. [caption id="attachment_8123" align="alignright" width="220"] Eric Holder[/caption] “I think it’s certainly a question that we need to ask ourselves—whether or not marijuana is as serious a drug as in heroin,” Holder said. “The question…