It’s been a long time coming for Uruguay.

After a protracted three-year process, Uruguay has announced adult-use marijuana sales will begin at authorized pharmacies by July.

The first country in the world to legalize adult-use marijuana back in December 2013, Uruguay’s government has sanctioned 16 pharmacies to begin selling cannabis to residents over 18 “sometime in the first two weeks of July,” according to presidential aide Juan Andres Roballo.

No longer profitable for black market dealers, Uruguay’s consumers will need to sign up for the national registry in order to legally access their monthly allotment of 1.4 ounces of cannabis. Initially sold in 5-gram increments for $1.30 per gram, it’s anticipated the registry will be up and running by May 2, 2017.

Providing assurances, Roballo claimed Uruguay’s government-grown weed would be “every bit” as chronic as that sold by dealers:

Buyers will have complete certainty about the quality of the product they are consuming, and so the risks will diminish considerably.

While Uruguay’s residents will be allowed to cultivate their own weed at home or within a cannabis cultivation cooperative, the tiny South American country’s legal marijuana will not be accessible for tourists or globetrotting strain hunters.

Initially germinating the idea of legalization in 2012, President José “Pepe” Mujica announced his plan to legalize adult-use sales as a means of stripping the local drug cartels of one of their most valuable resources – illegal marijuana.

Congratulations Uruguay, enjoy your newfound freedom and reduced crime rates.