In the run-up to the legislative elections, Tomás Rebord’s Dominbord cycle in BLENDER brought together an important political panel: Florencio Randazzo, Fernando Gray, Martín Lousteau, Daniel Lipovetzky, Estefanía Pozzo and Esteban Paulón. The program, focused on analyzing campaign strategies, ended up becoming the scene of one of the most talked about moments of the night. Lipovetzky, former national representative for Together for Change, took out a bottle of medical marijuana and gave it to Rebord live. The gesture, between the comical and the provocative, unleashed laughter, applause and a debate that quickly went viral.
As is tradition at Dominbord, guests brought symbolic gifts. Among them, the Peronachos stood out, some choripán-flavored nachos made by Saludables SRL, from Haedo. The product, which has icons of Peronism on its packaging, was born as a joke between its owner and his radical father and ended up being a network phenomenon. In the midst of a recession, he managed to recover sales and maintain jobs.
The real impact came with Lipovetzky. Known for having promoted the controversial Rental Law (No. 27,551, 2020), which sought to protect tenants with three-year contracts and increases regulated by the Rental Contract Index, the former deputy assumed in 2023 that the rule had been “a mistake.” The changes introduced in the Senate and the inflationary context reduced supply and increased prices.
But his television appearance had another axis. “I brought you a gift, Tomás: a jar of devil’s lettuce. “It’s from a friend, of the best quality,” he said, showing the bottle on camera. The marijuana came from a grower registered with REPROCANN, the official registry that allows self-cultivation and medicinal use of cannabis regulated by Law 27,350.
Lipovetzky closed with a phrase that ignited the debate: “It is good to discuss legalization, as Uruguay did.” The neighboring country, a pioneer in regulating recreational consumption in 2013 under the presidency of José Mujica, managed to reduce the black market and collect millions in taxes, although it still faces limitations in state supply.
