Uruguay's President I earn more than i need.

The man described as the world's ' poorest
president' discusses Uruguay' s move to legalise
marijuana .
President Jose Mujica , the world's ' poorest'
president, has surprised the world by making
Uruguay the first country to entirely legalise
marijuana .
A law already passed in the lower house of
Congress and expected to pass in the Senate
later this year would make Uruguay the first
country in the world to license and enforce rules
for the production, distribution and sale of
marijuana for adult consumers .
Uruguay is hoping to act as a potential test case
for an idea slowly gaining steam across Latin
America - that the legalisation and regulation of
some drugs could combat the cartel violence
devastating much of the region.
The thing is I have a way of life that I don't
change just because I am a president. I earn
more than I need , even if it 's not enough for
others .
President Jose Mujica
Mujica 's recent speech to the UN General
Assembly denouncing excess and frivolity, also
received global attention:
" We have sacrificed the old immaterial Gods , and
now we are occupying the temple of the Market -
God. He organises our economy , our politics, our
habits , our lives and even provides us with rates
and credit cards and gives us the appearance of
happiness ," he said.
" It seems that we have been born only to
consume , and to consume , and when we can no
longer consume , we have a feeling of frustration
and we suffer from poverty, and we are auto
marginalised. "
He may look like a working class grandfather , but
78- year-old Mujica is a man with a powerful
message , a leader who is a one of a kind .
Also known as Pepe Mujica , he refused to move to
the luxurious house the Uruguayan state provides
for its leaders, and chose instead to stay in the
modest home he shares with his senator wife in
the capital .
His lifestyle and the fact that he donates 90
percent of his salary to charity has earned him
the label 'the poorest president in the world'.
" Those who describe me so are the poor ones ," he
says. " My definition of poor are those who need
too much. Because those who need too much are
never satisfied . "
Mujica is a man who practices the simplicity he
preaches and never minces words, a style some of
his countrymen criticise as unpresidential, but
which makes him a hero to others .
On this episode of Talk to Al Jazeera, President
Jose Mujica discusses his peculiar approach
towards marijuana and drug trafficking , his
particular way of living and understanding life ,
and the repercussions the country' s new policies,