Ghana has legalised the use of cannabis for health and industrial purposes. This is after Parliament passed the Narcotics Control Commission Bill, 2019 on Friday (March 20, 2020).
The new law empowers the Minister for Interior to grant licences for the cultivation of cannabis of not more than 0.3 percent THC, the main psychoactive compound in cannabis that gives the users a high sensation, for industrial and medicinal purposes.
The law also makes the country’s Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) a Commission with enhanced powers to oversee the industrial use of some narcotic substances.
The Commission, however, will still have the mandate to control and eliminate the trafficking of prohibited narcotic drugs to ensure public safety.
Punishment for the cannabis-related offences has also been stiffened, according to a source on the Defence and Interior Committee of Parliament.
With the legalization of Cannabis for industrial and health purposes, Ghana joins countries like Malawi, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Lesotho, and South Africa are among counties that have decriminalised medicinal cannabis use.
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@Humanist. Who and what are the Church ??. African are where we are today, because we allowed the Church to blind us. We need to encourage the cultivation of the Plant, for Export, and make sure Gold Mining stop instantly to save our Water or River Bodies. Come to Europe and see civilization and infrastructures. In Africa, all we know and think is Church, Church Primitive thinking. If I am to be the President of Ghana, I will wipe all the Churches out. To bring back the God of our Ancestors
THis satanic politicians must be voted out. They want to use the coronavirus distraction to pursue their devilish agenda. Their main plan is to through legalisation of weed, infest the youth with vices and so usher in poverty and high crime rates and eventually occultism. The church will resist
Best thing ever done in Ghana Congratulation.
AHHHH...MORE FIRE!!! JAH!! RASTAFARI!!!
Good news
We are dead,,,YAWU.....WEE PAAH?