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Ghana Legalises Cannabis For Health And Industrial Purposes by fmcjunior(m): 7:19pm On Mar 21, 2020 |
Ghana has decriminalised the use of cannabis for health and
industrial purposes.
Parliament passed the Narcotics Control Commission Bill, 2019
on Friday evening.
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.
The new law also 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.
Punishment for the cannabis-related offences has also been
stiffened, according to a source on the Defence and Interior
Committee of Parliament.
Before this law was passed, Ghana’s Narcotic Drugs
(Control, Enforcement and Sanction) Act, 1990, PNDC Law
236, criminalised narcotic drugs such as cannabis and states
that anyone found in possession or importing a narcotic
substance “shall on conviction be liable to imprisonment for a
term of not less than 10 years.”
The manufacture, produce or distribution of such narcotics
also faced similar sanctions.
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that around
147 million people, or 2.5 percent of the world population,
consume cannabis.
On the African continent, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Zambia and
Lesotho, and South Africa are among counties that have
decriminalised medicinal cannabis use.
The economic potential of the medicinal and industrial cannabis
industry has been one of the main reasons for the change in
legislation in these countries.
In line with this, a Neuroscientist Drug Researcher at the
University of Columbia, Professor Carl Hart, urged Ghana to
consider legalising and regulating the drug so it could enjoy
its enormous benefits.
Other advocates for the legalisation and regulation of
cannabis consumption have been outspoken in their desire to
see the law changed.
A Former Executive Secretary of NACOB, Akrasi Sarpong,
has also long held that legalisation of some aspects of
cannabis consumption was inevitable.
Speaking to the BBC when he was head of NACOB in
2014, Mr Sarpong argued that “war” waged on
cannabis in the country stands to be lost because many
people believe “what you are fighting is not a crime.”
In 2019, the Rastafarian Council of Ghana threatened to
hold a march to demand the decriminalisation of cannabis.
But some health experts have warned against the legalisation
of cannabis in Ghana saying the health risks far outweigh
its financial benefits.
The Mental Health Authority also objected to the legalisation
of cannabis because of the threat of purported health
hazards users will be exposed to . |
Re: Ghana Legalises Cannabis For Health And Industrial Purposes by blunt(m): 1:38am On Mar 22, 2020 |
Pass me the spark
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Re: Ghana Legalises Cannabis For Health And Industrial Purposes by GRIMMJOE(m): 8:58am On Mar 22, 2020 |
Same with some African countries, I wonder what happens when they run out. |
Re: Ghana Legalises Cannabis For Health And Industrial Purposes by GRIMMJOE(m): 9:00am On Mar 22, 2020 |
fmcjunior:bro help modify my last post you quoted. |
Re: Ghana Legalises Cannabis For Health And Industrial Purposes by Nobody: 6:21pm On May 05, 2020 |
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Re: Ghana Legalises Cannabis For Health And Industrial Purposes by Nobody: 6:25pm On May 05, 2020 |
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Re: Ghana Legalises Cannabis For Health And Industrial Purposes by Josephmumu03: 9:53pm On May 05, 2020 |
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Re: Ghana Legalises Cannabis For Health And Industrial Purposes by Nobody: 7:01am On May 06, 2020 |
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