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Ghana Legalizes Cannabis For Medicinal And Industrial Use by ashybabs(m): 6:15pm On Mar 28, 2020 |
Ghana has legalized the use of cannabis for health and industrial purposes as it joins other African countries hoping to derive economic and health benefits from the substance. On Friday the country’s Parliament passed into law the Narcotics Control Commission Bill, 2019. The law now 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 have the mandate to control and eliminate the trafficking of prohibited narcotic drugs to ensure public safety. Health experts have always campaigned for addicts of narcotic drugs to be properly rehabilitated and not treated as criminals. The new law makes provision for that as well now classifying drug abuse a public health issue. With the legalization of Cannabis for industrial and health purposes, Ghana joins countries like Malawi, Zimbabwe and South Africa who are changing their laws on narcotics. Ghana’s new laws will make room for cannabis to be used to make medicines and hemp fibres. The health ministry of Ghana now has the power to issue out licenses for the health and industrial use of the plant. Hemp fibres are used to make clothes, biofuel, paper and other products. Ghana is hoping to rake in some revenue as well when industrial production of cannabis begins. Industrial deals already signed In Ghana there is already the Hemp Association of Ghana (HAG) which has signed a deal with a Ghanaian-owned Cannabis business operator based in Portugal. The deal will gross a staggering $ 56 million in five years from merely cultivating and exporting industrial hemp from a land size approximating 100 acres. It will rake in around $2.8 million per harvest of HAG’s industrial hemp on the planned 100 acres. Taxes to the Ghanaian government could gross over $ 10 million from just 100 acres of industrial hemp if the authorities evaluate the industrial potential of the plant taking the world by storm currently. President of the Hemp Association of Ghana Nana Kwaku Agyemang told Africa Feeds that “We seem to get lost in this issue of getting high, and all we can talk about as Ghanaians is smoking. As President of the Hemp association of Ghana, we are not promoting smoking, we are promoting industry, we are promoting cleaning up the environment, we are promoting creating a new revenue stream for government in terms of taxing from cultivation and export and we are taking about promoting medicines that are far better than opioids, medicines that cannot kill you because no one has died from taking cannabis.” Cannabis Sativa is used for over 50,000 industrial uses, including being used as a cheaper alternative to cotton, paper car dashboards, and building houses and for medicinal purposes. The Global Cannabis market is estimated currently at over US$ 100 billion and estimate for the next five years peg the market size at a staggering $ 300 billion. should Nigeria take a cue from this 1 Like
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Re: Ghana Legalizes Cannabis For Medicinal And Industrial Use by IceLip: 6:16pm On Mar 28, 2020 |
Set awon Marlians 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Ghana Legalizes Cannabis For Medicinal And Industrial Use by dawnomike(m): 6:19pm On Mar 28, 2020 |
Legalizing Cannabis for an African man is legalizing madness... |
Re: Ghana Legalizes Cannabis For Medicinal And Industrial Use by kestolove95(m): 6:20pm On Mar 28, 2020 |
Congratulations Ghanaians 2 Likes |
Re: Ghana Legalizes Cannabis For Medicinal And Industrial Use by ashybabs(m): 6:23pm On Mar 28, 2020 |
dawnomike:I know you're conservative but there's opportunity in this... our mindset needs to change about the wisdom plant 1 Like |
Re: Ghana Legalizes Cannabis For Medicinal And Industrial Use by Aammee77: 6:28pm On Mar 28, 2020 |
Nice one. Country with leaders that have sense In weed we trust! Don't abuse it though If e no good for your head quit It's not for everybody 2 Likes |
Re: Ghana Legalizes Cannabis For Medicinal And Industrial Use by dawnomike(m): 7:09pm On Mar 28, 2020 |
ashybabs:Well, you might just be right... but I'm still skeptical though 1 Like |
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