Four men have been found guilty of smuggling £4.5 million worth of cannabis hidden in sacks of Gari powder from Ghana to south Essex. The drugs haul was discovered by border force officers inside a shipping container at Tilbury Docks following a National Crime Agency sting. Daniel Yeboah, 54, Kristoffen Baidoo, 48, Kwaku Bonsu, 52, […]
A former Chief Executive Officer of the Mental Health Authority (MHA), Professor Akwasi Osei has urged the government to hasten slowly on the legal cultivation of cannabis in large quantities. To him, if care is not taken, people will cultivate the dangerous cannabis along side the one needed for medicinal purposes due to lack of […]
The Narcotics Control Commission has reminded all that the use of cannabis is illegal and a criminal offence in the country in spite of Ghana having joined a few other countries to allow for the cultivation of the substance, also known as weed, for medicinal purposes. The commission has, however, received applications from many groups, […]
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 […]
