Ghana moves to decriminalize marijuana use

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Kofi Annan 9 years ago

wise decision, I must attest

wise decision, I must attest
ghselasi 9 years ago

Yeah some people be talking about it yet they haven't even researched abt it thus the usual Ghanaian and Nigeria movie stereotype thinking. Tell them, the is only one truth and it always stands

Yeah some people be talking about it yet they haven't even researched abt it thus the usual Ghanaian and Nigeria movie stereotype thinking. Tell them, the is only one truth and it always stands
PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33) 9 years ago

AUTHOR : TIMBUKTU - - - - - - WHY DO I WANT NANA TO WIN? UNLIKE KUFFOUR WHO JAILED ONLY 6 HIGH PROFILE NDC THIEVES , NANA HAS THE BALLS TO JAIL ALL THESE NDC CRIMINAL MOTHER-FUCKERS! Things are improving FAST in Tanzania, Nig ...
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AUTHOR : TIMBUKTU - - - - - - WHY DO I WANT NANA TO WIN? UNLIKE KUFFOUR WHO JAILED ONLY 6 HIGH PROFILE NDC THIEVES , NANA HAS THE BALLS TO JAIL ALL THESE NDC CRIMINAL MOTHER-FUCKERS! Things are improving FAST in Tanzania, Nigeria, Rwanda, Ivory Coast, etc, because they now have no-nonsense, incorruptible presidents who are determined to improve the socio-economic statuses of their respective countries. Ghana too MUST change for the better. Ghana NEEDS Akuffo Addo!
Prof H 9 years ago

IF GHANA HAS AN ISLAND...PLEASE ALLOW THE ADDICTS TO MIGRATE THERE AND DR. KOFI ANNAN SHOULD BE MADE THE MAYOR TO RUN THAT ISLAND KEEP IN MIND THEY SURVIVE ON THEIR ECONOMY I.E TILL THE LAND ETC

IF GHANA HAS AN ISLAND...PLEASE ALLOW THE ADDICTS TO MIGRATE THERE AND DR. KOFI ANNAN SHOULD BE MADE THE MAYOR TO RUN THAT ISLAND KEEP IN MIND THEY SURVIVE ON THEIR ECONOMY I.E TILL THE LAND ETC
William 9 years ago

I had a good laugh, thanks!!!

I had a good laugh, thanks!!!
GHANA FIRST 9 years ago

This move is a deception by evil forces working against Ghana ever since Christianity took a a charismatic turn to save Ghana's youth from total destruction. Now that thing are better with our youth and many of them are follo ...
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This move is a deception by evil forces working against Ghana ever since Christianity took a a charismatic turn to save Ghana's youth from total destruction. Now that thing are better with our youth and many of them are following Christ in hundreds of churches all over the country, the devil is bringing this lie that marijuana should be decriminalized? It will not happen in Ghana. It will not happen and I won't given reasons why? If our politicians force this bill, believe me Ghana will be destroyed beyond the countries at war now and those which have been destroyed by war. Do you know what narcotics can do to society and what power is behind narcotics? Ghana, do not joke with this matter. The consequence is too unbearable for our future generation. STOP THIS JOKE NOW, IT IS A DECEPTION FROM FORCES OF HELL.
Concerned 9 years ago

You are a pharisee.When others are talking about helping people with drug problems you are rather talking about destroying their lives and using Christianity to justify it.
Have you ever smoked before? What exactly are th ...
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You are a pharisee.When others are talking about helping people with drug problems you are rather talking about destroying their lives and using Christianity to justify it.
Have you ever smoked before? What exactly are the effects of smoking? How do you know about the effects other than your paranoid assumptions
anas larry 9 years ago

They are decriminalizing it and not making it lawful to possess or use.
It doesn't take sense to send some one behind bars for using narcotic drugs but rather to a healthy facility.
For your information alcohol and ciggaret ...
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They are decriminalizing it and not making it lawful to possess or use.
It doesn't take sense to send some one behind bars for using narcotic drugs but rather to a healthy facility.
For your information alcohol and ciggarette intake are doing more harm to our youth than marijuana will.
Let's treat it as a healthy problem.
Ekow Graham 9 years ago

Ivor Greestreet advocated for that. That is why CPP is going to get 0%

Ivor Greestreet advocated for that. That is why CPP is going to get 0%
He who isn't named 9 years ago

Your entire comment is like the existence of ISIS. Bad in every way. There is no helping you. We claim that leadership of the country is the problem. It's citizens like you, who are abundant in nature that are the problem. An ...
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Your entire comment is like the existence of ISIS. Bad in every way. There is no helping you. We claim that leadership of the country is the problem. It's citizens like you, who are abundant in nature that are the problem. Anyone that read your comment lost a few IQ points. You have made yourself and everyone stupider, and may God have mercy on your soul

Andrea 9 years ago

You don't know what you are talking about.
Marijuana was made illegal just for the interests of oil and pharmaceutical oligarchs. This is the evil a christian should fight, not a man relaxing himself after an hard day of wor ...
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You don't know what you are talking about.
Marijuana was made illegal just for the interests of oil and pharmaceutical oligarchs. This is the evil a christian should fight, not a man relaxing himself after an hard day of work.
Shame on you.
Andrea 9 years ago

@ GHANA FIRST

My comment was obviously adressed to GHANA FIRST

@ GHANA FIRST

My comment was obviously adressed to GHANA FIRST
Ask 9 years ago

You Are The Biggest Fool On Earth

You Are The Biggest Fool On Earth
Richman 9 years ago

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URSULA OWUSU 9 years ago

It will then be in order to increase the staff at out psychiatric hospitals across the country.

It will then be in order to increase the staff at out psychiatric hospitals across the country.
Dan'boko 9 years ago

Hallelujah! Jump Nayabinghi!!!!! Herb is a healing of the nation

Hallelujah! Jump Nayabinghi!!!!! Herb is a healing of the nation
Fredo 9 years ago

Wee has no side effect it depends on how it is used.Jah created herb for the healing of the nation.Sometimes I think most people lack research on matters relating to marijuana.They jux hold on to their first indoctrination of ...
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Wee has no side effect it depends on how it is used.Jah created herb for the healing of the nation.Sometimes I think most people lack research on matters relating to marijuana.They jux hold on to their first indoctrination of the herb and that is all.Society is evil
oppong london 9 years ago

decriminalize wee and half of the population will be mad within 5 years,people are already insane in the country due to poverty and too much thinking,so adding wee to it will be fine.

decriminalize wee and half of the population will be mad within 5 years,people are already insane in the country due to poverty and too much thinking,so adding wee to it will be fine.
He who isn't named 9 years ago

Please refrain from any further comments. Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is detrimental. Don't kill the brain cells of any more readers by way of your ignorance

Please refrain from any further comments. Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is detrimental. Don't kill the brain cells of any more readers by way of your ignorance
kwabena boadu 9 years ago

I'm sorry oppong you're a fool. Have you done any research about its medicinal values? In a recent report, President Jimmy Carter escaped death from cancer due to marijuana used as a therapy. You don't do any research just ea ...
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I'm sorry oppong you're a fool. Have you done any research about its medicinal values? In a recent report, President Jimmy Carter escaped death from cancer due to marijuana used as a therapy. You don't do any research just eat and read your stupid brainwashing bible

asamoah 9 years ago

yes yes yes!!! about time too. this business of criminalising people for possessing and smoking wee which is less dangerous than alcohol makes no sense. hurray for common sense.

yes yes yes!!! about time too. this business of criminalising people for possessing and smoking wee which is less dangerous than alcohol makes no sense. hurray for common sense.
Kwame 9 years ago

This is a wrong move...

This is a wrong move...
He who isn't named 9 years ago

It's amazing.
Alcohol - Drunk drivers, road accidents, domestic abuse, alcohol poisoning, liver failure
Cigarette - lung cancer, thyroid cancer, deviated septum etc
Weed - Munchies, sleepiness, uncontrolled laughter, pain ...
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It's amazing.
Alcohol - Drunk drivers, road accidents, domestic abuse, alcohol poisoning, liver failure
Cigarette - lung cancer, thyroid cancer, deviated septum etc
Weed - Munchies, sleepiness, uncontrolled laughter, pain relief (some cases)
And yet, alcohol and cigarettes - legal
Weed - Illegal
momo 9 years ago

marijuana is not good for the mind and that is a serious thing . you cannot drive yourself or move forward in your life . you think you are doing smth better but always finding yourslf in the same situation. study someone wh ...
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marijuana is not good for the mind and that is a serious thing . you cannot drive yourself or move forward in your life . you think you are doing smth better but always finding yourslf in the same situation. study someone who is hooked to it a "star" but to himself he thinks he lack something to be honest to himself.
Concerned 9 years ago

Even if everything you are saying is true, how does putting someone in jail for smoking help

Even if everything you are saying is true, how does putting someone in jail for smoking help
STEVEV 9 years ago

HAHAHAHAHA !!LETS SEE WHAT WILL HAPPENED TO SMOKERS . I DON'T SMOKE SO I DON'T CARE

HAHAHAHAHA !!LETS SEE WHAT WILL HAPPENED TO SMOKERS . I DON'T SMOKE SO I DON'T CARE
Gabi 9 years ago

The western slave master's Christianity has done more harm in our society than marijuana...all de great thinkers and philosophers from the beginning of creation new about de medicinal, spiritual and psychological use of marij ...
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The western slave master's Christianity has done more harm in our society than marijuana...all de great thinkers and philosophers from the beginning of creation new about de medicinal, spiritual and psychological use of marijuana....Legalize the healing of de Nations....for the benifit of all humanity
ghselasi 9 years ago

No be small brainwashing o

No be small brainwashing o
Osei 9 years ago

Truth

Truth
Alo koti 9 years ago

It will limit the use of ather degerouse drug like cocaine n etc...cos smoking weed is the best..I waste more money to smoke cocaine than to smoke weed.n it saves more money to my family..thus my personnel life...

It will limit the use of ather degerouse drug like cocaine n etc...cos smoking weed is the best..I waste more money to smoke cocaine than to smoke weed.n it saves more money to my family..thus my personnel life...

tall 9 years ago

Ghana can make money out of it.

Ghana can make money out of it.
Prof H 9 years ago

EVIL FORCES PUSHING FOR ALLOWING MARIJUANA USE AND LATER COCAINE USE...GO TO TUDU IN ACCRA AND NIMA BEHIND TANKO FOREX BUREAU AND SEE WHAT DRUG USE IS DOING TO OUR PEOPLE.

EVIL FORCES PUSHING FOR ALLOWING MARIJUANA USE AND LATER COCAINE USE...GO TO TUDU IN ACCRA AND NIMA BEHIND TANKO FOREX BUREAU AND SEE WHAT DRUG USE IS DOING TO OUR PEOPLE.
He who isn't named 9 years ago

Why don't you fight to have alcohol criminalized as well. Drunk drivers have killed more people than weed smokers. Alcohol poisoning had killed more people than mono oxide poisoning. Alcohol is a greatest cause of domestic ab ...
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Why don't you fight to have alcohol criminalized as well. Drunk drivers have killed more people than weed smokers. Alcohol poisoning had killed more people than mono oxide poisoning. Alcohol is a greatest cause of domestic abuse. So do us all a favor and stop talking out of your ass
KWABENA 9 years ago

NANA ADDO JUBILATING

NANA ADDO JUBILATING
Abonsam Fireman 9 years ago

He can smoke in his dream Flagstaff house! (in his dreams)!

He can smoke in his dream Flagstaff house! (in his dreams)!
Rude bwoy 9 years ago

Wow after hunting them for 8yrs .
8 month before election you've realise to decriminalize them.
Ndc's do you think you can fool them again for vote ?

Wow after hunting them for 8yrs .
8 month before election you've realise to decriminalize them.
Ndc's do you think you can fool them again for vote ?
kojoasiedu 9 years ago

Black Rasta raised this in parliament n no step was taken to legalise it. why now? Does it hv to be Kofi Annan . If the country has taken regious stance towards its legallisation so be it. who knows whats next.. The country ...
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Black Rasta raised this in parliament n no step was taken to legalise it. why now? Does it hv to be Kofi Annan . If the country has taken regious stance towards its legallisation so be it. who knows whats next.. The country will b waiting another dignitary's view on homosexuality n bum bum bum .LEGALISED.
SHAKIMALI 9 years ago

LET JAH ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTETED

LET JAH ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTETED
JH. New York 9 years ago

If only "1out of 18 people suffering from drug related Sicknesses get treatment", is the Statistics encouraging to decriminalize Wee,if the Weed is a drug!.When the former UN boss,Kofi Annan proposed decriminalization of t ...
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If only "1out of 18 people suffering from drug related Sicknesses get treatment", is the Statistics encouraging to decriminalize Wee,if the Weed is a drug!.When the former UN boss,Kofi Annan proposed decriminalization of the Weed,the question which comes to mind is:how many Psychiatrists Specialist did he consult to seek their professional or Scientific opinion, and Statistics of drug related Sicknesses to back his Claims. One is short of words to hear this from no other person than a high profile Diplomat like Kofi Annan.Only Wee Smokers and those who have reasons to gain financially,would support this proposal.It's not for nothing that marijuana, despite the claims, mainly by addicts of its medicinal use were Suppressed by well meaning leaders, World Wide.The fact that some Countries have decriminalize its use does not chankge its potential to cause havoc,to mankind,if it's suppression or controll is relaxed.The dangers to Society of its free use cannot be overlooked.I think the present conservative Suppression is in Order for those who have interest to Smoke to do so in their privacy. Why should marijuana use be decriminalized just b'cos advocates somewhere envision to make lot of money and or are Smokers themselves. In Ghana ask those 2 up and coming young Artiste(musicians) what motivated them(excuse myword) for one to touch or feel the Virgina of a lady on Stage,and the other one in Court, to exposed (take out) his Penis on Stage,in anticipation to penetrate the lady dancer.Is that the kind of World we want to leave our Children or great grand Children! Ask the 2,if they were not hooked on drugs that night, and come back to have an arguement with me.I think Civil Society would prefer a World that people show traces of decency which only Sanity of the people Can guarantee,to a World of majority disgusting Weed Crazed attitudes.Look before you leap, Ghana!.
Mensah 9 years ago

Did the gov't want to increase the number of mad people in the country?

Did the gov't want to increase the number of mad people in the country?
Joe 9 years ago

So no mention of Blakk Rasta who started all this? Sad. Ghana is sooooo negative! Long live the Kuchoko Mugabe.

So no mention of Blakk Rasta who started all this? Sad. Ghana is sooooo negative! Long live the Kuchoko Mugabe.
adams njeje 9 years ago

arresting marijuana addicts isnt helping them make it legal let them smoke itd better than cagars nd ciggarates

arresting marijuana addicts isnt helping them make it legal let them smoke itd better than cagars nd ciggarates

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