Musician, Kwaw Kese
Award-winning Ghanaian rapper, Kwaw Kese has urged Ghanaian leaders to consider making cannabis (marijuana) one of the biggest cash crops for the nation since it has lost all avenues of making money.
Abordam who was arrested for unlawful possession of weed years ago seems to have repented from his ways but has learnt a much more effective way of making the herbs useful to mankind.
With the economy of the country in a dire state, the Dondo hit maker believes cannabis is one of the avenues Ghana can generate lots of revenue from. He stressed that in a century where other countries are milking money out of cannabis, Ghana is still used to archaic laws, which has bedevilled the country to become poor.
“Ghanaians are still growing, we will reach the age where we will know that cannabis is an important cash crop. Right now, cannabis is fetching people billions and trillions of dollars in the other parts of the world,” he said in an interview monitored by Ghanaweb.com on Joy FM.
He added, “We are begging people for money and burning our acres of cannabis farms. The thing is illegal in the law but laws can always be amended because it is human being who make laws. A law in 1920 or 1830 cannot be a law in 2019 and 2020, that law is gone, it was a law to protect his era.”
Kwaw Kese cited that whiles there are a few flaws in the usage of marijuana, it is a better medicine that is swift in curing numerous diseases. He also advised authorities to desist from burning marijuana farms because it’s a long term financial investment.
“In this era, this same thing is a medicine that people are spending billions of dollars that we don’t have on and we have the land, the resources to grow this thing better and make money out of it.”
Asked if the Ghanaian authorities would be able to control the use of weed when legalized, he said, who said we can’t control it, don’t we control water.
