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The Trucker 11 years ago

Excellent Piece Arthur K. Keep it up. You have summed it up very well. Many of our so-called opinion leaders are at their best when they ape the mistakes of the West.As you rightly pointed out the reent obsession with gay iss ...
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Excellent Piece Arthur K. Keep it up. You have summed it up very well. Many of our so-called opinion leaders are at their best when they ape the mistakes of the West.As you rightly pointed out the reent obsession with gay issues in the presence is one such example.Ghanaian leaders today need to LISTEN to what their own people are saying. WHAT ARE THE MAIN PREOCCUPATIONS OF THE AVERAGE GHANAIAN TODAY? THEY ARE CERTAINLY NOT OBSESSING ABOUT GAYS AND GAY RIGHTS. YES "WEE" MAY BE A GROWING PROBLEM IN GHANA BUT IS IT REALLY THE "NUMBER ONE PROBLEM" ON THE MINDS OF MOST GHANAIANS? I THINK NOT
Mimi 11 years ago

There's a good reason why marihuana continue to be classified as a controlled substance. Users will argue with you about it's many benefit but won't mention their potential effects. Mr. Sarpong is an irresponsible & clueless ...
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There's a good reason why marihuana continue to be classified as a controlled substance. Users will argue with you about it's many benefit but won't mention their potential effects. Mr. Sarpong is an irresponsible & clueless NACOB boss.
kk 11 years ago

how do u call a pharmacist who has risen to the highest position as an executive director of NACOB clueless?

how do u call a pharmacist who has risen to the highest position as an executive director of NACOB clueless?
SamuelsonX 11 years ago

I thought Pharmacists were trained to dispense medications rather than diagnose and prescribed medication. The NACOB Boss is clearly out of his depth. Dr Kennedy IS a Physician so perhaps better placed to offer an informed o ...
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I thought Pharmacists were trained to dispense medications rather than diagnose and prescribed medication. The NACOB Boss is clearly out of his depth. Dr Kennedy IS a Physician so perhaps better placed to offer an informed opinion. The NACOB boss should restrict himself to dispensing medications prescribed by Doctors.
ABIOLA 11 years ago

STUPID ARTICLE,

STUPID ARTICLE,
Agekelle Akimbo 11 years ago

I do agree that Afica should make up its own mind uninfluenced from the west, but you are very wrong about cannabis.

Cannabis can empower the poor, it gives them a cheap source of vital medicine and nutrition, building mat ...
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I do agree that Afica should make up its own mind uninfluenced from the west, but you are very wrong about cannabis.

Cannabis can empower the poor, it gives them a cheap source of vital medicine and nutrition, building materials, fuel, cooking oil and much much more. Everyone can grow it and therefore it cannot be controlled by big business or government.

In short it could help save Africa, but in doing so obliterate the profits of so many businesses and governments.

I hope, sir, that you are are more interested in the well being of your fellow man than you are in personal gain because when you check the facts, anyone who opposes cannabis should be treated with a healthy dose of scepticism regarding their true motives.
syncopa 11 years ago

your own words: "alcohol ... caused 2 million arrests in the US last year, compared with 1.6 million arrests for all illegal drugs" So alcohol is more of a problem,neh? yet it is legal!

your own words: "alcohol ... caused 2 million arrests in the US last year, compared with 1.6 million arrests for all illegal drugs" So alcohol is more of a problem,neh? yet it is legal!
Atugabiig 11 years ago

Brilliant article.
Let's ignore this douche - Akrasi Sarpong.

Brilliant article.
Let's ignore this douche - Akrasi Sarpong.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 11 years ago

In this article, Dr. Arthur Kennedy does not offer any compelling reason for the criminalization of marijuana, or any drug for that matter. That drug is not different from any other , insofar as it has its positive and negat ...
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In this article, Dr. Arthur Kennedy does not offer any compelling reason for the criminalization of marijuana, or any drug for that matter. That drug is not different from any other , insofar as it has its positive and negative sides. Thus it does not make sense to fill our prisons with people whose only crime is that they decided to go high
and have some fun, while real criminals walk about in broad daylight. There is nothing to show for a century of fight against any drug, and there is no evidence that decriminalization will lead to increased use of drugs. The stupid notion of alcohol prohibition should have taught us a lesson not to try to stop anybody from doing any drugs. Anybody that decides to do drug will find a way to do it, and it is costly to him and the whole society if the drug is illegal. Legalization, taxation and regulation are the ways to approach the issue and make it a win-win for everybody.
The most stupid policy in this world is this so-called war on drugs. It is dangerously expensive, wasteful, destructive, distractive and unwinnable. It is just making the drug barons super-rich by hiking the drug prices while impoverishing everybody else!
kk 11 years ago

besides marijuana has so many legal benefits

besides marijuana has so many legal benefits

Santana 11 years ago

Foolish comment! Don't we have our hands full with thousands of mad people roaming the streets? Some of you sit in the comfort of your homes and talk by heart. Arthur K, don't mind this so called doctor SAS.

Foolish comment! Don't we have our hands full with thousands of mad people roaming the streets? Some of you sit in the comfort of your homes and talk by heart. Arthur K, don't mind this so called doctor SAS.
MENSAH 11 years ago

If you want to usher in to CANAAN,one has to hate EGYPT.

Africa doesn't need these:
Legalization of MARIJUANA,GAY RIGHTS/HOMOSEXUALITY,CHILD PORNOGRAPHY etc.
The fact that Ghana has not been able to control MARIJUANA USA ...
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If you want to usher in to CANAAN,one has to hate EGYPT.

Africa doesn't need these:
Legalization of MARIJUANA,GAY RIGHTS/HOMOSEXUALITY,CHILD PORNOGRAPHY etc.
The fact that Ghana has not been able to control MARIJUANA USAGE & TRAFFICKING,doesn't mean we should legalize it.
That is a very good point,the writer made.
If Akrasi Sarpong has failed Ghana,we should rather kick him out of his post.
WE DON'T NEED SUCH BULLSHIT IN OUR SOCIETY,THAT IS ALREADY FILLED WITH BRIBERY & CORRUPTION,PROSTITUTION,HOMOXEXUALITY and array of social vices.
It's about time we differentiated the right from the wrong,the weighty from the trivial and the strategic from the tactical:

THE SHEEP FROM THE GOATS.

The Ghana I knew,from time immemorial, was devoid of such bad social vices,and has to be purged but not entertained,nurtured,fertilized,out of it.
Women smokers were tagged as prostitutes,but not today.
ISN'T THAT ALONE SAD AND SCARY?
DRAGGA 11 years ago

I hate the hypocitical silence over cigarate and alcohol legality at the detriment of wee despite their surplus of harzards. I stand to be challenged on my observation that most perplexed wee smokers add cigarate and alcohol ...
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I hate the hypocitical silence over cigarate and alcohol legality at the detriment of wee despite their surplus of harzards. I stand to be challenged on my observation that most perplexed wee smokers add cigarate and alcohol, and smoke the wee unecessarily.
I am convinced that the debate should rather be of abuse and not just use; thus the need for a difinition of their abuse.
Sakyimo 11 years ago

"It is the gate-way drug to many other drugs of addiction and its use leads to impairments that fuel increases in crime, accidents and social ills."

Plse check with these multi-millionaires who continue to thrive, and once ...
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"It is the gate-way drug to many other drugs of addiction and its use leads to impairments that fuel increases in crime, accidents and social ills."

Plse check with these multi-millionaires who continue to thrive, and once actively used marijuana: ex-Beatles Sir Paul, Mick Jagger, Bill Clinton, Madonna, Mike Tyson, Prez Obama!!
Seth Mifetu. 11 years ago

Well said Mr. Kobina Kennedy, I am on you side but people who are for the motion to legalize marijuana will also have something to say and when their saying it, I pray they avoid insult and respect our views much as we will r ...
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Well said Mr. Kobina Kennedy, I am on you side but people who are for the motion to legalize marijuana will also have something to say and when their saying it, I pray they avoid insult and respect our views much as we will respect theirs. That is democracy, lets disagree and agree. Divided we fall, together we stand. Mr. Kennedy, you have said it all and what I will like to add is, do Mr, Akrasi Sarpong have the right statistics on marijuana users? If few people are using it doesn't mean we should legalize it. Legalizing it doesn't mean only "generating revenue" for the country. It also means exposing and making the psycho-medicine available for every one use. And its effect we all know, will become uncontrollable. We can't afford to emulate America on this issue. America have a system that checks and control this psycho-medicine so that only those who needs them for medical purposes gets it, and even that, there are few bad ones who are still able to beat the system. Lets compare Ghana, are we capable of checking and controlling marijuana should we legalize it? Do Ghana have records of people who grow marijuana and those who will becoming in to this business to pay tax to the government should marijuana be legalized? We are only going to invites another "galamsey" that will make the government run after illegal marijuana farmers. The whole thing will become backyard garden that people will grow marijuana at their backyard and be selling to the customers because this is a venture that have the market on the street. There will therefore be no revenue generation from this. Rather puts pressure on our inadequate psychiatric hospitals, accident and emergency wards. Please lets us safe the future of our children, for they are the nation of tomorrow, according to Torgbui Sri of the Anlo's. God Bless Ghana.
Whatever 11 years ago

I love it

I love it
Fidey Afram Plains Tease 11 years ago

Ghana is not ready to host lunatics on the streets if not legalizing it will not be a problem

Ghana is not ready to host lunatics on the streets if not legalizing it will not be a problem
CELEBRIMS 11 years ago

thumbs up dear

thumbs up dear
AGBELI GORGORDUTOR 11 years ago

ALL Y'ALL ANTI HERB ZEALOTS ARE TRIPPING MARIJUANA AINT KILLED NOBODY CIGARRETTES DO I DONT GET DRUNK ON MARIJUANA AND KILL PEOPLE IN ROAD ACCIDENTS AS FOR THE CALUMNY THAT WEEDSMOKING DRIVES YOU CRAZY IT IS LUDICROUS PRIMA F ...
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ALL Y'ALL ANTI HERB ZEALOTS ARE TRIPPING MARIJUANA AINT KILLED NOBODY CIGARRETTES DO I DONT GET DRUNK ON MARIJUANA AND KILL PEOPLE IN ROAD ACCIDENTS AS FOR THE CALUMNY THAT WEEDSMOKING DRIVES YOU CRAZY IT IS LUDICROUS PRIMA FACIE THEY LOCK PEOPLE UP AT PANTANG OR ASYLUM DOWN DOPE THEM UP WITH MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF LOMOTIL AND OTHER DANGEROUS PHAMARCEUTICALS ALL THE WHILE ON STRAITJACKETS THEMN WHWEN THEY ARE RELEASED TO THE STREETS AND THEY HAPPEN TO USE CANNABIS AS A PALLIATIVE IGNORANT MUGWUMPS SAY IT IS THE CANNABIS THAT HAS LOBOTOMIZED11 THEM WAKE UP LEGALIZE THE PLANT REGULATE AND TAX IT. FUND RESEARCH ON IT RIGHT THE CRIMINALIZATION OF CANNABIS IS ONE OF THE MYRIAD REASONS THAT DRIVE CORRUPTION IN THE POLICE AND SECURITY SERVICES. FROM TIME IMEMERIOAL THE KOTI KNOW ALL THE GANJA BASES AND ROUTINELY 'TAX' WEED ENTREPENEURS IF YOU DONT PAY YOU GET JAILED AND MAYBE BEATEN. SUCH A TRAVESTY

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