An officer of the Narcotics Control
Board (NACOB) has stated that Ghana
is the highest consumer of marijuana
in Africa.
Daniel Akwasi Amankwa, who is the
Divisional Supervisor for Demand
Education of NACOB said, the country
is ranked 3rd in the world.
According to him, Ghana's ranking
was captured in a United Nations
report a couple of years ago.
Mr. Amankwa made this known at the
opening of a two-day forum on non-
custodial sentencing in Ghana on
Thursday, October 30, at the Ghana
Institute of Management and Public
Administration (GIMPA).
Mr Amankwa was making a case for a
drug court system in Ghana,
stressing that the United States of
America (USA), once a leading
consumer of drugs, has been
successful in implementing that
system.
“Besides, there are over 20 countries
including Australia and New Zealand
which has adopted the drug court
system,” he said.
He advocated the piloting of that
system in Ghana in order to reduce
the high number of marijuana
consumers in the country.
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