{"id":36028,"date":"2023-07-14T16:24:08","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T16:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=36028"},"modified":"2023-07-14T16:24:18","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T16:24:18","slug":"nacoc-bill-john-dumelo-welcomes-decriminalisation-of-the-cultivation-of-cannabis-for-medicinal-purposes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/07\/14\/nacoc-bill-john-dumelo-welcomes-decriminalisation-of-the-cultivation-of-cannabis-for-medicinal-purposes\/","title":{"rendered":"NACOC bill: John Dumelo welcomes decriminalisation of the cultivation of cannabis for medicinal purposes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Actor-turned-politician, John Dumelo has reacted to the passage of the Narcotics Control Commission Bill, 2023 into law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This will result in the decriminalisation of the cultivation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/07\/12\/parliament-passes-nacoc-bill-granting-licenses-for-cannabis-cultivation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Parliament Passes NACOC Bill Granting Licenses For Cannabis Cultivation\">cannabis<\/a> for medicinal and industrial purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Dumelo, in a post on Twitter, called this decision a defining moment in Ghana\u2019s history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He noted that as a farmer he is excited to add the cultivation of cannabis to his numerous farming venture, which includes the cultivation of ginger, tubers, grains and poultry farming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m very excited Parliament has passed the Narcotics Control Commission Amendment Bill 2023, which seeks to decriminalize the cultivation of cannabis for medicinal and industrial purposes. This is a defining moment in Ghana\u2019s history,\u201d Mr Dumelo wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He added \u201cas a farmer, adding the cultivation of cannabis to my portfolio for medicinal industrial purposes is definitely something I\u2019m looking forward to. God bless Ghana.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This comes after Parliament, on Wednesday, passed the <a href=\"http:\/\/myjoyonline.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Narcotics Control Commission Bill<\/a>, 2023 into law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The passing grants the Interior Ministry authority to issue licences for the cultivation of cannabis which has not more than 0.3% utility content on dry weight spaces for industrial or medicinal purposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor-turned-politician, John Dumelo has reacted to the passage of the Narcotics Control Commission Bill, 2023 into law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":36030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[10618,11941,4778,8128,4840,192,13330,1445,6232,6566,485,10342,1198,12566,5350,7728,3954],"class_list":["post-36028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-actor","tag-bill","tag-bless","tag-cannabis","tag-farming","tag-ghana","tag-ginger","tag-god","tag-grains","tag-grants","tag-john-dumelo","tag-law","tag-parliament","tag-poultry","tag-twitter","tag-utility","tag-will"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}