General News of Tuesday, 27 June 2017Source: classfmonline.comNo proof Ghana leads marijuana use - SarpongAkrasi Sarpong, former Executive Secretary of the Narcotics Control BoardA former Executive Secretary of the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB), Akrasi Sarpong, has challenged a UN report that Ghana is the highest consumer of cannabis in Africa. The report also said Ghana was the third highest consumer of marijuana in the world. But speaking on the Executive Breakfast Show (EBS) on Class91.3FM on Tuesday 27 June, Mr Sarpong said there has been no survey to back the UN finding. First of all, neither the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) nor ECOWAS nor NACOB can tell any Ghanaian anywhere that there has been a baseline survey on drug use in Ghana. It has been in NACOB’s budget ever since 2005, but there has been no baseline survey.

Source: GhanaWeb June 27, 2017 09:22 UTC