Eight companies have applied for licences to cultivate industrial cannabis in Ghana, the Minister of the Interior, Alhaji Muntaka Mohammed Mubarak, has disclosed.
He said the applications are being processed under Ghana’s legal framework, which permits only the cultivation of cannabis containing no more than 0.3 percent tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) for industrial and medicinal purposes.
Addressing Parliament’s Assurances Committee, the Minister stressed that the legalisation of industrial cannabis does not allow unrestricted cultivation or recreational use of the plant.
He explained that the Ministry of the Interior, in collaboration with the Narcotics Control Commission, conducted 2,170 public sensitisation programmes, including radio campaigns, in 2025, reaching an estimated 500,000 people nationwide.
According to him, the education campaign also involved the establishment of drug awareness clubs in schools to strengthen preventive education on narcotics and discourage illegal drug cultivation and abuse.
Alhaji Muntaka Mubarak further announced plans to deploy narcotics intelligence officers across all 261 Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) to strengthen enforcement and monitoring.
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He noted that the Narcotics Control Commission currently operates offices in 66 MMDAs, with plans to expand nationwide over the next five to seven years.
Ghana’s industrial cannabis regime is governed by the Narcotics Control Commission (Amendment) Act, 2023 (Act 1100) and the Narcotics Control Commission Regulations, 2023 (L.I. 2475), which allow the licensed cultivation of cannabis with a THC content of not more than 0.3 percent for approved industrial and medicinal purposes.
