Ghanaian reggae and dance hall recording artist from Wa, Emmanuel Andrews Samini popularly known as Samini and self-acclaimed Ghanaian dancehall king, Shatta Wale, have openly celebrated after the government passed a new narcotics law. 

On Friday- March 20 2020 the country’s Parliament passed into law the Narcotics Control Commission Bill, 2019. The law now makes the country’s Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) a Commission with enhanced powers to oversee the industrial use of some narcotic substances.

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Shatta Wale and Samini were quick to express their excitement on social media, with each claiming to employ the other. With Shatta Wale first to react, claiming that the “high grade" is about to create employment for people at long last. 

Samini was quick to remind Shatta that he is the employment minister when it comes to weed, and that it is he who should not forget him when he starts to employ for his weed farm.

The parliament passed the bill on Friday evening to treat drug dependence as a public health issue rather than focusing on law enforcement, incarceration, punishment and repression. It said:

"The fundamental goal of drug policies should be to improve the health, safety, security and socio-economic well-being of people by adopting appropriate measures to combat illicit crop cultivation and use of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, as well as its associated substance,"