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Anyone else grow up thinking weed = ruined lives, and then find out as an adult it’s like ohhh wait,… it’s actually kind of amazing?

So I grew up around addiction, I have seen it up close,grown men getting completely dumbed down by it, losing themselves. Because of that, the perception that weed was evil was always in my head.

Fast forward to now and I actually tried it properly for the first time in a while, and man… it’s peaceful????? Like you could be stressed, mind all foggy, and it just kind of untangles you. First hit or two in and I already feel this little wave of happiness hit, and after that I just feel better. You’re not necessarily numb or checked out, just genuinelyyy betterr. Bonus point if you’re doing it with someone you fw. I’m not saying what I grew up seeing wasn’t real, because it absolutely was. But I think we’re quick to paint it as this one-note evil when it’s also been the thing that helped people actually function again, or get unstuck from stuff they’d been stuck in.
Not trying to start a whole debate in the comments, I just wanted to put this out there. If anyone’s had a similar change of heart, or weed’s genuinely helped you in your work or personal life, I’d love to hear it.

Also, does anyone have a go-to local stuff for the dry throat/cottonmouth thing that lingers a day or two after smoking? Trying to figure out what actually gets rid of it, or stops it from happening in the first place.

For those who have tried shrooms how different are they from weed, in terms of feeling?

Friends keep telling me how basic food is expensive in Ghana. I blame the ministry of agriculture but I'm only concerned about the solution.

We can complete food sufficiency at low prices in 2 years with an investment of $500million. Yes, an investment, which will return a profit to government. Not a cost that will just evaporate into the blackhole of opaque activity at the ministry.

I'll be brief.

1. Ghana produces about 500 agric degree holders each year.

We empower 5000 graduates to start

500 one million dollar farms across the country. (10 graduates per farm)

2. Each farm is dedicated to production, storage processing and marketing of essential staples including maize, rice tubers, plantain, tomatoes, fish, poultry, pigs,goats,cattle. Dairy

3. The graduates will decide and employ the best global practices and cutting edge science without the need for supervision.

4. The loans will be paid back after 5 years and ownership will revert to the graduates. They won't squander their best opportunity to become millionaires in 5 years.

5. Government retains a minority share and earns profits and dividends.

I am an agriculture graduate and I know this will work.

Problem solved. We are currently wasting billions of dollars on projects that have little impact on the economy.

For me sometimes I see telecel as a 3g network oo super slow

I can play any online game because my network will messup and I will lose

What about MTN and others are they fast

Hi all - we are from the US and just spent two weeks in Ghana, and wanted to share a couple of the fun things we did in Accra that weren't in our guidebooks.

1. +233 Jazz Club - this was a really fun way to see live music, they had friendly service and good food and drinks.
2. Gold Coast Cooking Class - had a great experience in Accra with this cooking class. Highly recommend if you're traveling in Accra and would like a fun and local cultural experience! Excellent host shares her home and knowledge. Find her on Google Maps.
3. Fantasy Coffins - this was in our guidebooks but was a little trickier to find than expected. The best one was Erico Carpentry shop (on Google Maps), as they had the most interesting array, but the young man at Kane Kwei Carpentry Workshop (labeled "Billy's Workshop" on Google Maps for some reason) was incredibly friendly and gave us a great overview of the history of this tradition. He is the grandson of Kane Kwei, the original creator of these coffins according to what we were told and read. We took a Bolt out and then a TroTro back to Accra.

That's all! As out of country travelers we always like to share some of our favorite things. I will add that in general, having traveled to over 30 countries, we genuinely found the people and culture in Ghana to be probably the warmest and most welcoming we've ever experienced! We also visited Eastern Volta, Kwahu, and Kumasi.

For years now I’ve been thinking about petitioning parliament to pass a law requiring job postings to come with pay range. What do people think about this and how would we go about it? Anyone interested in joining a movement to fight for this?

My partner has a really nice car and while stuck in traffic a guy just walks up to the window and says his guys are behind us so we have to give him money. He kept repeating that they’re from Nima like it was relevant. I’ve never experienced such a thing.

Every day I’m given a reason to never return to this country.

So I have some old photos from some years ago, when I created my Gmail account and it seems my gallery has been syncing with Google Photos since that time (9 years ago) till now.

However, once in a while, I see a notification about some of these memories with some AI-generated captions which has started to make me feel uncomfortable.

Example: I have a pic from 2017/18 where I did a Dybala goal celebration hand gesture and I have been tagged with 'Big Blockbuster: Starring a local legend'. I mean yeah, it's cool to receive some praise but how did it even come up with such a remark for that photo as well as being able to determine which remarks fit every photo, unless our photos are being fed into a model to determine which caption would suit every pic.

Long story short, if anybody knows any way to deactivate this, please let me know. Google has been really shady with the way they have been using our data of late. The privacy policy is intentionally voluminous and the font size is very small, making it unappealing to even want to read anything before you sign up for it.

I'm a 20M and I'm wondering why anytime I'm walking on the street and any lady is passing by she usually looks at my groin area. Am i the only one that this happens to or it is common. And why does that happen.

I am in discussions with a US company that will be off shoring IT support to Ghana. The job entails supervising that site. I will be based in Spain and will travel to Ghana periodically . I will probably stay a week.

Just wanted to get any feedback or opinions.

Thanks

Like the title says, how does the a Ghanaian citizen or business acquire a government contract?

Is there an online website or forum with a list of available contracts?

Many countries banned it for children up to 18. I genuinely think that’s too high. If I had kids, I’d allow them to use it at 13, but that’s just my opinion.

I hope the list below makes it clear on the lies of Jayden Arday .

Professor Jason Arday's claims:

- To have completed his PhD in 2½ years while working
full-time and living with a brain tumour.

- To have had a stroke immediately after graduating, causing him to lose his memory of working on his PhD.

-To have run 30 marathons in 35 days, and 600 miles in six days, making him one of the best endurance athletes of our time. This was completed whilst experiencing an epileptic fit and fracture.

- To have been threatened on campus at knifepoint before examining a PhD student, despite no police report or contemporaneous report to Cambridge staff ever being documented.

- To have had a pig's head sent to his family home, an incident for which no independent evidence or police record has been identified.

- To have appeared in the Seven Up documentary series, despite no record of his participation in any instalment of the program.

- To have raised £5.5 million for charity.

- To have been offered £1.5 million for his forthcoming book

-To have played both snooker and football at
professional level.

-To have been told by multiple career advisers that he would end up living in a care home because of his autism diagnosis.

- To sleep only two hours per night.

- To have completed two masters despite only listing one on his academic portfolio. One of these masters was in psychodynamic counselling at Birkbeck College which would mean he is an accredited psychotherapist.

- To have been a visiting lecturer at Ohio State University despite no records of this.

- To have been a visiting lecturer at Glasgow University despite no records of this.

- To have been a visiting lecturer at Nelson Mandela University despite no records of this.

- To have been told by 'Sam' his colleague at Waitrose that he would scale Mount Everest, and a local aid worker in Brazil that he was "destined to do great things" and
"destined for very sad and difficult things".

- To have had only 1 hour of supervision during the entirety of his PhD.

- To have published a book called Being Young, Black and Male: Challenging the Dominant Discourse.

- To have installed water points in South America and West Africa with the charity WaterAid, despite the charity not sending volunteers abroad.

- To have been assaulted by his speech and language therapist, who allegedly shook him for not making progress.

- To have had a mother who was mugged at knifepoint while heavily pregnant with him.

- To have been named Jason after Jason and the Argonauts.

- To have survived a severe car crash that left him in a three-month coma, with doctors suggesting life-support withdrawal.

- To have been mugged and beaten in his late teens, developing epilepsy as a consequence of this, then later becoming lecturer and godfather to two of the perpetrators.

- To have neither plagiarised his thesis or nor fabricated his qualitative interviews.

- To have been a Labour candidate in a general election. (apparently true!).

So the folks who are claiming he was receiving pressure simply because of racism, I ask that you reevaluate. That is not the case.

This man is a pathological liar and lied through his entire life deliberately. He knew that and could not withstand the pressure of it all crumbling down. That’s it. Stop always resulting to racism. It’s will inevitably blind you from the bigger picture. Be blessed.