With the passage of a new narcotics control law in Ghana to deal with limited-content of the cultivation of cannabis for industrial and medicinal purposes, and with the announcement by President of South Africa, His Excellency Cyril Ramaphosa, in his State of the Nation’s Address (SONA) in 2020 where he stated that the next 12 months will see the commercial use of hemp and cannabis in South Africa, both countries bring light on others in the continent with shared experience in addressing the growing political demands with respect to decriminalization process.