{"id":1155630,"date":"2022-07-22T00:16:32","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T00:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/22\/i-smoked-weed-amakye-dede\/"},"modified":"2022-07-22T00:16:32","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T00:16:32","slug":"i-smoked-weed-amakye-dede","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/22\/i-smoked-weed-amakye-dede\/","title":{"rendered":"I Smoked Weed- Amakye Dede"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Veteran highlife musician, Amakye Dede has confessed to once using marijuana also known as weed before but was quick to add that he didn\u2019t like it.<br \/>Speaking in an interview with Nana Aba Anamoah on GHone TV, he said \u201cYeah I tried weed before but I didn\u2019t like it.\u201d<br \/>The statement presupposes that he currently doesn\u2019t smoke weed, bringing to an end wild speculations that he does smoke weed.<br \/>However, he said he does not see anything wrong with smoking the plant.<br \/>According to him, despite the perception attached to smoking marijuana it does not make one a bad person and interestingly urged musicians to smoke it.<br \/>\u201cIf you smoke weed you are not a bad person. Yeah, musicians should smoke it before their performance because it\u2019s extra energetic,\u201d he indicated.<br \/>He has also supported calls for the legalisation of the substance, saying that if the government legalises weed \u201cit would be better.\u201d<br \/>\u201cYou see now in America and parts of Germany and Amsterdam, they have legalised it and they are earning money from it. So if somebody tells you that Ghanaians should legalise the weed I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a problem,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Veteran highlife musician, Amakye Dede has confessed to once using marijuana also known as weed before but was quick to add that he didn\u2019t like it.Speaking in an interview with Nana Aba Anamoah on GHone TV, he said \u201cYeah I tried weed before but I didn\u2019t like it.\u201dThe statement presupposes that he currently doesn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1155634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[9957,1307,11901,4154],"class_list":["post-1155630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-amakye","tag-dede","tag-smoked","tag-weed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1155630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1155630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1155630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1155630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}