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Hohoe treats Hohoe Municipal District, in the Volta Region of Ghana, as a cannabis growing area. It covers the land the sources describe, the farms the police have destroyed there and the growers interviewed in 2024. Ghana's law on cannabis and the national picture are treated at Ghana.

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Why Hohoe is a growing area

• Dovlo, Agyei, Dwomoh and Manu (2026) interviewed 14 people growing cannabis illegally in Hohoe Municipality in May and June 2024; every participant had grown it there for at least a year. The study calls the municipality a major cannabis-growing hub of the Volta Region.
• The Ghana News Agency (2007) reports police uprooting suspected cannabis on five farms at Gbi-Akplamafu, near Alavanyo-Abenyinase, in what was then Hohoe District.
• The Ghanaian Times (via MyJoyOnline, 8 April 2009) reports an 80-acre plantation destroyed at Kpota, near Akolamafu, in Hohoe Municipality. MyJoyOnline (21 April 2009) reports death threats to the Hohoe police after they destroyed an 85-acre farm.
• The Ghana News Agency (via GhanaWeb, 19 March 2015) reports about 50 of an estimated 150 acres of cannabis destroyed at Avega, near Ando, along the River Dayi, in Hohoe Municipality.
• The status is Active: the 2009 and 2015 reports and the 2024 interviews all record growing since 2000. The destruction of farms does not change the status, since no source says that growing has ended.

Extent and border

• No source read for this page draws a boundary round the growing area. The study names the municipality as a whole; the police reports name Gbi-Akplamafu, Kpota near Akolamafu and Avega near Ando.
• The map border is approximate. It is drawn on the present Hohoe Municipal District, which has lost Afadzato South District (2012) and Guan District (2020) since the district was formed. The border covers about 330 km²; the infobox area is rounded from it. The municipal assembly gives the municipality's area as 40,563 hectares (about 406 km²), a larger figure that may date from before the 2020 change.
• Gbi-Akplamafu, Alavanyo-Abenyinase (Alavanyo Abehenase on the map), Gbi Wegbe and the town of Hohoe fall inside the border. Kpota and Avega could not be placed on a map, and Akolamafu may be another spelling of Akplamafu. A hamlet called Fodome Ando lies inside the border; whether it is the Ando of the 2015 report is not confirmed. The 2009 and 2015 reports place both farms in Hohoe Municipality.
• Two reports of farms just outside the border are not counted here. In February 2022 a team led by the Narcotics Control Commission destroyed about 40 acres of cannabis at Liati Dafornu, in Afadzato South District (Citinewsroom, 4 February 2022). In July 2026 police from Ho destroyed two plantations covering about eight acres at Peki-Dzake, in South Dayi District (Graphic Online, 5 September 2026).
• The 85-acre farm of April 2009 is not placed in the report beyond the Hohoe police district. Whether it is the 80-acre plantation at Kpota reported earlier that month is not clear from the two reports; the article gives both without counting them as one or two farms.

Sources

• Dovlo et al. (2026). Read in full in Europe PMC (PMC13272860). The growers' statements are given in the article as their own. Two points in the study's introduction were checked against its references:
  • The "hub" sentence cites a 3News report of April 2025 (read). It reports 61 sacks of cannabis burnt at a refuse site at Gbi Wegbe under a court order; it does not say where the cannabis was grown. The article gives the burning as an enforcement event, not as a farm.
  • The sentence naming the Western, Brong Ahafo, Ashanti and Volta regions as the main growing regions cites an article on cannabis in Iran (its reference 17). The claim is not used here. The same four regions are named for 2006 by a UNODC source cited on the Ghana page.
• The Narcotics Control Board ranking (2016). Read in GhanaWeb's copy of a 3News report. It ranks the Volta Region as a whole; it says nothing of Hohoe. The same report gives 2014 figures for drug users by region in which the Volta Region is not first; the ranking for use and cultivation is the board's statement as reported.
• The 1990s trader. The ranking of "taffeta" comes from one trader interviewed for The Drug Nexus in Africa (1999), who was well informed about the south. It describes the Volta Region, not Hohoe.
• Geography. The district's history, its distance from Ho, the River Dayi and the main crops come from the Hohoe Municipal Assembly's composite budget for 2026–2029 (pp. 4, 6, 10). The share of households farming comes from Dovlo et al., who cite the 2021 census.
• Police reports. The allegation that foreign nationals were financing cultivation (2009) is the divisional commander's, and the account of farm owners living in Accra is that of Joy FM's Volta correspondent; both are attributed in the article. The names of people arrested are not used.

Sources not used

• A Peace FM copy of the 2015 report (March 2015) no longer opens. The Ghana News Agency text in GhanaWeb was used instead.
• A Mail & Guardian report of 31 December 2001 (Sapa-DPA) on a 100-acre farm destroyed in the Volta Region names no place below the region.
• The Ghana Statistical Service's district analytical report for Hohoe (2014) could not be opened.