The commission's report, Not Just in Transit, called on West African states to decriminalise possession for personal use, arguing that criminalising drug use worsens health and social problems, burdens the justice system and feeds corruption. At the time most laws in the region treated possession or use as a crime, with up to 25 years in Nigeria, 20 in Togo and at least five in Ghana.[1]
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