GHexpat

In 2017 Ghana Post , i.e. Ghana's national postal service, launched an initiative known as GhanaPostGPS .  The system is more or less based on Google Maps .  And all things considered, I guess the easiest way to describe it is as being the same as Google Maps, i.e. online users being able to look up and find distinct locations in the country using a similar type of layout. But there are two major difference, one positive and one negative, if you will.  The positive is that respective Ghanaian locations are assigned what is known as a digital address.  From what I've seen, they tend to be between 11 and 12 digits' long, and that format is exponentially simpler and easier to share than a Google Maps' URL. A GhanaPostGPS (digital) address is formatted like the one pictured in the image above. The downside is that, unlike Google Maps, with GhanaPostGPS for the most part you cannot search for locations by name.  This is more or less understandable, because it is mean...

A homey recently sent me pics of marijuana being openly sold and used on the street in the Bronx , and I was in a state of shock. My homey Seriez Premiere recently took a trip up to New York City and sent a me couple of pics which verified what I've reading about a lot in the New York Post of late, that marijuana has indeed been legalized in the Big Apple, and New Yorkers are out and about, smoking freely. THE 20TH CENTURY NYC WEED SCENE As someone who grew up in NYC but hasn't been there for a long time since, it's difficult to fathom this.  When I was a child, virtually everyone I knew who smoked weed were known outlaws.  I only had one homey, this dude named Dale , who I knew of that blazed but wasn't a bad boy.  He's the one who put me on to Stevie Wonder , who went on to become my favorite musician. One day I was at his crib, and, being the unusual youngster that he was, Dale was listening to Songs in the Key of Life while smoking away, which was the first ...