CANNABIS GIVEN AS PAIN KILLER

Scientists have discovered medicinal property in cannabis sativa and the
prohibited drug is now prescribed as a pain killer, a Nairobi university
don has said.

Prof. James Ochanda, head of Bio-Technology Department at the University of
Nairobi, told journalists in Kisumu that UK scientists have found medicinal
properties in bhang and have developed it into the powerful painkiller, Moffin.

He said the scientists remove the narcotic genes which addict users before
turning it into a pain killer.

Prof. Ochanda, who also heads African Bio-Technology Stake-holders Forum
(ABSF), an NGO registered last year, said that large farms are being set
aside in the UK for growing of bhang for medicinal purposes.

Moffin, he explained, is sprayed into the mouths of patients as a pain killer.