Just recently the governor of Nairobi County Mike Sonko urged allied MPs to push the legalisation of bhang in memory of the late Kibra MP Ken Okoth.
This comes after the other day Matiangi called someone who had applied for a license to operate a medicinal marijuana factory a lunatic. Does he know that the best pain killers are derived from narcotics?
Does he know that most of today’s greatest inventions were created by people thought to be lunatics? The first person who thought of wireless telephony (what you use now as mobile phones) was told he was mad to imagine communication without a direct line. The first guys to build a flying machine were dismissed many times as lazy dreamers.
Pethidine, Morphine, DF 118 (all synthetic opioids) are available in hospitals and are actually cheap to buy but due to tough regulations, no one can buy them freely. The keyword is regulations.
Instead of dismissing issues because of personal or religious reasons, a good leader must analyse them critically first.
Now the truth is here with us, Bangi is medicine. Okoth died trying to push for it to be legalized. Sonko is fighting for the same. Uhuru is heading to Jamaica.
The news has garnered a response from Kenyans who have had their views and opinions aired.
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