Pubdate: Mon, 01 Apr 2002
Source: East African Standard, The (Kenya)
Copyright: 2002 The East African Standard
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Author: William Onyango
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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.
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