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Weed makes capsules, car parts, painkillers and even plastics

In medicine, Hemp is used in manufacture of drugs to treat arthritis, asthma, cough and warts. [Courtesy]

Developed countries are falling over each other to legalise marijuana and its sister-Industrial Hemp. Kenya has a Bill laying eggs in Parliament over legalising the same. While marijuana and Hemp are from the same cannabis family, they’re different: weed is a recreational, intoxicating substance, Hemp, on the other end of the joint, is a sub-species of the cannabis plant with benefits of industrial proportions. 

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