Army won't be cowed: Grenadiers' slow march and marijuana don't go together

Physical checkup for potential KDF candidates at Migori sports ground in 2018. (File, Standard)

This week, Kenyans on social media laughed themselves senseless, amused that the Kenya Defense Forces (KDF) kicked out 1,500 recruits from army training school for walking into a military establishment with traces of marijuana in their veins.

The army, they giggled, would quickly run out of recruits to train if they insisted on enlisting only marijuana-free lads because, hey, weed smoking is now more widespread than religion among Kenyan youths.