An intriguing story of nuns from the United States who make north of Ksh110 million (USD1 million) per year dealing in bhang has pricked Kenyans' hearts.
The story of the nuns, who were seen openly smoking the product that is still banned in Kenya, was shared widely across major social media platforms.
Known as sisters of the valley, the nuns' group pride themselves in growing marijuana in California and making medicinal by-products.
In a past documentary, the team of sisters divulged that they bonded through the trade of weed, which was legalised in the State of California in 1996.
"We are a group of women who live together, work together and pray together. We grow cannabis. We are advocates for the cannabis plant," stated one of the sisters.
The nuns, who are not affiliated with the Catholic Church, explained that they sell the products worldwide and use the proceeds to advance their activism work in advocating for the plant frowned upon by many governments across the globe.
"Cannabis actually has done a lot for us, for every individual sister here and it has brought us all together. We were basically throwaway women. The world didn't care about us.
"Each one of us has been homeless at some point in the recent past. We have had a really hard time. We have all been called by the plant because it has healed each one of us or people we know," she added.
The group was first set up in 2015 by one of its members known as Sister Kate who quit her corporate life and her marriage over irreconcilable differences.
According to the Ladbible, Sister Kate Meeusen found out that her husband was a bigamist and stealing from her. She then fled with her children to start farming marijuana which has medicinal capabilities to treat cancer.
"We don't like the white man rule. Farm people are very slow to adapt to new ideas. People are stuck in the 1950s with their ideas towards the cannabis plant for medicinal use
"We have a 100 percent success rate in curing people of their addictions. Admittedly we don't have a huge sample size; we worked with eight people who were addicted to either alcohol, tobacco or meth, but they all got better," stated Sister Kate.
Bhang use in Kenya is now in vogue after Presidential candidate George Wajackoyah pledged to legalise commercialization of the substance and use its proceeds to settle Kenya's foreign debt.
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