Let’s just be honest, bangi is good for health

Bangi was not criminalised because of sound science, but because the science was lacking. Photo: Courtesy

Bhang or bangi, saved the life of a little girl called Charlotte Figi from Colorado, USA. Her parents had tried every possible conventional remedy prescribed by doctors to treat the more than 300 seizures she was experiencing every day.

Nothing worked. But bangi did. Charlotte was not 100 per cent cured, but her seizures reduced from thousands a week to just about two in seven days, as captured in CNN’s Dr Sanjay Gupta’s documentary, Weed. Isn’t that remarkable?