Cannabis is said to have been used, since as far back as 4000 BC to treat various ailments according to ancient Chinese and African records. While some cannabis farmers are complaining of stringent legal framework and less profits, cannabis medicine is believed to be the future medicine if carefully formulated and designed.

The Medicines Control Association of Zimbabwe has revealed that the country has started licensing a few pharmaceutical companies to manufacture cannabis drugs a few years after the country issued permits to 60 farmers by dens, Zimbabwe was one of the first African countries to allow production of cannabis. Although the requisite started from $50 000 to as much as $1 million for investors a few years after the first core production meant for export, farmers started complaining of heavy losses in a highly speculative industry.

--ChannelAfrica/JohnCassim --